Day 2 of our road trip through the Southwest brought us to Zion National Park, see the Southwest USA Landscape gallery. We had in mind to go hike into the Narrows for several hours, but since the water was supposedly waist-high and about 45 degrees Fahrenheit, we quickly changed plans and did things the easy [...]
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After the conference in San Francisco I went straight to the Netherlands to spend the holidays with my family. One thing I am missing in Southern California is the lack of seasons. Well – winter I got! It was well below freezing for most of the time, and the day I arrived a lot of [...]
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A few days ago, the main road through the San Gabriel Mountains, Highway 2 or Angeles Crest Highway, was reopened. It had been severely damaged in the Station Fire: signs, rails, stripings and parts of the road itself were burnt, molten or destroyed by rockfall. As a refresher (I doubt you will need one): the [...]
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Tagged: Abstract, Fire, Los Angeles, Nature, Trees
This Sunday it was time for the Geophysics Fault field trip with the Caltech Seismolab, with as our destination Devil’s Punchbowl at the north side of the San Gabriel Mountains. I have never hiked much in the northern parts, and frankly I was getting a little bored of the San Gabes – usually consisting of [...]
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After experiencing the fall season in Europe, I couldn’t stay home for fall in the Sierras of course. In October, I went together with Floris (check out his amazing work!) to Owens Valley and Lake Tahoe. We wanted to photograph aspen in fall colors, and also see the spawning of thousands of Kokanee salmon in [...]
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Tagged: Nature, Sierra Nevada, Trees, Water