After saying goodbye to Odon and his family I checked into the Monasterio Hotel on the early afternoon of Wednesday, April 12, 2017 and, in short order met my Wilderness...

Well, it was time to fish, or cut bait --  it was time to hike the Inca Trail.  I had spent many hours and many days preparing for this endeavor,...

My visit to the 2015 Pecos Conference was pretty much a bust due to me cutting off part of my left index finger, so I decided to give it a...

When I enrolled at Texas State University in the Fall of 2014, I didn't really know what a "field school" was.  During my backpack with Vaughn Hadenfeldt into Slickhorn Canyon...

I had enrolled at Texas State University in the Fall of 2014 and thoroughly enjoyed my first year of studies.  The Summer of 2015 found me looking ahead to my...

In reality, it all began in April, 2012, as my grandson Holt and I sat on top of Old Baldy in Garner State Park.  It was at that moment that...

Part 1 of this blog covers how it came to be that I found myself in Bluff Utah fixing to spend five days in the remote confines of Slickhorn Canyon...