Craters of the Moon Nov. 2016

CRATERS OF THE MOON Just a few miles west of here you will find the eastern boundary of a geologic province like no other. Most often referred to as the Snake River Plain, this unique landscape cuts a swath from the Oregon-Idaho-Nevada border all the way across Idaho...

Teton Quadrangle Nov. 2016

You can’t tell where you are going unless you know where you have been. ~ Unknown SPARRING WITH SERAPH In the dystopian sci-fi movie The Matrix Reloaded, Neo, the main protagonist, must spar with Seraph, the gatekeeper, before consulting the Oracle for a big-picture...

Mt. St. Helen Aug 2016

And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did -Elton John, Candle In The Wind THE FLEETING GLORY OF YOUTH  It is surprisingly difficult to find good photographs of pre-1980 Mount St Helens. There...

Greenland Aug 2016

SECRETS OF THE BIG EMPTY Greenland. The name alone beckons forth a dull-white canvas so vast and subtle that detail is difficult to apprehend even at the widest embrace of the human eye. At greater distances, contradictions emerge that only add to the mystique of this...

Continental Collisions July 2016

THE FIRST FIFTEEN MILLISECONDS GJH member John Daily, who happens to be a nationally recognized crash expert, finds his deepest joy in crashing vehicles into each other. It could be a mini cooper and a cement truck, a couple of pickup trucks, maybe a corvette and a...