Glacier National Park View Larger Map Day One Well I was stoked to have finally made it to the edge of Glacier National Park after all these years! This is truly a place of superlatives. Here are just a few facts. Glacier became our eighth national park in 1910 and encompasses over one million […]
ONWARD TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK Or, Go North Young Man (with apologies to Horace Greely) View Larger Map After a day leisurely driving past Lake Yellowstone and through Grand Teton National Park followed by a night in Jackson Hole, the decision was made to continue onward to Glacier National Park. This was about my first […]
Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone is the world’s first national park having been established in 1872 by Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, this was the model not only for the U.S. National Park Service, but for the national parks I recently explored in Costa Rica and much of Latin America. A land of superlatives, it well […]
The Road to Yellowstone National Park Rather than follow the boring interstate through Nevada, I planned this route over US395 and across US20 instead. At 961 miles (Google Maps) some overnight breaks were certain. I stopped in the old mining city of Susanville where I caught US395. First stop, Goose Lake. Why? Because it is […]
Lassen Volcanic National Park The Road Trip has been an American tradition since the end of World War Two. It has been celebrated in song (…get your kicks on Route 66) and extolled in movies and popular culture ever since. After two months home from Latin America and with summer in its full glory, I […]
It had rained for the last several days hiking Hatcher Pass and then Denali NP. However, a clear day dawned for my kayak trip to the Columbia Glacier leaving from Valdez. Once in the kayak I could not help but contemplate how 20 years earlier, this had been the site of the worst man-made ecological […]
After hiking 6-12 miles per day for a week, our group of 14 new friends (including two incredible guides) unanimously decides to spring for two de Havillands for an up close and personal view of the highest summit in North America. The weather graciously cooperated. Tweet