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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Glacier National Park, MT – The Garden Wall
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February 25, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Where I live in California, springtime is on approach. Many trees are no longer bare, sprouting pink or white blossoms …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: blooms, blossoms, Brown-eyed Susan, California, Englemann aster, Fireweed, Garden Wall, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Highline Trail, hike, Indian Paintbrush, Logan Pass, Montana, nature, outdoors, Rocky Mountains, Rosy spirea, trailhead, Visitor Center, wildflowers
Yosemite National Park, CA – Waterfalls and Ephemerals
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February 18, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

What do you think of first when you think of Yosemite Valley in the springtime? Half Dome? El Capitan? The …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: "nature's firefall", Ahwahnee Hotel, audible gusto, beauteous, bounteous, Bridalveil Fall, car, Curry Village, El Capitan, ephemerals, Glacier Point, granite, granite sentries, Half Dome, Happy Isles, hiking, Horsetail Fall, iconic landmarks, Illilouette Fall, Merced River, Mist Trail, nature's artistry, Nevada Fall, outdoors, Panorama Trail, roars over the brink, Royal Arch Cascade, Staircase Falls, thunderous, trail, trail conditions, trek, Upper and lower falls, Vernal Fall, waterfalls, Yosemite, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ – Two Fine Days
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February 11, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

It was sometime in the 1960’s, early morning of a spring day in Arizona. Really cold outside, gray, threatening sky. …
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Category: National Monuments | Tags: 1960's, 1995, A SUMMER'S TRADE, anazasi, Antelope House ruins, Arizona, barefoot ford, Canyon de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto, Chinle wash, cliff dwelling, family, farming, four young children, handmade jewelry, hiking, icy, Irving Toddy, July, livestock, Lodge House ruins, National Park memories, National Park Service, native art, Navajo Nation, Navajos, open-air buses, outdoors, overlooks, permit and guide, photos, priceless experiences, public trail, radiated heat, redrock canyon walls, ruins, Salina Bookshelf, seared southwestern blue, shade, spring morning, switchbacks, threatening sky, three-year-old, trail, trailhead, tunnel, vacation, White House ruin
Point Reyes National Seashore, CA – Postscript
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February 4, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

On the day we hiked the Coast Trail to Alamere Falls (see last week’s post), we ended our outing in …
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Category: National Seashores | Tags: Alamere Falls, Coast Trail, late afternoon, nature, outdoors, outing, Pacific Ocean, Point Reyes Lighthouse, shores, South Beach, surf

Going out is really going in.

Monthly Archives: February 2013

Glacier National Park, MT – The Garden Wall

Yosemite National Park, CA – Waterfalls and Ephemerals

Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ – Two Fine Days

Point Reyes National Seashore, CA – Postscript

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out ’til sundown, for going out, I found I was really going in.” John Muir

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