Bailey Range, Olympic Nat’l Park geology of tectonics & subduction on exhibit in Olympic Mountains

ailey Range is a major ridge and spine of the core , technically beginning from itself, spiralling north and northwest through the northwest quadrant of , then tapering & bifurcating beyond into civilian and timberland parts of the .  Official trails end at – ‘dare not to enter’ – the main interior Baileys, and (thus) …

Hammock camp an approach to promote Dispersed Camping, for impact-reduction

ammocks are usually seen as a way to rig a suspended bed, to avoid having to lay down on the uncomfortable ground, to sleep. However, a hammock-suspension that supports the whole weight of a person is way more than strong enough to also support a tent or tarp shelter, which are insignificant loads in comparison. …

External versus internal frame backpacks the external-frame is better; the cost is complexity

ackpacks come in either external or internal frame designs. Internal types dominate in the market today, due to two main factors. Most-conspicuously, but functionally secondary, is the popularity (or more accurately, prestige) of mountain climbing, rock-climbing, ice-climbing & etc. More-pragmatically & realistically, the problem with external frame designs is that they really need to be …

Olympic National Park, NW USA

lympic National Park is mainly the inner of the , a far northwest promontory of , at the far northwest corner of the United States.   The old-fashioned enters the Peninsula at its base, and circumnavigates the Park, mostly staying outside it.  ‘The Loop’ is a big part of the popularity of Olympic, and a …

Olympic Mountains, NW USA an outlying buckle in the subduction zone

lympic Mountains is a small (50-75 mi), cleanly-defined, roughly circular and radial, even slightly spiraled local range (barely) on the far northwest coast of the USA.   It dominates the interior of .  The Olympics are noted for their high degree of ruggedness, and for their high visibility from nearby urban and conurbated populations.  Many Seattlites …

Cat Creek, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park Elwha river tributary, Olympic Park

at Creek is a left-bank, western tributary of the middle , a drainage of the of the in the .   There are no trails (or roads) into this watershed.  Partial views into Cat-terrain can be had from the subalpine .   Good glimpses of the lower & middle reaches of its cleft into the …

Firefox web browser

The Firefox web browser is the flagship product of the Mozilla Foundation and its community of Open Source developers.  It got its initial start, leadership and programmers, from the failure of Netscape which was overwhelmed by Internet Explorer, in the late 1990s.  Today, Firefox battles fellow heavyweights Chrome and IE, and lesser combatants, in the …

Treesearch, US Forest Service Publications the U.S. Forest Service online library

reesearch is the site [1. U.S. Forest Service website] that provides easy access to a database of tens of thousands of Forest Service research papers, documents and projects from across a span of many decades. The Forest Service itself is divided administratively into six Regions and corresponding Research Stations, each of which has historically addressed …

Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments

nsel Adams was a successful commercial photographer & artist with a long career.  But in 1941 he contracted with the government to record scenes in National Parks and public lands.  This body of work became legal public property, and the set of 220 images is now becoming fully available to the public.  Many are familiar …