A couple of years ago I did a trip through the Southwestern USA but never posted pictures from Bryce Canyon or Zion National Parks. After getting some questions from friends planning a Zion traverse, I thought perhaps it is time to get back to this story.
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One of the things I like to do when in places like Glacier National Park is to take a drive near sunset or sunrise to watch for large animals that come out at this time of day, usually away from human activity. However this trip last week I encountered a bunch of Bighorn sheep in a place I was not expecting, in the middle of the day near the most congested road in this part of the park.
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In April I visited White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. I arrived in the afternoon and went straight to the park after checking into a motel in the town of Alamogordo. It was a windy afternoon. I hiked the first short mile loop trail I came across to get an introduction to the terrain.
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A couple of months ago I took an extended weekend to travel to New Mexico for some hiking and photography.
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After some time on the Big Island of Hawaii, I went to Maui for a few days. I did not stay long enough to see the whole island, so I don’t have a lot of story to tell on this island. But I will share a few pictures.
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Last month I visited Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii. The first day’s visit I was with friends and we stopped at several of the overlooks to see the Kilauea Caldera, overlooks of the Kilauea Iki crater, and a walk through the Thurston Lava tube. At the time, areas of active lava flow were not near access points that would allow visitors up close views.
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I was expecting Death Valley National Park to be all flat desert and sand dunes, and so I was surprised to find much more variety of terrain throughout the park. There were salt flats below sea level next to 11,000 ft mountains, sand dunes, and
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After my stopover at the Guadalupe Mountains last month, I originally was going to check out Big Bend Ranch state park. In this trip I was taking a week and a half to visit some state and national parks for Photography and also to get in some trail runs as part of my Jemez race training. After a long scenic drive I saw the signs said the highway was closed
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A few weeks ago, I took a week and a half vacation touring some state and national parks in the western US began with a stopover in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. To save travel time, I had gotten flights from Austin to
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This picture is from the celebration in D.C. around President Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
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Last March (2008), I took a trip to Big Bend National Park. Just me and my camera.
Once upon a time, before the age of digital cameras (i.e. the late 1990’s), I used to be a regular amateur photographer. Most of my vacations
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I went out to Guadelupe Mountains National Park in west Texas for a weekend of long runs across the park with 25 runners from the Rouge Trail running programs or from HCTR. We drove out on Thursday, leaving at 6:30 am and arriving around 3pm. The first night our cook fixed up a meal with choice of grilled salmon or steak,
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May 4-7, 2006:
Since there are no mountains in Austin, a bunch of participants in the Rogue Pikes Peak Marathon training group took a long weekend trip to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park to do some training runs in terrain more similar to the race course. But this trip had additional meaning for me since the last time I was here, seven years before, that was the wake-up call that was the catalyst to get me started in the marathon training.
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