by Don McGowan | Aug 7, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
Capitol Gorge Trail follows the track of the original settlers’ road from Notom to Torrey through the wonders of the Waterpocket Fold and some of Capitol Reef National Park’s most fascinating geology. My limited knowledge of geology imagines this structure...
by Don McGowan | Jul 30, 2021 | August 2021, Uncategorized
The stark tonalities of Entrada sandstone on a late-afternoon cloudless Southern Utah day make the decision to create a black-and-white conversion of the hoodoo population of Goblin Valley and the ever-watchful peaks of the Henry Mountains to the southwest both...
by Don McGowan | Jul 23, 2021 | July 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
John Atlantic Burr was born in 1846 while his parents, Charles and Sarah, were aboard the SS Brooklyn somewhere in the Atlantic on their way to San Francisco, thence to Salt Lake City to follow their faith as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...
by Don McGowan | Jul 16, 2021 | July 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Over the course of visiting Michigan’s wonderful Upper Peninsula during a span of twenty years to lead workshops and to do my own work, I do not recall a single year that we did not take a group to Bond Falls, a state-owned property just on the edge of Ottawa...
by Don McGowan | Jul 10, 2021 | July 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Good morning Everyone. The lower reaches of the crest ridge of the Smokies below Mount Kephart are seen from near Thomas Divide on a morning filled with fog from an overnight rain. As the rising mists come and go, the moving clouds reveal and then quickly cover nearly...
by Don McGowan | Jul 4, 2021 | July 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Long Canyon is a magnificent section of the Burr Trail in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. And while I make absolutely no pretense of supporting the 2017 reduction of the monument by half and hope to see that unfortunate action reversed sooner than later,...
