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More on Anna,the discouraging ranger: When we first stopped in at the visitors center in Borrego Springs, a young ranger named Anna offered to help us plan out our visit. We were delighted. We shared with her that we had camped, hiked and backpacked extensively in Death Valley, and done some...

We spent the last week camping and hiking in Anza Borrego, and really enjoyed it. Cold at night, warm during the day, great dark skies, slot canyons, cool geology, and even some Native America artifacts. It's a long drive from our home up in Napa, and we still prefer Death Valley, but the...

It has not rained in Anza Borrego since last March. It's dry

Now you, too, can climb Everest in only a few days! https://explorersweb.com/you-can-now-climb-everest-in-a-week-using-xenon-doping-the-implications/

The local paper in Calistoga published an article I wrote about overtourism and its impacts. It's a long read, but that's because it's complex topic. Their website doesn't have the story up yet, so here's a link to my version: https://www.paulwagnerwine.com/post/over-tourism-issues-face-napa

This is a bit more than I am willing to tackle, but the report from the rangers who winter over in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite are always good reading--and have great photos. Laura and Rob Pilewski are amazing--and have been ding this for years...

Nice photos! Keep posting those...and keep us posted on your adventures.

Great photos--and we're grateful for your work out there. I do similar projects in the Sierra Nevada. Highly recommended!

I volunteer quite a few hours each year to work on trails, clean up campsites, and generally try to improve the conditions (and minimize the impacts of visitors) in the wildernesses where I live. I am hopeful that this funding will help with those efforts.

This is good news. The new legislation (Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences Act, for those keeping score at home) generally funds improvements to our outdoor recreation infrastructure, from campgrounds to long-distance trails, as well as upgrading the permitting process and...

Great stuff. Thank you!

Lots of hopes: After doing the Camino Primitive in Spain in 2023, my daughter and I are looking at the Lycian Way in Turkey in 2025. I'll also do a few weeks of trail crew work ..first one planned in the Mokelumne Wilderness, but there will be more days and weeks of that. And I have hopes of...

Great petroglyphs! And that is an impressive collection of pottery--although I can't help thinking about where it would have been found... So, what's the future for all that stuff?

I should update my previous post to say that last summer my daughter and I hiked the Camino Primitivo to Santiago de Compostela. This is the original route the King Alfonso hiked back in the 9th century or so, and is very different from the more popular Camino Frances. Our route had far fewer...

Spectacular photos! Thank you!

Thanks for the grand acventure. Just what I needed on a cold, rainy day !

UHH. For Americans, Yosemite is not an international destination.

Thus your avatar! hee hee

Yeah--except that when it comes times to vote, the people you have directed out of the wilderness will see no reason to protect it.

This is an excellent video on the coming financial crunch for the department that maintains and supervises our trails and wildernesses. Next year's budget calls for massive cuts in their funding. https://youtu.be/d24PTLHEu_Q And one place they are going to be cutting is in the hiring of...