This week’s Nature Writing Challenge comes to you with just 20 minutes left to write so you are going to get some pretty amazing pictures instead! The topic is “Where is your favorite gateway town outside America’s public lands and what makes it so great?” Any memorable experiences? Well, if you just finished reading my…
Here we are, another week of the Nature Writing Challenge and the topic is a memorable insect moment on public lands. If you are like me and have spent a fair amount of time on public lands, you have your fair share of insect stories. And I bet is safe to say that most of…
This week on the Nature Writing Challenge, the quest is an elevation gain that inspires adventure. Thinking about this for a short time, I realized that for me that means the side scramble. You know when you have been in a green corridor forever or make it to a pass after slogging it up a…
This week’s topic for the #NatureWritingChallenge is: “How can our Public Lands, either as a whole or an individual park, better recognize and honor the Native history?” My first thought was, “Give it all back.” My second thought was, I am not the right person to be answering. Who Should Be Answering It is…
The eager kindergartener in front of me was pulling her backpack on wheels behind her as we made our way up from the middle falls to the upper falls at Wallace Falls State Park. I turned to the 5th grader dragging his feet slowly up the steep steps behind me with a pokey attitude and…
I remember reading a guide book while planning our vacation to Maui in 2010 about what to do if you wanted to visit Haleakalā National Park for the sunrise. It was best to go when you first arrived to the island as the time change was in your favor. Also, I would probably have to…