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Nebraska National Forest encompasses an area in northwestern Nebraska that features a set of ridges and rocky hills covered in Ponderosa Pines known as the Pine Ridge Escarpment. When people think of the Great Plains they think of flatland, farms and fields stretching on like an ocean of tall grass or wheat wafting in theContinue reading “Jewels of the Plains”

You can see it from a distance, across a vast open valley at the tip top of what they call The Grand Staircase, a set of plateaus that rises in stepped chunks from a valley floor that starts where the northern bit of the Kaibab plateau ends. Below 4800 feet rising all the way toContinue reading “A Canyon of Amphitheaters”

He Wanders To A Canyon So Grand This was a trip of “nothing prepares you for the majesty of (insert place)”. From Horseshoe Bend to the Vermillion Cliffs to the Kaibab Plateau and the Grand Canyon itself it seemed like every turn in the road brought me to yet another mesmerizing view in an astonishingContinue reading “A Desert Drive, A Night In The Forest”

The moon wasn’t full but it was god damned bright when my alarm went off at just after 4 in the morning. A drive to Moab the previous night and a bit south of there towards the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park found us sleeping in our cars on the side of a sandyContinue reading “Under A Painted Sky”