by Don McGowan | Aug 28, 2021 | August 2021, September 2021, Uncategorized
It is easy to get caught up in the present of being on top of Clingman’s Dome – quite possibly the namesake of Ole’ Smoky of Appalachian ballad fame – and overlook the cloud-filled valleys of Kephart’s Back of Beyond in the mists below...
by Don McGowan | Aug 21, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
Although it is no longer called “Luftee Overlook,” nearly all of the Internet resources have not yet caught up to the fact, and they probably never will, for it has been Luftee for more generations than the mind can recall; and because it is so accurately...
by Don McGowan | Aug 13, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
Over the twenty years that Purchase Knob has been part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, its Beauty has given Bonnie and me countless hours of pleasure and creative opportunity. Often we have navigated to the Jonathan Creek Valley thinking that our drive was in...
by Don McGowan | Aug 7, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
Capitol Gorge Trail follows the track of the original settlers’ road from Notom to Torrey through the wonders of the Waterpocket Fold and some of Capitol Reef National Park’s most fascinating geology. My limited knowledge of geology imagines this structure...
by Don McGowan | Jul 30, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
The stark tonalities of Entrada sandstone on a late-afternoon cloudless Southern Utah day make the decision to create a black-and-white conversion of the hoodoo population of Goblin Valley and the ever-watchful peaks of the Henry Mountains to the southwest both...
