“Ice, Ice, Baby”

Hanging on a rope 30 feet down a glacial crevasse, I waited as the team set up ropes to pull me out. Four days spent learning the ropes of expedition mountaineering on Mt. Rainier included lessons on extricating your partner from a crevasse. Glacial ice isn’t like the...

Pietra Ring

I learned geological field work in the rugged backcountry of San Diego. Large bodies of molten rocks crystallized beneath the earth’s surface, later forming mountain chains along the state’s notorious faults. The rocks I roamed were sliced by series of “cracks,”...

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