I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...

The Hidden Chapter Finally Gets a Name A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously ...

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A couple of very good slot canyons make for an interesting add-on to the impressive geology hike at the upper portion of this canyon. The Roam-O-Rama write up “The pull-apart basin” from 11/22/17 ...

While driving for a geology field trip, my college professor once told the class that the most common cause of death of geologists is a car accident. This was surely a made-up statistic, but he gave ...

Anyone who enjoys whitewater rafting in places like the Colorado River owes a debt of gratitude to the enormous boulders that create the foaming undulation known as rapids, and new research appears to ...

The shortest distance between the headwaters above the north rim of Glenwood Canyon and the canyon’s most iconic feature, Hanging Lake, is anything but a straight line. Along the way, a portion of ...

Harper Canyon is home to hundreds of magnificent ironwood trees (Olneya terota). They can become quite large and, though the pinnately compound leaves don’t provide abundant shade, they are evergreen ...

Distance: Six miles roundtrip to the lake, 8 miles if you add a hike to the canyon rim. Directions: From Spokane, drive west on Highway 2 until the town of Wilbur. From there head north on Highway 174 ...

One summer nearly 20 years ago, two storms swept through the Texas Hill Country. Canyon Lake filled up, and the water raged over the spillway, cutting a deep gorge into the land. That new gorge ...