Cassidy over the Harding Icefield I've never hiked the Harding Icefield Trail in good weather. Neither Cassidy nor Elliott had hiked it at all. So when a window opened in...
Posted by | July 16, 2026
Cassidy, Elliott, and I planned to spend a couple of days backpacking at Hatcher Pass before the climbing team came down for our annual climbing trip. We spent one very...
Posted by | July 14, 2026
Our last day to do something outside before heading back to town, and the weather was finally changing. We didn't quite know what to do with our limited time, with...
Posted by | July 11, 2026
These caves are running out of time. Every year, I follow the trail of dead ice farther up the valley. Each one I find is gone in a handful of...
Posted by | June 26, 2026
Day one of three in the Alaska Range. We followed the Gulkana moraine past where I'd been before, found the season's first saxifrage, and let the trip have no plan...
Posted by | June 23, 2026
Our party at the Windchimes near Mt. Prindle In early June, five of us took off for Nome Creek for an overnight trip to Mt. Prindle in the White Mountain...
Posted by | June 20, 2026
Descending the Granite Tors Trail in mixed snow conditions In late May, I spent a couple of days at the Chena River State Recreation Area with Cassidy, Chenoa, and their...
Posted by | June 16, 2026
The seasonal wetlands pond at Creamer's Field | Prints and Wall Art The light is back. The snow is gone in town, and is quickly disappearing in the mountains. I've...
Posted by | April 9, 2026
A late-season hike on the Savage Alpine Trail in Denali National Park, more snow than usual, great company, and a snow surface covered in wind-sculpted sastrugi and ripples worth stopping...
Posted by | April 7, 2026
In the same morning after humanity sent astronauts around the Moon, a president threatened to erase a civilization. We have to choose which path we're on.
