What makes a sea crossing different from every other way of covering the same distance is that you can see the distance being covered, and you are free to move…
This is not about equipment or technique. Almost all excess baggage is a decision problem rather than a folding problem, and the decisions are made before anything goes in the…
Every gorge answers two questions: what removed the rock, and why did the sides not fall in afterwards. The second is frequently the more interesting. Here are seventeen answers.
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None of this involves asking anybody anything or going anywhere in particular. It is a set of things to notice, and they are all available within a short walk of…
Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
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The question worth asking on any open plain is what is stopping the trees, because something is. Here are seventeen answers.
1. The Rainfall Squeeze
The basic temperate grassland occupies…