Fantastic, new, and recently affordable technology to take with you on almost any adventure (except spelunking and SCUBA). Find your way to a place, then find your way back, even in near-zero visibility and for less than $200. You can spend a lot more, of course, if you want a hand-held device containing maps and route-finding capabilities.
This is a slide show exploring Highway 26, the Road Less Traveled, from Parma in Idaho, through Nyssa, thence northwest and west over the Blue Mountains to John Day which is in a long east-west valley. At the west end of this valley is Fossil Beds National Monument and some spectacular canyon country, then up and over more mountains to Painted Hills near Mitchell. Then over more mountains southwest to Prineville, then over more hills northwest to Madras. The highway drops down over 1,000 feet to the Deschutes River canyon, then climbs out the other side to a 2,300 foot volcanic plateau that covers much of central Oregon (and through which the Deschutes River has made its canyon) and the first glimpse of Mount Hood. The highway ends in Portland, Oregon, passing right at the southern flank of Mount Hood. "Green Tunnels" keep you from seeing very much once you get into the forest.
August, 2002 photographs by Michael Gordon.
Located in northern Utah's Bear River Range, Tony Grove Lake is small but popular with local residents. The view from Mount Naomi is quite impressive; it is 9,979 feet high. Here is a 30-photo slide show with selection gallery. Photographed using a Nikon 5000 digital camera.
June, 2002 photographs by Michael Gordon.
From Minneapolis to Fergus Falls, to Hendrum on the Red River Valley, to Ada, to Bemidji. Photographs made with a Nikon 5000 digital camera.
California, USA. Photographs by Tom Zeidner using an Olympus digital camera.
Photographed by Michael Gordon using a Nikon 5000 digital camera.
San Diego, California, USA
A selection of photographs from Sea World and the San Diego Zoo
NEW PHOTOS from 2004. High quality Sea World photos!
Bonus: Mount Helix in San Diego County south of El Cajon and north of Spring Valley.
At the top of Utah, near Idaho and Wyoming, is a huge freshwater lake -- Bear Lake. It is a natural reservoir, it fills from the north end (from Bear River) when the river is high, and empties back into the same river when the river is low.
BEAR LAKE GOLF, Michael Gordon's collection of photos. Good photos but it is a resource page so there's a LOT of them. Luckily you also have a gallery so you can view just the ones that interest you the most. The golf course is south of Garden City a few miles and northwest from Laketown.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE of Bear Lake Golf, one of the Executive Recreation Properties. If you don't have Shockwave Flash in your computer you won't get much out of this one.
A 1971 adventure with the Explorer Scouts. 8 days, 92 miles or so. Giant Forest in the west (near Fresno) to Lone Pine in the east, crossing Kaweah Gap, Chagoopa Plateau and Moraine Lake thereon, Kern Canyon, and Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States.
