PRAIRIE CITY, Ore. — Oregon is so brimming with incredible wild places for camping and hiking that sometimes it can be hard to determine just where to go when you have a few days to get away. Recently ...
PRAIRIE CITY — We must have looked weary, because the young girl was immediately encouraging as we encountered her group just a few hundred feet from the summit of Strawberry Mountain. “It’s not much ...
GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS • Five minutes into the hike, I knew I shouldn’t have come. Not here. Not now. In a few more weeks, the wooded slopes of the behemoth known as Greenhorn Mountain will be ...
Sunset over Mount Acropolis, in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania.iStock A few months ago, I visited Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest lake, which is part of the UNESCO World ...
A lightning bolt lit the night. It seared the air at 50,000 degrees and then harpooned a Douglas fir with a few billion watts. As thunder boomed and shook across the mountain rim, the tree ignited. At ...
Editor's Note: This article on the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is the fifth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal ...