Sunday, November 24, 2019

Travels in Cascadia: Deserts in Canada...and What's with this Lake??

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Did you know there is a desert in western Canada, in British Columbia? Well, okay not quite a desert by any standard we have down here in ...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Why did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 17 Years of Geologic Change (a new Update)

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2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 30 years and started to take digital p...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

The Last Planetary Transit I'm Ever Likely to See: Mercury Today

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The Sun shown just a bit less brightly today, not that anyone could tell. The planet Mercury passed across the disk of the Sun over the sp...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Travels in Cascadia: Acrophobia, Glacierlets, and "Summer" in Whistler, B.C.

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Inuksuk near the top of Whistler Mountain. See the note at the end of the post. Acrophobia, the fear of heights, is an interesting phen...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

A Bit of "Where's Waldo the River Otter?" at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge

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There are things in my life that are more thrilling than spotting River Otters ( Lontra Canadensis ), but there are not many of them. I sp...
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Thursday, October 24, 2019

Travels in Cascadia: Howe Sound and the Challenge of Living (and Mining) in Vertical Places, Part 2

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Howe Sound, the southernmost glacial fjord in western North America, is a fascinating place to explore. We've already looked at the jo...
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