Out on the Llano Estacado
Did you ever wonder what it looks like out on the Llano Estacado? Oh. You don't know what the Llano Estacado is? "When we were upon the high table-land, a view presented itself as boundless as the ocean. Not a…
Valsörarna Lighthouse – Kvarken World Heritage Site – Finland
There is a little island out in the middle of the Gulf of Bothnia that feels like it is a thousand miles from anywhere. The mainland to the east is just out of view behind the curve of the Earth…
Images of Windows. Tamsweg, Austria
I've certainly allowed my website to slide the past month. But I have a good excuse. Not only have I been publishing articles elsewhere but I've been developing the first guide to the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Most…
A Tepid Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Area Victory
Last week, the most worthless and unpopular Congress in the history of the United States of America passed the National Defense Authorization Act. The troubled House of Representatives approved the “must pass” bill on December, 4th. The Senate passed it…
Some Recent Articles You May Have Missed
Not wanting to deprive you of other articles I've written the past few months but didn't post on my website.... I kindly offer a few that were published here and there on the innertubes recently that you may have missed. The four articles I've linked to…
Melting Glaciers in Austria – Hiking the Untersulzbachtal
Hiking the Untersulzbachtal At the beginning of October, 2014 I joined a small group to hike to the Untersulzbachtal Glacier in Austria’s Hohe Tauern National Park I was one of the speakers at the European Wilderness Society’s Wilderness Academy Days…
For the Birds in Europe, the News Isn't Good
About a month ago as I was hiking my way around the valleys of Tatras National Park in northern Slovakia I was struck by the utter absence of bird song and bird life. I noted it here: “Lacking however are birds…
More Pictures of Beautiful Bratislava by Night
Although I only had two days in Bratislava at the end of my European wilderness trip I had a great time spending the early part of the night moving around the section of the city along the Danube and near…
Slovakia Wilderness – My Shot of the Day – October 30, 2014
I stepped out just before sunrise. A warm air was flowing up the valley. I took a quick bath in the cold stream and then sat by the fire, drinking coffee and waiting for the sunlight to touch Nizna Bystra,…
Danube River at Night – My Shot of the Day – October 16, 2014
The Danube River as it runs through Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, on the evening of October 15, 2014. This is looking more or less southeast, downriver. The picture below is from underneath the New Bridge on the western…
Roma Man in the Slovakian Countryside – My Shot of the Day, October 12, 2014
After a few days exploring the Račkova Valley we came down onto the agricultural plains of the Slovakian countryside for some larger sunset landscape photographs of the entire mountain range. Unfortunately, the clouds rolled back over the mountains and they…
Up Slovakia's Wild Koprovsky Dolina
Vlado Vancura, volunteer wilderness ranger and member of the European Wilderness Society (EWS) pointed to lichen hanging from a spruce as evidence that things were indeed getting better. “You would have never seen that in communist days,” he said. Air…