Redfish Lake Lodge, Idaho
This is the last post about our trip to Idaho in early October. Pausing by the shores of the Payette River By the time we left Burgdorf Hot Springs we were pretty impressed with Idaho. The place is...
View ArticleOverland in the Land of Twain, Part 1
Photo: Natalie Menacho On August 14, 1861 an unknown, unemployed steamboat pilot, and his brother, got off a dusty stagecoach from St. Joesph, Missouri having made the 1550 mile trek west to the...
View ArticleOverland in the Land of Twain, Part 5
Photo: Greg MacDonald After Twain’s first, large-scale, Western ruckus, his audience began to grow, as did his reputation. By 1864 he was honing his craft by writing 4,000-word political dispatches...
View ArticleLaguna de Santa Rosa Tree-a-Thon
Last week my girlfriend, Natalie, told me about the Greenbelt Movement, an organization founded in the 1970s by Wangari Maathai to combat deforestation and soil erosion in Kenya by training women to...
View ArticleQuick Trip: Lake Sonoma
For our first camping trip of the season together, my girlfriend, Natalie, and I took the canoe up to Lake Sonoma for some boat-in camping. Lake Sonoma is a man-made reservoir just east of Cloverdale,...
View ArticleSouthwest Trip, Part 6: Santa Ynez Mountains
Photo: Natalie Menacho On the homeward leg of our Southwest Trip we made a quick stop in the Santa Ynez Mountains, which were pretty pleasant. We didn’t have time to hit the trails but if you’re...
View ArticleCalifornia Backcountry Discovery Trail, Part 1: Lake Pillsbury
Photo: Gregory McDonald I first spotted the California Backcountry Discovery Trail a couple of years ago as a yellow highlighted route on my Mendocino National Forest map. The idea for the CBDT...
View ArticleCBDT Video: Herd is the Word
. After yesterday’s gorgeous video, here’s our humble offering: some footage from our CBDT trip. We stopped at Lake Pillsbury to check out the local herd. Greg and I provided commentary and Natalie...
View ArticleThe Overview Effect: We’re All in This Together
. This video, Overview, documents the idea that seeing an overview of the earth from space has been a consciousness-shifting event for the astronauts that experienced it and, one hopes, for humanity...
View ArticleCBDT, Part 4: Ruth Lake, Jewel of the Middle of Nowhere
Our camp at Watts Lake. Photo: Gregory McDonald Our fourth day on the California Backcountry Discovery Trail, found us waking at Watt’s Lake. Our goal for the day was to zig-zag east to Ruth Lake....
View ArticleCBDT, Part 5: Bear Den, Coyote Tracks, Camp Site
Ruth Lake: Photo: Gregory McDonald Read the whole post here. On this part of our trip up the California Backcountry Discovery Trail, we spent a couple of nights at Fir Cove Campground on Ruth Lake....
View ArticleCBDT, Part 6: Best Campsite Ever
Back on the CBDT on Forest Road 23. Photo: Nik Schulz Read the whole post here. After a little target shooting and a bit of breakfast we got back on Forest Road 23 and continued up the California...
View ArticleCBDT, Part 7: Obviously Not Bigfoot
Photo: Gregory McDonald Read the whole post here. Our last morning out on the CBDT found us patting ourselves on the back for finding such a great campsite. I made us a special breakfast of fresh...
View ArticleSeattle’s Burke-Gilman Trail
A nice view of the Aurora Bridge We’ve got the boat on the hard at the moment at Canal Boatyard in Seattle. While we’ve been pretty busy with boat projects, we did manage to take a walk the other...
View ArticleQuick Trip: Snow Mountain Wilderness
Photo: Gregory MacDonald A couple of weeks ago my friend Greg, from gadmachine, and I went on a quick trip up the Mendocino National Forest, south of the Snow Mountain Wilderness. While there, we made...
View ArticleRubicon Trail Review
The Rubicon Trail is one of the toughest in the country. Though some of the most truck-destroying obstacles have reportedly been made less trecherous in recent years, the trail is still a grueling,...
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