Good Nature Travel Blog

  • U.S. National Parks

    Video: Hike Yosemite’s Half Dome, in High Definition

    Apr 23, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I’m not a big fan of experiencing high places, as most of you who follow this column know! But I do love being in the outdoors in natural places, especially in our national parks, so I appreciate the ability to carry out such a feat vicariously—and virtually.

  • News & More

    Yosemite to Cut Trees for Better Views

    Aug 23, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    “These darn trees are getting in the way of my view of nature,” joked one of my guides on a trip to British Columbia a few years back. We had stopped during a hike on a forested esker and were trying to look through the woods to a lake far below.

  • Travel Tales

    Travel Traditions

    May 31, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Some travel traditions wind up being big and grand, such as when a couple goes on an African safari for a honeymoon and then decides to celebrate each wedding anniversary with the same kind of expedition.