Yosemite High Route
We’re going the wrong way.Tugging at the long red braid of his beard, Konstantin glares at the maze of jagged boulders ahead as if to intimidate them into clearing a path.
The Giant Cultural Parasite
I remember the exact day that I first encountered the theory of memetics. I was lying on a picnic table bench across from my wife in Bishop, CA in July of 2017. We had just finished...
The Lost Coast
In 1936, the engineers constructing California’s Pacific Coast Highway rerouted their plans in Mendocino and Humboldt counties and turned the highway inland. The problem...
A Walk in the Klamath Basin
An outboard engine spasms to life behind me, a great rattling noise against the serenity of the lake, then disintegrates into a thousand ruffles and throbbing palpatations. I turn...
Nick Burdick, Artist Bio
Nick Burdick writes about California’s wild places. His bi-weekly newsletter, Intrinsic, is for nature-minded people who believe that the most important things can’t be measured with money or status.