Lately, my mind has been wandering. (Okay, just more than it usually does.) Physically constrained as I’ve been by Covid-19, the restlessness that haunts my every spring trends exponential. On those rare days when the Brockport air is leavened by a gentle southwestern wind and the sky glows blue as robin’s eggs, the urge to […]

In the late afternoon I drive out from Baker (population 68), cross U.S. Route 50, and take the long and lonely road running north towards Gandy, Utah, and the 12,000-foot-high Deep Creek Range. The gravel road tracks the eastern edge of the Moriah Range through the Snake Valley, on past an occasional ranch or ramshackle […]