Geotripper

  That was exciting. I live in the Central Valley of California. The valley is famously boring for a number of reasons, and one of the good ...

The eastern Sierra Nevada is home to one of the strangest forests I know of. It's not the species of tree that is odd; they are mostl...

Pothole Dome in Tuolumne Meadows at Yosemite National Park Sometimes glacial terms represent some kind of logical relationship to realit...

Rivers are often damned by damming. Lakes are often made by dams. But sometimes lakes are damned by dams. And somehow these sentences relate...

I thank my father for the title, which derives from a college term paper he wrote many years ago, although today's post is about a diffe...

The West Walker River, the latest entry in our " Other California " series, changes character many times on its journey from the ...

The West Walker River Gorge Rivers used to be such simple things. I learned it in third grade. Water evaporated out of the ocean, fell on th...

Ask most people their image of the Sierra, and you will hear about Yosemite Valley, Sequoia, granite, and the Mother Lode. Ask them about cr...

I posted some pictures of a "fluvial forest" this morning (fluvial=river) asking for an explanation about how these trees came to...