LLRULE JOURNALS — DISPATCH
IN OUR OWN WORDS.
The origin, the process, the wash, the why. LLRULE, written by LLRULE.
PRISTINE · AUTHENTIC · ORIGINAL
DISPATCH
The Cotton That Earns Its Name
It started in the Arizona desert in 1900 and took its name from the people who grew it. Today it is about 1% of the...
TERRAIN
The Creek and the Break
When herbicide from Orange County flood channels ran into the surf, Creek Team OC started filming, and made the results public.
After the Fire
Black Summer burned 46 million acres and forced ecologists to rewrite everything they thought they knew about how forests recover.
The Run
Every autumn, Pacific chinook fight their way home against the current. What happens when the rivers stop waiting for them?
The Underwater Forest
From California to Tasmania, kelp forests are vanishing at alarming speed. In Norway and Japan, scientists are racing to bring them back.
ROOTS: A Day in the Life of Planting Forests
Follow a professional tree planter into Oregon's Coast Range, one seedling, one hole, one slope at a time, and see why reforestation is upstream of...
"I Saw a Bird Today – Rediscovering Wonder in the Wild"
We have forgotten how to look. A single bird sighting can unlock something ancient in us, a capacity for attention that the modern world keeps...
THE DRIFT
The Fly Box
The fly box is a record of where you have been and what the river asked for. The patterns that earn their place, and how...
The Smith River Float
The Smith River does not give itself up easily. A permit lottery, 59 miles of canyon from Camp Baker to Eden Bridge, and a float...
Cold Water, Warming Fast
A July reading of 72 degrees on the Yellowstone River is the temperature at which trout stop feeding. What warming western waters mean for the...
The Henry's Fork: A River That Humbles
Four miles of Railroad Ranch on Idaho's Henry's Fork. The fish are large, the water is clear and slow, and the river humbles everyone who...
Before the Hatch
The sky is graphite, the thermometer reads 41 degrees, and the river is talking before anyone else is listening. This is the hour before the...
The Deschutes: High Desert, Cold River
The Deschutes drops out of the Cascades and runs 252 miles through the Oregon high desert, carrying summer steelhead and native redband trout through basalt...
Go before the heat arrives. Red rock. 5:30am. The trail is yours.
Running Sedona
TRAILHEAD
Acadia: The First Light
From October to March, the first sunlight in the United States lands on Cadillac Mountain. Running Acadia at first light, from granite summit to iron...
Mount Rainier: Ninety-Three Miles Around a Volcano
The Wonderland Trail exists to circle one fact: Mount Rainier is a volcano. Ninety-three miles around 26 named glaciers and the highest peak in the...
Rocky Mountain: The Air Above Twelve
The alarm goes off at 2:30 a.m. in Estes Park. Nine miles and 5,100 feet to the summit of Longs Peak, and the lightning does...
Grand Teton: No Foothills, No Warning
Most mountain ranges give you foothills first. The Tetons do not. Running Cascade Canyon beneath a wall of granite that rises 7,000 feet in six...
Glacier: Running with Bears
You carry bear spray from the moment you step out at Logan Pass. Running Glacier's Highline Trail along the Garden Wall, through the heart of...
Yosemite: Above the Valley Floor
The trail up Half Dome begins in shadow at Happy Isles. A vertical mile, the cables, and the view from above Yosemite Valley.
