According to my last post, I’ve been to the Burgess Shale twice and on one of those treks volunteered as...

I'm back home now, after my too-much-fun visit with friends who also happen to be California drivers (a sub-sub-species of...

I spent a few hours in the park yesterday with my hiking club, picking up whatever small bits of trash...

It snowed in the mountains of southwest Utah a couple of nights ago. It wasn’t a huge weather system, though...

It's the land of fruits and nuts with a tidal Pacific Ocean shoreline of 3427 miles including small bays and...

Fireweed along Seward Scenic Highway It's been raining since last night. Am I still in Alaska? Did I merely dream...

Since my last post (“Field Tripping,” Oct 20, 2010) I have been doing a bit of thinking (ooh, that’s scary)...

Shields of calcite in Lehman Caves This past week or so I have been pondering quite ponderously how to proceed...

Jeanette "Novarupta Tour Guide to the Stars" Meleen, Robert "Novarupta Ninja Climber" Finer, and last but not least "Novarupta Nina"...

Reading over my last blog entry, I noticed something I had written that would make any self-respecting geologist cringe. I...