Showy Daisy – Capitan Mountain Wilderness – New Mexico 10 October 2009 – Capitan Mountain Wilderness, New Mexico I was bored one evening in El Paso so I decided that I wanted to go and spend the night out in the mountains. I looked at my maps and determined that the Capitan Mountain Wilderness would [...]
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A night out in the Wilderness – Capitan Mountain, New Mexico
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Santa Fe, New Mexico – 400 years of the History of our Nation
Monday, July 11th, 2011Santa Fe, New Mexico I visited Santa Fe, New Mexico once upon a time and took some notes in my journal. Here is the transcript of my visit in the fall of 2009 – Sitting on a bench in the Santa Fe city cathedral park. It is a beautiful place with shady trees, old lamp [...]
Old Stock Pond – Pole Canyon; Oquirrh Mountains of Utah
Saturday, June 11th, 2011Un expected old stock pond – Pole Canyon – Oquirrh Mountains, Utah Went for a hike of about 5 miles the other day up what we thought was a dry canyon – Pole Canyon to be exact on the west slope of the northern Oquirrh Mountains. It was a pretty day in early June and [...]
City of Rocks State Park – A stargazer’s dream; New Mexico
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011Way out in the middle of nowhere New Mexico is a very interesting little State Park called “City of Rocks”. This State Park is basically a group of impressive stone extrusions that were created 35 million years ago when volcanic ash or “tuff” was fused together. Over the eons these towers and buttresses have [...]
Bluebell – A favorite flower found in Stansbury Mountains of Tooele County, Utah
Sunday, March 27th, 2011“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” Henry David Thoreau Blue Bells are common in the Rocky mountains of Utah and the great basin of Utah Whenever I go out hiking in the mountains I always [...]
Red Pine Lake & The Little Matterhorn – Little Cottonwood Canyon; Wasatch Mountains, Utah – by Jaromy Jessop
Saturday, March 26th, 2011Red Pine Lake – Little Cottonwood Canyon; Wasatch Mountains, Utah As Spring and Summer approach, even though there is still 400 inches of snowpack on the Wasatch, I start to plan my summer excursions. We usually go out once a week and without a doubt, several of those weekends will be spent in the high [...]
My Summer Paradise………..The La-Sal Mountains of Utah; by Jaromy Jessop
Friday, March 18th, 2011South Mountain, La Sal Mountains – Utah I’m looking forward to Summer this year because that is when we make our annual pilgrimage to Moab. Most people know of Moab for the red rock color country of Arches and Canyonlands National Park. Others are drawn there for the world class white water rafting. My favorite [...]
North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment State Park; Illwaco, Washington
Saturday, February 26th, 2011North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment, Washington “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” H.P. Lovecraft While visiting Astoria, Oregon on our trip down the Oregon Coast in late May of 2010, my wife and I decided to take a detour to Cape Disappointment and we are [...]
SNOW SHOE ADVENTURE – Mill D North Fork – Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Winter sun filters through the pines – Wasatch Mountains, Utah Went snow shoeing the other day up Big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah to a place called Mill D North Fork. This trailhead is very popular in the summer time as it provides access to the long trail network known as the [...]
A cold night on Red Pine Mountain – Sheeprock Mountains; Tooele County, Utah
Sunday, February 13th, 2011“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” Friedrich August von Hayek The Sheeprock Mountains are a little known range located south of Vernon in southeast Tooele County. One of my most memorable hiking events occurred in this range on April 24th, 2004 when I climbed [...]
TABLE MOUNTAIN – Ancient Sentinel of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Table Mountain as seen from the East with the shoreline of ancient Lake Bonneville half way up the peak – GSLD, Utah “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out along the Pony Express Trail, [...]