El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up
I’ve gotten my fill of the pit’s bottom, and now I begin one of the most strenuous, terrifying and sublime climbs of my life.
Read more "El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up"El Yoyo, Part 2: At Bottom
Having safely arrived at the bottom of my harrowing drop into El Sótano de las Huahuas, I take a moment to calm down, enjoy the atmosphere and contemplate why it is I do these things.
Read more "El Yoyo, Part 2: At Bottom"El Yoyo, Part 1: Going Down
Yoyo-ing is a subdiscipline of caving where the vertical dimension dominates the horizontal. Being a climber, I’d expected Mexican sótanos to be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong.
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Bad weather? Hop in the car and head south!
Read more "Road Trip: Albuquerque To Cochise"The Tourist Attitude
We outdoorsy types are constantly casting judgements on our wilderness experiences. What if we were to cut it out and simply accept the world as it is?
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The Colorado Plateau Physiographic Province is full of contradictory features. How do we winnow the exceptions from the rules?
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The Earth, and Bosque Farms with it, has completed another orbit.
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We’d like to think that scientific measurement is a fairly straightforward undertaking. It’s really not. Just spend a day surveying underground.
Read more "Caving In El Malpais, Part 2: Making Measurements"Back Home: Gallup, New Mexico
There’s nothing like a pilgrimage home — even if you’ve made the trip a thousand times.
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Is subjective delight justification enough for making a metaphorical connection between the disparate realms of botany and minerology? Or must there be some instrumental value?
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