Best West Outdoors
Terry J. Richard
Outdoor recreation and travel, mainly in the U.S. West but other places I've been, too -- and climate change.
Created 28 Aug 2021
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Taking a break from Substack, Twitter12 Jan 2022I am working at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and will be mostly off Twitter and Substack until April 2022.
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Victoria Falls is Mosi-oa-Tunya to Africans04 Jan 2022Locals enjoy the day on the Zambezi River just above Mosi-oa-Tunya, or Victoria Falls (BWO photo). The United States did it with Denali. Hint, hint. The tallest mountain in North America used to be na...
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Marrakesh by tour/solo, night/day31 Dec 2021Horse carriages wait in line for tourists in central Marrakesh (BWO photo). Tour vs. solo tourism is the question. Sometimes you do both, for better or worse. Actually, both have appealing features, a...
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Petrified Forest doesn't require pesky camping reservation30 Dec 2021Moonrise scene while backcountry camping at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona (BWO photo). Here’s a national park camping opportunity you don’t need to book six months out: Petrified Forest Na...
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Las Cienegas preserves desert south of Tuscon28 Dec 2021Scenery from Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (BWO photo). Not all BLM land is land nobody wanted. Las Cienegas National Conservation Area in southeast Arizona, 45 miles southeast of Tucson, wa...
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Rock cairns mark the route, for good or bad27 Dec 2021The cairn (right) at a mountain summit is always a welcome sight, especially atop Mount Elbert, Colorado’s highest peak (BWO photo). Cairns are one of those both-sides things: I love them when I need ...
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Wild dogs reveal themselves in Kruger National Park26 Dec 2021Kruger National Park wild dog (BWO photo). And there they were, African wild dogs. After traipsing through some of east Africa and southern Africa’s most famous wildlife reserves, I hadn’t seen wild d...
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Rainy days in national park saved by cosy kitchen24 Dec 2021Sunset at Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa (BWO photo). It was nice to be in a South Africa national park where you can walk. Too bad it rained nearly all the time I was there. The ...
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Feds to make online the way to go for your bird watching23 Dec 2021Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge (foreground), Colorado (BWO photo). The devil is in the details. It certainly sounds good that more federal government permits will be available online rather than thr...
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Ethiopian rock churches control shifts again21 Dec 2021St. George Church, hewn from rock in Lalibela, Ethiopia (BWO photo). Does what’s happening in Lalibela portend more such developments around the world? The World Heritage Site, situated at 8,200 feet ...
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