by Don McGowan | Sep 18, 2021 | Monthly Archives, September 2021, Uncategorized
For a week I have been car-camped in the Santa Fe National Forest at 10,200′ in elevation fifteen miles outside historic old city of Santa Fe in a wonderful area called Aspen Basin. A great fire in the 1880s gave the aspens, because of their capacity to...
by Don McGowan | Sep 11, 2021 | Monthly Archives, September 2021, Uncategorized
The Colorado Plateau is a geology masterclass in visual form; and nowhere on the plateau is this more in evidence than within that 70- x 45-mile ancient dome of sandstone, limestone and shale known fondly as the San Rafael Swell. Seen head-on with magnification from...
by Don McGowan | Sep 4, 2021 | Monthly Archives, September 2021, Uncategorized
The contorted erosional patterns of this small watercourse are probably better known in the downstream stretches of Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons; but for me the upstream magic of Canyon X, the lesser known of the three slot canyons that Mother Nature has...
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...
