by Don McGowan | Aug 10, 2019 | August 2019
Before I dive into this week’s Image I want to announce that our roster of this year’s Upper Peninsula adventure is sadly short by one. We have had a recent cancellation that has created a single opening for our august October group of Yoopers. If you have...
by Don McGowan | Aug 3, 2019 | August 2019
Where Shoal Creek drops over a modest escarpment wall along the lower stretch of its run to join Middle Prong of the French Broad River, itself at that point only a short distance from its own rendezvous with the main body of that great river – Long Man –...
by Don McGowan | Jul 27, 2019 | July 2019
Bonnie and I were playing along one of our favroite stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway last weekend when we found ourselves looking out over the Cradle of Forestry from Pounding Mill Overlook. One of the wonders of working in July in the Southern Appalachians is the...
by Don McGowan | Jul 19, 2019 | July 2019
One of the most excellent adventures the High Desert of the Southwest has to offer is the dusty, dirt track of the Behind the Reef Road, northwest of Goblin Valley and roughly parallel to Utah Highway 24. And if you go in anything other than a high-clearance, 4-WD...
by Don McGowan | Jul 11, 2019 | July 2019
At the far eastern end of Michigan’s fabeled Upper Peninsula, Whitefish Point marks a turn to the south in the shoreline of Kitchi-Gami, as the biggest lake narrows and leads by decrease to the St. Mary’s River and the great locks of Sault-Sainte Marie. In...
by Don McGowan | Jul 6, 2019 | July 2019
By the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago, great ice sheets covered much of what is now Canada and the northern United States. By 8,000 years ago their immense weight had withdrawn beyond the boreal region along what is now the United States-Canada...
