Ascending Cayambe: An Andean Adventure
Hiking Ecuador's 3rd Highest Peak “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face…you must do the thing you [...]
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01, 2016
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06, 2012
Lesotho the Kingdom in the Sky
My Travels in Lesotho Today marked our first full day in South Africa. Well, oddly enough, we didn't even spend it in South Africa. Instead, we ventured into the [...]
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04, 2010
Notes from the Rio Cuyabeno
An Adventure in Ecuador's Amazon Region Monday Today we left for the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador's second largest protected area after Yasuni National Park just to the south. [...]
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01, 2008
Snowy Woods
My bed was warm and the winter sunlight punched its way in through the blinds above me. Each new snowflake that rested upon the naked oaks sparkled in the brilliant [...]
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12, 2007
A Bridge to the Clouds
Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Conservation Efforts in Costa Rica I have been told that the season changes throughout a day here in Costa Rica. The early morning offers clear blue [...]
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08, 2007
A Glimpse of Recovery
Saving the Bald Eagle Several weekends ago a few of my friends and I camped out on a sandy beach along the Connecticut River, where we saw a glimpse [...]
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08, 2007
Riding on the Back of a Risso’s Dolphin
I was able to catch a fleeting glimpse of this shy family of Risso's Dolphins (Grampus griseus) in the Santa Barbara Channel. Unlike other curious cetaceans, these dolphins won't often [...]
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08, 2007
The Elephant Seal
Santa Rosa Island's Elephant Seals Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands host southern California's largest population of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angirostris). I can see the entire island of [...]
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07, 2007
Blue Light in Big Sur
Eight thirty at this time of year brings in the blue light of evening and all the birds quiet their songs and go to bed. The heat of my fire [...]
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07, 2007
Remembrance of a Shaded Grove
Camping Among the Worlds Largest Trees in Sequoia National Park There is something that comes over me every time a vast, unspoiled wilderness unfolds before my eyes. Reaching the [...]
