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What? Why Would I Ever Want to Give Up my Parking Spot in Yosemite Valley?
 "Why?", indeed. I have to admit that I get just a little tiny bit elitist at times, at least in my approach to visiting my favorite national park, Yosemite (program note: my "favorite national park"...
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A Landscape as Bizarre as They Come: The Volcanic Tableland of the Eastern...
The Volcanic Tableland, with the White Mountains beyond.There is a bizarre landscape on the far side of the Sierra Nevada between Bishop and Mammoth Lakes. It's not one of stark beauty exactly, it's...
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Aerial Geology: A High Altitude Tour of North America's Spectacular...
A most interesting book landed on my desk recently. Timber Press asked me if I was interested in reviewing Mary Caperton Morton's book Aerial Geology, A High Altitude Tour of North America's...
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Why did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 15 Years of Geologic Change (an...
2002I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 29 years and started to take digital pictures in 2001. I sometimes struggle to find new things to photograph...
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An Iconic Bit of the Calaveras Fault in Hollister is Gone (But it will be back)
Corner of Locust and Central Avenues in 2016I go on field studies trips year after year, and my camera is always around my neck, to the amusement of my students. They sometimes wonder why I would take...
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It Seems That Half the Volcano is Missing: Travels at Pinnacles National Park
Sixty or seventy years ago, the San Andreas fault didn't exist. Well, it existed, but not in the way it exists for those of us in California today. It had been named only in 1895 after a valley and...
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Our Children Will Say "Why Didn't You Tell Us?", and We'll Say We Tried: The...
I'm reposting my blog from January 27 of this year. It is a story that needs to be told again. At the time I wrote it shortly after the inauguration, it could have been described as alarmist...that I...
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Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: Grand...
There are times when I hate perspective. I really do. I came of age in the 1970s during that turbulent time when we as a society realized that we were poisoning ourselves to death, that our air was...
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Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: Bear's Ears National...
Bear's Ears National Monument is a magical place. It is a place of mystery and vast vistas, a place of sacredness to many people. It is one of our country's most precious treasures. When President...
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Fire in the Sky: The Perspective That Comes When Time is Running Out
It was nothing more than the evening commute to school to give a final examination in my Earth Science course. It was a bit after 4 PM and the sun was settling into the horizon, and the spectacle of it...
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Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: The Ruins of Bear's...
House on Fire Ruin in Bear's Ears. I wasn't smart enough to catch the "fire" in the rocks at the time.There are a lot of pictures in this post, and I hope you will enjoy them. They are the ones most...
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Travels in the Northern Hinterlands of California
The holiday season often means the special moments with family and decorations and Santa Claus, but when your family is spread out in a thin line running the entire length of the west coast of the...
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Happy Holidays from the Geotripper Gang.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all from the gang at Geotripper (that would be me and Mrs. Geotripper, and two cats)! As is our tradition, we offer up once again a very big Christmas tree, the...
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Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: The Grave Robbers and...
 It's all about the attitude and point of view.Would you feel outraged if someone spent time on a Civil War or Revolutionary War battle site, digging and digging, looking for bullets and artifacts to...
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Moon over (former) Magma...Pictures from the Road
 Who knew that it rains all the time in the Pacific Northwest??We're most of the way home from our travels from central California all the way to Seattle, and I of course was looking forward to views...
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The Best Christmas Present Ever
I grant that this post is a bit out of character for Geotripper, being not about rocks, or faults, or preservation of our most cherished landscapes. It is about a Christmas gift.There are lots of...
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Birds Aren't the Only Thing to See at a Great Valley Wildlife Refuge
River Otter at the Sacramento National Wildlife RefugeCalifornia's Great Valley (called by some less proud people the Central Valley) is the most agriculturally productive place on the planet,...
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A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: Time Beyond Imagining
I had no idea!Almost ten years ago, on January 7, 2008, I posted the first entry on Geotripper. I had no idea where it would go, or how long it would last. A century, I guess, in blog years. I had not...
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A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: Geotripper Rates Hollywood Movie...
This week is the tenth anniversary of Geotripper, so I am dredging up some of my favorite posts from over the years. During the early days of geoblogging, there was a monthly carnival called the...
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A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: The Other California
This is a week-long commemoration of ten years of geoblogging at Geotripper. I've been dredging up some of the archives...In my second year of geoblogging, I had finished the "Time Beyond Imagining"...
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