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Uplift: Central Utah
November 16, 2024
STRATA
Stretching from Capitol Reef to Cathedral Valley, Central Utah’s red rock cliffs and winding slot canyons chronicle millions of years of erosion on the Colorado Plateau. The land holds traces of seismic shifts, rivers carving their way over epochs to leave labyrinths of sandstone in their wake. Hints of…
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Beyond the Beaten Path: Iceland Highlands
September 4, 2024
NORTH
If Stanley Kubrick had really faked the moon landings, he might have done it somewhere near Skaftárhreppur.
Home to black volcanic craters and vast fields of ash, Iceland’s Highlands are as analogous to the lunar surface as anything found on Earth. NASA tests rovers here, and photographers and filmmakers…
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Currents: Baja Sur
October 22, 2023
SURGE
I turned, and my heart skipped a beat before Jill’s head emerged from a narrow gap in the rocks below. The surf was growing more powerful, and every few minutes a wave would crash against the slippery ledge and send us scrambling for the shore. She crawled onto the…
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Passage: South Coast, Iceland
December 15, 2022
When travelers think of Iceland, some of the first landscapes to come to mind are jagged volcanic formations, imposing glacial tongues, and stunning black sand beaches. Despite the regularity of world-class scenery along the southern coast, access to any type of terrain can be difficult in December, when short days…
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