Pika Sightings on the PCT
Andrew Schleif, an engineer from Oregon is in the middle of the trip of a life time. He quit his day job and is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from California to Washington. Along the way he is looking for signs of Pika for ASC researcher, April...
Hari Mix from Mongolia Phone Update – Pika Study, High Altitude Rock Sampling
Ulaanbaatar – Mongolian Pika Research and Rock Sampling for Microbes
Greetings from the capital of Mongolia! With over 60% nomads, UB (pop. 1 million) is really Mongolia’s only city, with other towns all under 40,000. UB is an interesting, rapidly growing city, with a very eclectic patchwork of old and new. Buddhist temple meets...
Tres Chicas Locas Adventure in Peru: Hiking Passes, Trekking Glaciers and Savoring the Moment
Magnificent Ausangate Peak We have repeated the proverb "this too shall pass" during both trying times such as battling the evil Patagonian horseflies and during invigorating times such as blazing our own trail by swimming across a lake...
Rivers For Change: Kayaking the Upper Sacramento, Box Canyon to Dog Creek
Our journey down the long Sacramento has begun. On Wednesday Kevin and Galen walked to the bottom of Box Canyon Dam, the official beginning of the Sacramento River. The river starts off fast and narrow. It is hard to believe its the same river that provides water to...
Adventures in Rural Bolivia: Hiking, River Crossings and Birthdays!
As usual, we happened to arrive just in time for another holiday. Celebrations in Ocurí kicked off with a town talent show with a mix of dances, skits, traditional music, and even a one-man-magic-show for the kids. Trinity made her way back to us after seeing...
Check Out this brief film from Wilderness Classroom – Paddling the Great Lakes – Key West, FL
These guys are collected data for researcher Val Klump through our Secchi Disk Project. If you are paddling the great lakes, you should be collecting data too!
News from the Wilderness Classroom – Paddling into Silver Islet, Visiting Porphyry Point Lighthouse
One week ago we were camped on Pie Island in Thunder Bay. Now we are on Vein Island in Nipigon Bay. It's hard to imagine we are now 100 miles further along on our journey. But we still have so many more miles to go. The first night this week we paddled into Silver...
Tres Chicas Locas’ South American Expedition – Finding Love While Trekking Bolivia
We've already enjoyed a wonderful three weeks in Bolivia - time is flying! I'm going to cover the first half of our Bolivian adventure thus far in this blog post and Shelley is going to cover the second half in an upcoming blog post. What we love about Bolivia. As we...
Biking for Conservation – Team Epoch on Board for Roadkill Project!
During our stay in LA, we were given the opportunity through Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation (ASC) to lay the groundwork for an entirely new cycling research program aimed at protecting animals and reducing roadkill. Gregg Treinish,...