Category: Geology & Rocks

From Thursday, August 3rd, until Saturday the 5th, we camped at Tombstone Mountain Campground, and attended a few of the events during “Tombstone Rocks”, a Tombstone Park Geology Weekend. There was some awesome hiking and I’ll be back for more next year, but next time, I’ll try to keep...

Having given up on some sunny days arriving in Smithers, on Day 57 of the trip, June 21, the first day of summer, we moved west and north to Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park. A 253-km (157-mi) drive would still give us plenty of time to explore the...

Our first destination after leaving Summit Lake Campground in the Tracker was Summit Lake Lodge, which was closed for almost 25 years – I vaguely remember it being open the first year or two that I ran the highway (1990-91). I had planned on driving up to the microwave...

Day 2 of the trip, Thursday, September 10th, was so busy that by the end of it, it took me a while to figure out that it actually had been just one day 🙂 Dawn at our parking spot for the night, a large gravel pullout at Km 749.5,...

Most people who drive up the Dempster Highway only go as far as the Tombstone Range viewpoint at Km 74, not realizing that the best part of the highway starts just a few miles beyond that. On Sunday, we took the Tracker up to Chapman Lake at Km 116,...

For our stop in Hilo on Wednesday, Cathy and I hired a private guide to take us on an all-day tour of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. This is a lengthy post, but it was an amazing day, and it took 40 of the 250 photos I shot to share...

People often refer to granite in ways that suggest its solidity, its permanence. In terms of a human life span that may be true but it’s interesting to see how granite reacts to the forces of Nature in the long term. In response to the photo of a balancing...

Although I used the word “volcano” in the title, Golden Horn isn’t technically a volcano, as the lava that oozed out of it wasn’t an eruption. I fairly often post photos of Golden Horn as we see it from our property, but tonight I’d like to show you how...