Ultimate Places

Well after years of helping maintain remote weather cams and a weather station at Umiat, Alaska, I’m finally going to make my first visit. With two cameras in place for the last 3 years, and another 1-2 two more planned this coming year, I figured a visit was long past due.
Compared to other places in […]

Its not every day that you find a fossil sticking right out of the ground where you can just reach down and grab it, but that’s what happen to a 10-year kid locally, as he walked home from school. Being as large as a toaster it was apparently pretty hard to miss. Hopefully he donates […]

For those who aren’t immediately familiar with the term “Sequoia”, this U.S. national park is named after the giant trees that live within its boundaries. Sequoia’s by most accounts are largest trees on Earth, with the largest tree known to exist, being the Giant Sequoia known as “General Sherman”. The General Sherman tree is […]

It almost goes without saying that the Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. And while it is probably very well known, it still ranks in my top 10 natural wonders to visit.
There are two things about the Grand Canyon that I find absolutely fascinating, the first is […]

Of all the places to visit in Alaska and the world, I would probably rank Denali National Park in my list of the top 30 natural wonders in world. The folks in Alaska would probably immediately say “What!”, its got to rank higher than that. But in reality there are two things great about Denali, […]

If you ever get a chance, one of the places in the United States I would highly recommend visiting is southern Utah in general and Arches National Park in particular. The combination of a relatively dry climate, wind and sandstone have created some of the most magnificant natural monuments on the planet.
The most famous arch […]