Entries by Cody

68 North V2.0

68 North – Lofoten Islands Photography I’ve finally finished up the re-design of my 68north.com website, my Lofoten Islands photo gallery.  I wrote some 6,000+ words of new content and have expanded things out to include travel and hiking info.  It’s not 100% finished at the moment, but I’m pretty happy with how things turned […]

Summer Sun

Photo: Summer sun over Kjerkfjord, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  July 2010 Today is the beginning of nearly two months of the midnight sun on the Lofoten Islands.  While summer is still a few weeks away, starts wont shine in the sky again until August. I’ve been a bit absent of late.  Partly because I haven’t done […]

Mount Whitney

Photo: Night descends on camp at Iceberg lake with Mt. Whitney in background, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.  April 2012 Over the weekend my brother and I attempted a quick trip up the Mountaineers Route on Mt. Whitney, California’s highest mountain.  We were a bit rushed on time, with my brother having a motorcycle race starting […]

Mount Whitney

Photo: Sunrise on east face of Mount Whitney, Sierra Nevada mountains, California.  May 2010 If everything has gone alright, something similar to this should be my view this morning and I should be on the top in a few hours…

Santa Cruz Island Fox

Photo: Island Fox, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands national park, California.  April 2012 The Island Fox is native to 6 of the 8 California Channel Islands, with each island containing it’s own subspecies of the island fox. By the year 2000, the fox population on Santa Cruz island had declined to around 135 adults.  The […]

Channel Islands Sailing – Santa Cruz Painted Cave

Photo: Sailing towards Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands national park, California.  April 2012 …Continuing from my last post –click here– After leaving San Miguel Island we arrived at our first nights anchorage on the islands at Becher’s Bay on Santa Rosa Island.  The next day we departed in mid morning and sailed towards Santa Cruz […]

San Miguel Island – Channel Islands National Park

Photo: Panoramic view of anchorage at Cuyler Harbor, San Miguel Island, Channel Islands National Park, California.  April 2012 Last week was a double first for me: my first time on a sailboat and more importantly, my first time on the Channel Islands.  Despite looking at the islands nearly every days since I was born, it […]

Baltic Gold- Searching for Amber on the Lithuanian Coast

Photo: Amber from the shores of the Baltic Sea, Curonian Spit, Lithuania.  Oct 2011 My first visit to the Curonian Spit on the Baltic coast of Lithuania was in February 2007.  I had been planning a whole trip up through the Baltics to Finland, but that never happened as I retreated from the cold and […]

Montana De Oro – California

Photo: Rugged coastal landscape of Montana De Oro State Park, California.  March 2012 From Thursday to Sunday I was up camping at Montana De Oro State Park.  It’s only 2 hours north from me here in Santa Barbara but this is only the second time I’ve been there; the first being only last year and […]

Lofoten Islands Autumn and Winter

Photo: Cliffs at Å in Autumn, Lofoten Islands, Norway.  Sept. 2011 What a difference a few months make to the mood of a landscape.  This scene is at and the end of the cliffs past the village of Å.  It is pretty much the furthest west/south one can easily get on the islands.  To proceed […]