Death Valley & Mojave Desert
The land speaks for itself: three December days in chronological order.
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Trip Reports
Illusion Island (Anacapa)
10/30-31 Ecology class field trip to Anacapa Island, an hour’s ferry ride from SoCal’s vast, vulgar, meretricious landscape of freeways and single-family homes. If Colorado led me to believe that ecological devastation is nearer to us, more widespread, and more uglifying than people sitting indoors realize, Anacapa showed that undreamed-of beauty still exists in our
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Weminuche Wilderness
Playful soft thunder directly overhead. I’m sitting in a cave at — well, I don’t know the exact elevation because my GPS isn’t working, I’m in a cave. Somewhere far above where you’re supposed to be during a thunder storm. The nearest trees are a dark smudge in the basin below the basin below me.
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Petroglyphs on the West End
The other day I came upon a roadside kiosk with brochures made by local people about the history of Colorado’s West End. One about petroglyphs ended up on my dashboard. This morning I left the confluence, followed the road by the puddles that remain of the Dolores, and found my way to a deserted gallery
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