Geotripper

The Pacific Northwest has this problem. It has two particular things in great abundance: trees and clouds. It also has volcanoes, but much...

Crystal Springs Reservoir is on the upper left, while San Andreas Reservoir is on the lower right As has been no doubt obvious, I was in...

I thought briefly of making this one of those "What is it?" kind of posts, but it seemed kind of obvious. We were flying home fr...

The San Andreas fault at Cajon Wash and Lone Pine Canyon at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains Oh how I love flying. I don...

Pilots and frequent fliers are no doubt familiar with the phenomena, but for infrequent fliers like myself (I will qualify for a free fli...

That's an inflammatory title, and yet in the context of geology it is quite literally true. The land in today's picture is indeed br...

Have you ever wondered about recessional moraines? I guess not too many people have pondered such a deep question, but on my recent flight...

According to this interesting article from the New York Times , it's larger than 9 American states. It is th...

My grandfather had wrinkles. Lots of them. He was a man who spent a large part of his life working outdoors in the days before sunscreen l...

I love flying. Well, I don't like airports. Or security lines. Or airliner food. Or uncontrollably crying babies (though I have sympathy...

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed going through my aerial shots when I first started blogging, so I am reviving my Airliner Chronicles, ju...