public lands - Lauren Danner

Valles Caldera National Preserve

“Hike until you hit deep snow,” the ranger told us. “Then turn around.” Great advice, unless there is no deep snow.

The Antiquities Act and our national monuments are under attack. Let’s make our voices heard about this threat to public lands.

The promise of a sunny weekend enticed us to load the car and head to the mouth of the mighty Columbia River.

When the world’s longest natural sandspit is two hours from your house, you hike it. Naturally.

Rain was forecast everywhere in western Washington — except one place. So I went there.