Hiking in America: Haleakalā National Park, Hawai’i

Haleakalā National Park offers challenging and easy hikes and stunning vistas that include a massive volcano, lush tropical rainforests, and exquisite waterfalls.   Haleakalā National Park Haleakal...

Hiking in America: West Maui Mountains, Hawai’i

Maui’s West Maui Mountains offer easy to challenging hikes with stunning views of razorback peaks, plunging valleys, and lush coastal scenes.   Today’s post is the second of three about hikin...

Hiking in America: Coastal West Maui, Hawai’i

Coastal West Maui offers short hikes with spectacular scenic payoffs including smashing surf, otherworldly lava formations, and lush, cluttered rainforest. Today’s post is the first of three abo...

Potter Marsh, Alaska

Mild darkness bathes northern Nova Scotia this evening, obscuring the ground mist that settled over meadows and forest and Matheson Brrok as I returned home from walking rural roads in late afternoon....