

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
While winter does not officially arrive until Friday, several national parks in the West shifted into winter-wonderland mode after some sizable storms rolled through this weekend. Check out an assortment of photos the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone to Mount Rainier. ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on December 17, 2012 12:55 PM & Tagged Snow, national parks and photos | permalink | Comments
Walking in the fluid landscape of an active volcano offers some terrific photo opportunities, as displayed in a photo gallery (by Miles Morgan) published this week by The Telegraph of the United Kingdom. Click and enjoy. Decades ago I spend a couple of weeks meandering craters and lava fields in and around the Kilauea Caldera at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, on Hawaii's Big Island, where Morgan took his gorgeous shots. Roads and beaches that existed during my visit are, alas, mere geologic ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on March 29, 2012 5:38 PM & Tagged Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, lava, national parks, photos and volcanoes | permalink | Comments
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