by Don McGowan | Mar 11, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
One of the most wonderful and telling signs of spring in the Great Smoky Mountains is a beautiful area on the face of the Bullhead seen from the lower Campbell Overlook. Most of the trees in this section of the forest are hardwood of one variety or another. As spring...
by Don McGowan | Mar 5, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
It has been my privilege to stand on a number of occasions on the Canyon Junction Bridge just upstream from the confluence of North Fork of the Virgin River and Pine Creek in Zion National Park in the very late afternoon looking downstream as the golden light...
by Don McGowan | Feb 26, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Today is a very special day in the history of our great national experiment with lands in our country owned by all of us and managed for the benefit and enjoyment of everyone. On this day in 1919, Grand Canyon became a national park. Theodore Roosevent, in 1908 as...
by Don McGowan | Feb 17, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
The beauty of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Pounding Mill Overlook, just west of Wagon Road Gap by about 2 miles is well-known to the photographers in Western North Carolina and the Southern Appalachians beyond. The most coveted view from the overlook is looking to...
by Don McGowan | Feb 12, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
The Moab Fault is a North-South running scar through which runs a major highway heading from Douglas, Arizona on the border with Mexico all the way to Yellowstone National Park in southwestern Wyoming. On the tableland beyond the eastern rise of the fault lies the...
by Don McGowan | Feb 4, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
In the game most of us played as children, “Rock Breaks Scissors” the winning sequences are Rock breaks Scissors; Scissors cut Paper; and Paper covers Rock. I was reminded of that old game several years ago as I stood on the rim of Black Canyon of the...
