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Week Five: Mission Accomplished

More than anything, I needed a machete. On the banks of McDonald Lake, the vegetation had sucked up the extra ..


Week Four: Feel the burn

As fires continued their sweep through the Santa Ynez Range of Southern California, one thousand miles to the northeast I ..


Week Three: The Boiling Point

Bryan Snyder Photo The confrontation was inevitable. Throughout the Rockies, snowmelt had been trickling down into meadows and marshes for ..


Week Two: The bear went over the mountain

Bryan Snyder Photo The grizzly tore down the sagebrush hillside – a rippling mass of fur and muscle that seemed hell-bent ..


Week One: Out of the frying pan and into the freezebox

I rolled over in my sleeping bag, causing a mass of snow to slide down the side of the tent ..


WEEK THIRTEEN: THE LEGEND OF CANYONMAN

It took two days for the storms to pass. By then, flash floods had scoured the canyons of Zion ..


WEEK TWELVE: OVERSHADOWED

Insomnia was driving me a little crazy. I hadn’t managed to fall sleep before 2 a.m. in over a ..


WEEK ELEVEN: THE THIEF OF WINTER

Winter does not blow in from the north; it descends from above. It parachutes down from the clouds and ..


WEEK TEN: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

Southwest Montana had just suffered a shock to its metabolic systems in the form of a multi-day storm event that ..


WEEK NINE: TIL THE COWS COME HOME

The sign on the barbed wire fence read: WARNING! LIVE AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES DO NOT HANDLE OR REMOVE MT ARMY NATIONAL GUARD Beyond the fence ..


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