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“…[A] word of caution: Do not jump into your automobile next June and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to…
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Buttercup, bluebell, dandelion, fern.Mountain, river, and cascading falls. Kingfisher, lark, cygnet, heron. Adder, otter, and newt. What? Why? How?: my…
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‘Remote’ is not a characteristic I would assign to the city center, a major metropolis like where I grew up. But I also remember summers spent high in the…
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Rivers run beneath these hills, carving winding caverns through ancient stone, plumbing a subterranean watershed—a second topography, ever changing. What…
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There’s a map in my head lined with the topography of memory and time. The landscape has a rhythm, the cadence of muscle memory when enough boot prints…
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At 16 days old, our little girl ventured into the mountains for the first time. In the high country, below a cathedral of jagged limestone peaks, we found…
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A few months ago, I shared a piece on this program called “Why I Teach Outside.” In it, I discussed the academic research and my personal anecdotes that…
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I’ve fancied a certain type of wandering lately—to grab my pack and boots and walk the lines of Utah’s political border—a trail made not of dirt and…
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“No, no, no! Don’t try to help me up yet,” I instructed, choking back laughter through a face full of snow. Third graders teetered in their snowshoes on…
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This a rebroadcast of a program from Nov. 30, 2018The Henry Mountains of southeast Utah are famous for being the last mountain range in the contiguous…