My first strategy for dealing with crowds in our National Parks is to visit during the shoulder or off seasons. I don’t have that choice in Denali National Park, I am passing through now and by the shoulder season I will be snug in my RV, back in New Mexico! So, I needed to develop…
After reading my blog post about drug smugglers on public lands more than one person said the solution is: Build The Wall. I don’t think so. For one thing, the rancher who was slaughtered by drug runners in 2010 (near Douglas, AZ) had a property that was bordered by a wall, which never stopped smugglers from…
Yesterday I was rattled in a way that will forever affect my feeling of safety on our public lands. I was headed into the Chiricahua Mountains, a beautiful, remote, and rugged mountain range in Southeast Arizona that is about 65 miles north of the Mexico border. That morning, I left my winter hangout in Deming,…