Author: Scrib

The Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route (“AZBDR”) is a 750-mile-long mostly offroad route that winds its way across the state, from the Coronado National Monument on the U.S. – Mexico border in the south, to the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument on the Arizona – Utah border in the north. I joined up with five other Jeepers […]

This month I had the opportunity to join College of Southern Idaho (CSI) Professor Shawn Willsey and a dozen other geology nerds, on a two-day field trip around some of the significant geological features in the Twin Falls area. If a field trip with a stuffy geology professor sounds like an odd way to spend […]

One of the lesser-known and lesser-visited parks in the Pacific Northwest, perhaps due to its remote location on the northern tip of Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, or perhaps because it is largely a nature preserve with few amenities other than a maintained trail system, Leadbetter Point State Park offers a unique hiking experience along sandy […]

I spent the Fourth of July holiday week traveling on much of the Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route, which is a (mostly) offroad route that runs from the California border to the Washington border.  Being that I live about an hour from Mt. Hood, I travelled the route from north to south, which is just fine, […]