Earth Day 2025, an opportunity to reflect on our adventures in pictures over the last 365 days. However, Earth Day is an important reminder of our responsibility to protect the planet we all share. It serves as a moment of reflection and a call to action to help us better understand our environmental challenges and the … Continue reading Earth Day 2025
Paddle & Trails has relocated to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho! For the last three years, we had been attempting to move further northwest, to either Idaho, Montana or Wyoming. The past two summers, we traveled around the Idaho Panhandle and fell in love with the area. Northern Idaho offers a culmination of everything we love to … Continue reading Paddle & Trails: Moved to Coeur d’Alene
by Christine Peterson, High Country NewsJune 24, 2024 In the early hours of June 8, a half-acre section of Wyoming Highway 22 cracked open and slid down the mountainside, leaving a yawning gap in the road. Every morning and evening, thousands of people cross Teton Pass on this highway, commuting between their jobs in Jackson … Continue reading When a Landslide Blocks Your Commute
As mentioned in our post last weekend about snowshoeing with my (Stella) new legs, we have many trips planned for Spring and Summer 2024! Typically, winter is when we do significant traveling, but since we were unable to, we are going all out for the upcoming warm months of this year. The first, and most … Continue reading Spring & Summer Adventure Plans 2024
Can species evolve fast enough to keep up with changing wildfire conditions? Kylie Mohr/High Country News Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. While previous research tended to focus on a blaze’s immediate impacts — Did population numbers go up or … Continue reading Fire is Driving Animals’ Evolution
Tahoe avalanches: What causes innocent-looking snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving A skier at Palisades Tahoe, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics and site of a small but deadly avalanche in 2024. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe’s … Continue reading Tahoe Avalanches
Looking up toward redwoods’ crowns in Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, Calif. Gado/Getty Images Coast redwood trees are enduring, adaptable marvels in a warming world Daniel Lewis, California Institute of Technology Coast redwoods – enormous, spectacular trees, some reaching nearly 400 feet, the tallest plants on the planet – thrive mostly in a narrow strip of land … Continue reading Coast Redwood Trees