DCraig Young -- Trail Option
@trailoption.bsky.social
See it through Art - Know it through Science. Host of TrailOption, chasing landforms and light, bound to wander and wonder. Solidly mid-pack trail runner, photographer, geographer, musician, and writer.
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Choices. Hwy 50, Great Basin Desert, NV, USA
July 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Choices. Hwy 50, Great Basin Desert, NV, USA
Camped in a small back-berm playette on the broad alluvial fan of Miller Canyon extending from the House Range in western Utah. The pleasures of geoarchaeological fieldwork in the Great Basin Desert -- evening skies and a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird saying hello in the morning. Keep going.
July 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Camped in a small back-berm playette on the broad alluvial fan of Miller Canyon extending from the House Range in western Utah. The pleasures of geoarchaeological fieldwork in the Great Basin Desert -- evening skies and a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird saying hello in the morning. Keep going.
New Fieldnotes blog at trailoption.com; wandering on Pilot Peak in central Nevada, #130. Small section of Quaternary landforms to map, but a great evening just the same. Check it out.
Off to Tularosa Basin in New Mexico this week. Supporting our National Parks and their natural science. Keep going.
Off to Tularosa Basin in New Mexico this week. Supporting our National Parks and their natural science. Keep going.
March 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
New Fieldnotes blog at trailoption.com; wandering on Pilot Peak in central Nevada, #130. Small section of Quaternary landforms to map, but a great evening just the same. Check it out.
Off to Tularosa Basin in New Mexico this week. Supporting our National Parks and their natural science. Keep going.
Off to Tularosa Basin in New Mexico this week. Supporting our National Parks and their natural science. Keep going.
Back from Antarctica, back into the Great Basin... considering my role as scientist and geographer in amazing landscapes. We can do better. trailoption.substack.com/p/waypoint-2...
February 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Back from Antarctica, back into the Great Basin... considering my role as scientist and geographer in amazing landscapes. We can do better. trailoption.substack.com/p/waypoint-2...
Waypoint: Antarctica
Sensuosity. Lost in the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
#Antarctica #MuenchPhotography #trailoption.com
Sensuosity. Lost in the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
#Antarctica #MuenchPhotography #trailoption.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Waypoint: Antarctica
Sensuosity. Lost in the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
#Antarctica #MuenchPhotography #trailoption.com
Sensuosity. Lost in the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
#Antarctica #MuenchPhotography #trailoption.com
I have the very good fortunate to return to Antarctica next month. So in easy motivation, I'm posting up some of my 2023 images from a trip of great adventure and great new friends. #antarctica #photography #muenchphotography #trailoption
January 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I have the very good fortunate to return to Antarctica next month. So in easy motivation, I'm posting up some of my 2023 images from a trip of great adventure and great new friends. #antarctica #photography #muenchphotography #trailoption
I stood here over 30 years ago, in the heat of a Nevada summer afternoon, visiting my friend Lynn, a longtime archaeologist and sometime fire lookout. He was on fire-duty, while I was leading a university team...
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January 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I stood here over 30 years ago, in the heat of a Nevada summer afternoon, visiting my friend Lynn, a longtime archaeologist and sometime fire lookout. He was on fire-duty, while I was leading a university team...
trailoption.com/nevada-high-...
trailoption.com/nevada-high-...
Nevada High Point #126 - Adobe Range
This is a long outing, I am headed for fieldwork on the Old River Bed in the West Desert of Utah, but I cannot pass up a chance to check out a Nevada high point along the way.
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This is a long outing, I am headed for fieldwork on the Old River Bed in the West Desert of Utah, but I cannot pass up a chance to check out a Nevada high point along the way.
trailoption.com/nevada-high-...
December 28, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Nevada High Point #126 - Adobe Range
This is a long outing, I am headed for fieldwork on the Old River Bed in the West Desert of Utah, but I cannot pass up a chance to check out a Nevada high point along the way.
trailoption.com/nevada-high-...
This is a long outing, I am headed for fieldwork on the Old River Bed in the West Desert of Utah, but I cannot pass up a chance to check out a Nevada high point along the way.
trailoption.com/nevada-high-...
It is often the little ones that I enjoy most. Here to map inset landforms at lava's edge, I find Brewer's Sparrows and Rock Wrens, reminders that small birds bring a calming joy and flitting beauty before the harshness of the desert day.
#birds #MojaveDesert #photography #trailoption.com
#birds #MojaveDesert #photography #trailoption.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:19 PM
It is often the little ones that I enjoy most. Here to map inset landforms at lava's edge, I find Brewer's Sparrows and Rock Wrens, reminders that small birds bring a calming joy and flitting beauty before the harshness of the desert day.
#birds #MojaveDesert #photography #trailoption.com
#birds #MojaveDesert #photography #trailoption.com
Spent Saturday morning with @darond.bsky.social gouging around Sandy Valley along the border of southern Nevada and southeastern California. Here are preserved some exception examples of fossil trackways, or ichnofacies, created by camels of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene. #geoarchaeology
November 18, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Spent Saturday morning with @darond.bsky.social gouging around Sandy Valley along the border of southern Nevada and southeastern California. Here are preserved some exception examples of fossil trackways, or ichnofacies, created by camels of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene. #geoarchaeology