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View fullsize White prickly poppy and white light and fluffy. Welcome officially, summer, may you bring lots of continued energy for change. . . #becauseitsthere #clouds #underneathpics #pricklypoppy #colorado #hiking #explore #flowers #solstice #summer
View fullsize The best part about very long, solo road trips are moments like these. Back in January, driving across Nevada I watched the sun rise over the Ruby Mountains and cast a shadow on the morning mist dwelling in the valley. A clear line between light and
View fullsize Dientes de Navarino. An aerial view above Isla Navarino, the southernmost tip of Chile before land gives way to the tumultuous waters of the Drake Passage. . . #becauseitsthere #chile #patagonia #puertowilliams #islanavarino #remote #wild #travel #ad
View fullsize I love watching the world wake up. Another one from a 4 am wake up call to go from Jackson to Ketchum. For someone who travels frequently, forced time staying in one place is a great opportunity to reflect on where I’ve been, what I’ve le
View fullsize From a sunrise drive from Jackson, Wyoming to Ketchum, Idaho. Wow is our country beautiful. . . #becauseitsthere #roadtrip #idaho #mountains #livewild #openroad #sunrise
View fullsize “I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life.” - St Exupery . . #becauseitsthere #tetons #tetonnationalp
View fullsize In the mountains, in stormy weather with a camera in my hands and skis on my feet. Otherwise known as pure joy. Thank you to @wwheliski @ken.bibby and @chelseahsullivan for finding safe lines in the very deep, powdery White Wilderness. First skiing o
View fullsize *sound on*! This video isn’t much to look at and the sound of goretex swishing is more thunderous than I wish it was...but our Tanzanian guides singing us through the night as we climbed up steep switchbacks for 6 hours into the sunrise was one
View fullsize Hanging glaciers and clouds and ancient granite. Cerro Paine Grande was last climbed in 2018 (it has only been ascended 5 times) - the photos taken by those climbers are worth looking at. (@tolasenoret @maxdidier_ ) A stunning perspective earned from
View fullsize View of Lago Nordenskjold from from Mirador los Cuernos in Torres del Paine National Park. Paine means “blue” in the indigenous Tehuelche language, the shades of which seem to be endless... . . . #becauseitsthere #miradorloscuernos #cuern
View fullsize California, you reward us mightily with the small of salt water and redwood forests, the sight of the Pacific stretching from dizzyingly far below to the distant open ocean, the taste of wine by the road where disparate groups of sunset gapers gather
View fullsize Probably just another dimension, no big deal. . . #becauseitsthere #clouds #storm #california #marin #trails #trailrunning #training #nature #outlivingit #livewild