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Showing posts with label back of beyond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back of beyond. Show all posts
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Starting Off With a Bang

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  The Granite Mountains adjacent to the Mojave National Preserve Actually it was a great many bangs. I shall explain... Let's start with...
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Saturday, June 21, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Adventures on the Colorado Plateau

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  Devils Garden in Arches National Park What is an adventure anymore?  I ask my students to describe the meaning in one of my offbeat assign...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Home From Back of Beyond: Images of a Harsh Country, Part One

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Sunset through wildfire smoke at Arches National Park, Utah If you are familiar with the Chronicles of Narnia, you will remember the no...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Headed into the Back of Beyond (Again)

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I had hoped to finish our blog journey through the most dangerous plate boundary, but there was just too little time between real-world tr...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Heading into Back of Beyond...

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Edward Abbey talked about this wilderness as "Back of Beyond". It is the Colorado Plateau, one of the most beautiful landscapes ...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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