“The mountains are calling, and I must go.” John Muir perfectly sums up our feelings about these majestic natural wonders. Mountains have always been a source of awe and beauty, and sometimes we don't ...

7 billion years ago during the Precambrian Era. 0 billion years old, making them among the oldest rocks found in the United States. 6 billion years ago, massive volumes of magma pushed into these ...

When the days shorten and getting out into the hills becomes harder, there’s a particular comfort in opening a book that can take you there instead. Mountain writing can be bold and full of grit, but ...

This is the first in a series called “Ancient Alabama,” examining the natural forces that made Alabama what it is over the past 500 million years, and how those forces still shape the state today.

If you offered to transport me anywhere on Earth for a day, I’d choose a meadow in India beneath the mountain of my dreams. Picture it: a long crescent ridge curls uphill, then sharpens into a ...

IT may be fair to wonder whether the people who spend the summer in the Adirondacks, or what used to be called, unadvisedly for purposes of advertisement, the White Hills, or who corroborate or ...

I was recently driving northbound on Highway 395, headed home after spending Thanksgiving in Southern California. I’ve driven this road countless times, traversing the eastern edge of the Sierra ...