Craig Walker's Personal Home Page

This page mainly contains photos from some of my trips.

I am an astronomer retired, with emeritus position, from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Click here for my NRAO home page.

A hike in the Magdalena Mountains.
For this hike near Socorro, I went up North Baldy using a cutoff between Forest Road 39 and Trail 8 to check the feasibility of making a trail there.



Lower Salmon River raft trip in July 2023.



Hells Canyon raft trip in 2022.



Climb of Colorado's Mt Harvard (14420) during the July 4 weekend in 2021.



Backpack in the Gila Wilderness in April 2021.



Hells Canyon raft trip in 2017.



Mike and Jessie Wrobel's 65th wedding anniversary.
Includes visits to Jan (my sister) and Rich's ranch and a drive down the Icefields Parkway.



Rafting the Grande Ronde River in 2016.



Family visit to Alberta in January 2014



Middle Fork of the Salmon raft trip 2013



Tatshenshini/Alsek raft trip in 2012.



Trip to Alberta in Sept. 2012 to attend the 60th wedding anniversary of my wife Joan's parents and to visit my sister Jan.



Green River Canoeing in Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons, Oct. 2011.



Green River, Gates of Lodore, June 2010.



Canada in July-August 2009 So far this is just photos from the wedding of Gill Luttrell and Joe Box. There will be more later, I hope.

San Juan River Raft Trip in June 2009.



Grand Canyon Raft Trip 2008 photos



Photos from the May 2007 Intergalactic Jets Meeting in Girdwood Alaska and related activities including a sea kayak day trip in Blackstone Bay, Prince William Sound.



June 2007 rafting trips The Rio Chama and Rio Grande in New Mexico.



Running Desolation Canyon and the Lower Stikine In July and August of 2006, I rafted Desolation and Gray Canyons of the Green River in Utah and the Lower Stikine River in British Columbia.



Canoeing on the Thelon River in Canada's Northwest Territories and Nunavut in August 2004



Sierra backpacking:Backpacking in the Sierra Nevada in California in August 2003



Greenland sea kayaking: A few photos from my sea kayaking trip in Greenland during the summer of 2001. The above photo was taken on that trip.



Horton River: Canoeing the Horton River in the Northwest Territories in 1996.



Coppermine River: Canoeing the Coppermine River in the Northwest Territories in 1987. This was my first arctic canoe trip and is the trip on which I met Kerry Luttrell. Kerry and I have done many trips together since - see most of the water-based trips above.



Denali in 1986: Climb of Denali with Dave Wunker and Bob Mutel.



Mt. Vancouver in 1975: First ascent of the Northeast Ridge of Mt. Vancouver in the St. Elias range, Yukon with people mainly from the MIT Outing Club.



Wind River Mountains in 1974: Backcountry climbing trip to the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, in 1974 with members of the MIT Outing Club.



A collection of photos for Joan's family: Various photos over the years of Joan and of Joan's family.



Miscellaneous Photos



Ancient pots from Bob Walker's estate