by Don McGowan | Apr 4, 2020 | April 2020
It’s been several years since I’ve been to Acadia National Park for the fall color, although there was a time when I went nearly every year. Traveling between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Mount Desert Island in order to maximize the color in both...
by Don McGowan | Mar 25, 2020 | March 2020
In the lower stretches of the Oconaluftee River Valley, downstream from the confluence of Kephart Prong and Beech Flats Prong, and where all of the various branches – Kanati Fork, Bradley Fork, Straight Fork, and Raven Fork – have come together, there are...
by Don McGowan | Mar 20, 2020 | March 2020
There is a thin peninsula of a headland that juts into the great chasm of the Grand Canyon from the southern extremity of the North Rim’s Kaibab Plateau. Though technically part of the Kaibab, it has been given the separate name of the Walhalla Plateau. One day,...
by Don McGowan | Mar 14, 2020 | March 2020
One hundred and Seventy (170,000,000) million years ago, a vast inland sea covered what is now South-central Utah. Over time large deposits were laid down along the margins of that body of water. Eventually, those Jurassic deposits were exposed and weathered; one of...
by Don McGowan | Mar 7, 2020 | March 2020
When the sun sets in Chaco Canyon, it lights up the western flank of that sacred, Cretaceous sandstone remnant, Fajada Butte, a fairly spectacular sight all by itself. Nearly 180 degrees away from Fajada, on the day following the new moon, the Syzygy (new moon) for...
