This past September, I was fortunate to have guided a group of twelve OBP clients on a wildlife watching expedition in Yellowstone National Park. We lucked out with weather and with wildlife sightings, and it was wonderful to focus on just one national park and ecosystem over six days, too. What I love most about […]

As fall settles over Southcentral Alaska in a brief burst of gold, birches gleam against the dark spruce that cover the lower slopes of the Kenai Mountains. It’s a fleeting season, and I was fortunate to be rafting 17 miles of the Kenai River when the colors were at their peak. Flaming trees lined the […]

Fog Lifts “In this weather, you’d step on a moose before you’d see one.” Larry Benz was standing with his hands on his hips, squinting out the glass doors of his hand-built cabin at the northern boundary of Chugach National Forest, Alaska. The usual, sweeping vista of yellow and chartreuse pines was veiled in a […]