Your Monday #15: On your own two feet
A 1-minute exercise to strengthen and train the muscles you use to stay on your feet. A dynamic balance exercise you can do on a balance board or a pillow. Summer's coming: time to get ready for surfing.
Slower Sunday: Narrow space, park views
If you ever wonder why people hike all the way out and up to places likes this, well, it's probably for the view. So here we are - let's enjoy the view. Press Play.
Angels Landing: The Wonder
I celebrated National Parks Week a little early this year. I started in Zion National Park. Just before sunrise, on the banks of the Virgin River in southern Utah. Ended up on Angels Landing. It's a wonder you can actually get there. And it's wonderful when you do.
Walk & Eat The Lobster Tail Trails
Maine's Acadia National Park has dozens of scenic trails with wonderful ocean, mountain, bay and island views. And that luscious lobster roll has less than a third of the calories you burned on your Way up and down Sargent Mountain.
The Point of Observation: Seeing Zion
From Observation Point in Zion National Park, you almost sense geological time. You see how a meandering river spent ten million years cutting through thousands of feet of sandstone and limestone. Carving the contours of massive geological features.
Seven Mile Hole
The Yellowstone hike that has it all. Cliffs and mountainsides. Meadows where you expect to see bison. Forests. Wide-open moonscapes with bubbling, steaming geothermal pots. Wildly colorful canyon walls. And the view from the bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Right alongside the great rushing river.
A Call to Arms. And Legs.
A few years ago we celebrated the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service. This year, we'll have to keep fighting to protect it from the Republican Party. Smoky the Bear's not kidding when he says "only you can prevent forest fires". Because he might be defunded. Click to see three of our National Parks.
When humans walked the Earth every Day
It's Earth Day. Get back to where you once belonged. On your feet. We've been walking upright for a few million years. It's how we got places. Your highly evolved body still expects you to be walking everywhere. So many Ways.
Slower Sunday: April Showers
I used to think they were only good for May flowers. But when you stop to look at them, these raindrops are pretty good looking. Maybe even mesmerizing if you just let yourself go for a minute. And you should. So Press Play.
Matzos. Passover not required.
Whether you're leaving Egypt in a big hurry or you just want to make a great flatbread in a few minutes. Delicious and easy because it's got olive oil in it. Infinitely better than those square things that come in a box. Delicious and satisfying anytime.