Return to the redwoods
Two years ago, a trip to the redwoods helped me change the course of my life. Revisiting in 2018, we marked a different milestone.
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Category: national parks
Posts about national parks, national monuments, and other land managed by the National Park Service.
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Alaska: Kenai Fjords
A rain-soaked cruise through Alaska’s Kenai Fjords gives us a chance to test our wildlife spotting ability and share our findings with fellow passengers. Look, another eagle!
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Alaska: Exit Glacier
Kenai Fjords National Park covers a thousand square miles and has precisely one mile of road. It leads to Exit Glacier and a chance to consider the realities of climate change in a stunning setting.
Books I like national parks
What I’m reading | King Sequoia, by William Tweed
California’s giant sequoias have been the object of fascination and commodification for nearly 200 years. Former park ranger Tweed traces their history In this comprehensive, engaging account.
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Of mountains and mountaineers
Storied climber Fred Beckey died on October 30, felled by congestive heart failure at age 94 after a lifetime relentlessly dedicated to putting up routes on peaks around the world. Both Mr. Adventure and I have longstanding connections to Beckey, Mr. Adventure as a former climber and an admirer and me as an historian of the North Cascades. And last Friday, as we drove through unseasonably early snow over two mountain passes on our way…