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Exploration documentaries – "explorumentaries" list trip stats and highlights of each hike or bike ride, often with some interesting history or geology. Years ago, I wrote these for friends and family to let them know what my husband, Fred and I were up to on weekends, and also to showcase the incredible land of the west.

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Sue Birnbaum

A trip to Jumbo Rocks Campground in Joshua Tree National Monument 37 years ago sparked my passion for hiking, exploring, and learning about desert ecosystems. For the past 25 years, my husband Fred and I have explored the American West together; we love this land and I hope to inspire you to get out and explore through my photographs and trip descriptions.
In 1992, Ray Wilson and I conceived the first Cactus to Clouds hike which climbs over 10,000 feet in one day to the summit of Mt. San Jacinto near Palm Springs, California.

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Some of my favorite websites:

Awkward Botany
citizen botany for the phytocurious

Bird and Hike
"Intended to encourage people to visit, learn about, and fall in love with the desert."

Draw and Shoot
Beautiful Photography

Earthline: The American West
Debra "writes to extol our beloved Earth." Detailed hike info, excellently written.

Geologypics.com
Geology and Geologic Time through Photographs

Glenn Suokko
Vermont artist's paintings "inspired by a place based on the land .... drawn to painting the representation and abstraction of nature."

In the Company of Plants and Rocks
A natural history blog about botany, plant ecology, and geology.

Nature's Depths
Walking through nature with John Palka, a neuroscientist who loves plants and ponders big questions

Rangewriter - What Comes Next?
With excellent writing, Linda tells the story of her unique mother's life including WWII era; with beautiful photographs.

SeekingLost - Hiking and Backpacking Adventures.

Stav Is Lost- Unconventional, out-of-the way hikes in the American West.

Uprooted Magnolia
Leah Yetter's beautiful "photo journal on life, love, and the spirit of Wyoming."

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