Author: Michael Modzelewski
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THE WAVE, UTAH
[slideshow_deploy id=’1434′] The most unusual rock formation in the world. The water-stream erosion Navajo Sandstone, 190 million years old, is a heart flayed open, taffy gone wild, a hallucination in stone! Located near the Utah-Arizona border in the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness. The BLM limits access to just 20 permits per day, for the sandstone…
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ANTELOPE CANYON, ARIZONA
[slideshow_deploy id=’1425′] A slot canyon on Navajo Land, just outside Page, Arizona. You go in with a native Navajo Guide. The colors in the sandstone are pastels, from pink to purple. And the narrow, twisting formations create amazing forms — a Spirit Bear silhouette, a Candle, a Human Embryo. A spiritual place. An Earth Cathedral. My church.
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ST. GEORGE, UTAH
[slideshow_deploy id=’1418′] A tribal pre-start, with 7,000 runners in October seated cross-legged 4,000 feet up in the mountains around mesquite fire-pits to stay warm. A hilly, scenic course, mostly downhill through red rock country. Like running through an old western movie.
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
[slideshow_deploy id=’1411′] A beautiful run in Paradise. Santa Barbara is the very essence of the laid-back, palm tree, gentle surf, and sunshine California vibe and the only area along the Cali Coast that curves southward. After crossing the finish line — a slam dunk in the Pacific Ocean!
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LAUGHTON GLACIER, ALASKA
[slideshow_deploy id=’1396′] There are 100,000 glaciers in Alaska (of varying sizes) and 95% are in retreat, melting back in our era of global warming. Explored Laughton Glacier above Skagway, Alaska. Glaciers carve drama and splendor into the landscapes. Both bulldozer and conveyor belt, the sticky ice picks up rocks that it uses chock-a-block to…
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Michael Modzelewski Radio Interview via Podcast, Cleveland, Ohio –The Kovacs Perspective
Host Steve Kovacs: “Michael is the best interview in my entire media career!”
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In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods*
Why climb a mountain? Short answer (from George Mallory): “Because it is there.” Longer response (from Reinhold Messner): “Most people are not interested in personal experience. The concept that one can willingly tax one’s physical and mental resources out of a pure joy of living: that one can become obsessed with a hunger to experience…
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TRACY ARM FJORD, ALASKA
[slideshow_deploy id=’1375′] A glacier-carved masterpiece, Tracy Arm Fjord winds narrow and serpentine for 26 miles into the southeast Alaska coastline. 4,000 foot granite rock walls soar straight up out of ocean 1,000 feet deep; waterfalls cascade down in silver plumes; mountain goats prance and dance across the vertical escarpments; seals sun themselves on pan-ice tabletops; garlands of…
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Michael Modzelewski Radio Interview via Podcast, Panama City, Panama — “Just Between Us”
Love, sex and monogamy: the Biologist (Michael Modzelewski) and Psychologist (Dr. Jackie Black) duke it out.
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Michael Modzelewski Radio Interview via Podcast, Santa Cruz, CA — “Consciously Speaking”
Host Michael Neeley and Michael M talk about manifesting your own destiny.