North Africa

North Africa

We camped below a band of large dunes and the sun quickly began to set. The hot mint tea warmed us as the heat of the desert left and the darkness rolled in. We walked up to the top of the dunes. Our necks rolled back as the stars brightened above us. The guide had […]

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Chimborazo-Ecuador

Chimborazo-Ecuador

The sun began to set as I stood outside the climbers hut on Mt. Chimborazo. Fog rose from the landscape in strange swirls of mist. As the sun dropped below the horizon the mist turned flaming red with scarlet streaks that reached skyward from the burnt earth. It was as if a huge fire engulfed […]

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Denali-Alaska

Denali-Alaska

After weeks living on the ice and snow our plane finally arrived. We had been waiting for several days for a clearing in the weather and finally we had a break. The ski covered wheels of the Cessna slid across the snow as it came in fast, turned in a half arc and with the […]

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The Mine and the Lost Wrench

The Mine and the Lost Wrench

My Grandfather Elmer Hood was a man of many trades. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s he used his skills as a mechanic maintaining mining equipment in Colorado. Towards the end of one of his shifts at the mine he was called to the foreman’s office and told that a small gas engine/compressor that pumped […]

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Sadie and a Spirit

Sadie and a Spirit

It was a late spring weekend as we hiked up the ridge to our camp above Silver Creek. We set up our tents and with the whole day ahead we headed up Kachess Ridge to the high point around 5500 feet. Snow patches still remained on the ridge as we approached the rocky summit block. […]

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