Richard Fleck

North by East to Iceland: Part 2 Prince Edward Island
A Winter Crossing to Prince Edward Island Just a few days earlier (a half century ago), I was taking notes in a French literature class at Rutgers...
North by East to Iceland: Part 1
Flashing Memories Over Nova Scotia Well into our cruising altitude out of JFK, we sat aboard IcelandAir for our first ever trip to Reykjavik...
Rambles Across the Isle of Man
My brother-in-law and I took the Isle of Man ferry boat from Belfast, Northern Ireland out into the Irish Sea for three hours until the boat pulled...
Black Canyon of the Gunnison : A Place of Wonder
Maura and I drove for two hours east of Grand Junction, Colorado through pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush country ever upward to the rim. Suddenly...
A Strange Switch: a short story set in early...
He held up his rifle and aimed at the poacher who was about to shoot a bull elk. But he still had a difficult time saying what he was ordered to say...
Corkscrew Swamp: A Great Place to Explore Florida as...
Cork Screw Swamp Sanctuary on Florida’s West Coast contains numerous wetland eco-zones that remain undisturbed from pine lands to cypress...
Revisiting Rocky Mountain National Park 50 Years Later
Mount Chapin in Rocky Mountain National Park I cannot believe that it has been fifty years now since I served as a park ranger naturalist (now known...
A Nighttime Ascent of Longs Peak
Stars shone with absolute brilliance as I drove across Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park to meet my fellow rangers who would climb...
A Serendipitous Breakfast in Yellowstone
We had taken the trail to Cascade Lake north of Canyon Village the day before. The trail wound its way through lodgepole pine forests and open...
Hiking High in the Catskills
The ancient Catskill Mountains remain refreshingly wild even though they are but a two-hour drive from New York City. Two summits (Slide and Hunter)...
Arizona High
The skies were a bit cloudy and it was cool in northern Arizona. We arrived in a much hotter Page, Arizona where I gave a talk on John Wesley...
If You Are Going to Ireland, Newgrange is a Must
Newgrange prehistoric site (also known as Bru Na Boinne) is located just 20 miles north of Dublin near the city of Drogheda in County Meath. You can...
Mysterious Prehistoric Sites of Brittany
There are many hundreds of neolithic and megalithic sites throughout Brittany in western France, especially near Carnac in the south-central...
A Backcountry Adventure in Ute Mountain Tribal...
Taking a guided hiking tour along a seven-mile trail in Ute Mountain Reservation is a vigorous way to inspire the mind and body of the canyon...
Fuji San: Climbing Among the Stars
Mount Fuji in Deep Snow based on Hokusai Fuji San*I woke up freezing at 2 am. An old man snored heavily, and the echoes of his roaring snore filled...
A Cross Country Descent into the Laramie Plains
Cross Country Descent Three families from Laramie trusted my judgment that a winding canyon paralleling Interstate-80 would indeed come out onto the...