Category Archives: Wilderness Blog

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This past weekend Scott Harris and I journey out to an area called Redoubt and I was able to capture some nice photos.  That morning was the first fall snow on the peaks around Sitka and it was really beautiful.  The temperature dropped a bit but once we got hiking around we were fine.

Although it was raining early on, the sun came out and rewarded us with a DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY!!!!!!!

I have not taken many forest shots this summer so I spent some time while we were hiking trying to get a shot of the rain coming through the trees.  It rains over 100 inches in some areas of the Tongass National Forest and it is one of the things that makes this place so fresh and filled with life.

Though filled with life, at this time of year it is a place filled with death…salmon.   After swimming thousands of miles and spawning up stream the salmon begin to decay and die.  This process provides the forest with vital nutrients and also feeds almost everything that lives here.  Although they are key, they do look like zombies and can be quite frightening

It has been an incredible season in Alaska and this will likely be one of my last posts from the Northern Field – until my next trip.  Hope everyone has enjoyed these photos (videos to be uploaded soon) and I will see you all in TEXAS next week.

Wildflowers at the Glaciers Edge

Group of American Black Oystercatchers

Flight of a Pigeon Guillemot

Sneak peak by Mustela erminea (Short-tailed Weasel)

Song Sparrow in the Brush

Beautiful call of a Common Loon

Fire of the Castilleja miniata (Indian Paintbrush)

Seagull grazes the Glacial Carved Slopes

Life at the Edge – Fireweed

Wilderness Duet – Common Loons

The Hubbard Glacier

In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world – the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
- John Muir

Last light on the Ice

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
- Rachel Carson

Follow the Crystal Clear Road

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir

360* of Pure Wilderness

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare

Color in the fog

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- John Muir

Too much for Words

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.
- Henry David Thoreau

Movement of Time

I just returned from a week long trip in the Russell Fjord Wilderness (Largest Tidewater Glacier in ALASKA!). It was an amazing trip and I will post a trip report soon! This was a view from our campsite at the foot of Glacier.

I am currently in West Texas filming for a week. Last night the stars were out and I spent some time taking it all in. This is a panorama view from the cave we are filming at.