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Yosemite National Park, CA: Sixty in 2013 – Footprints in the Snow
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September 30, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Two weekends ago, we in the San Francisco Bay Area were shocked by the unseasonable deluge that poured down from …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: early snowfall, first day of autumn, glorious afternoon, gorgeous views, high country, higher elevations, Highway 120, hike, human footprints, National Park experience, once-in-a-lifetime, photographs, snow, snow and icy conditions, spectacular scene, Tenaya Lake, Tioga Road, trail, unseasonable deluge, Yosemite, Yosemite National Park
Sixty in 2013: Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – On a Clear Day . . .
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September 16, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll remember that several weeks ago, I posted a photograph of a fire lookout …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 360 degree view, blazes, Brokeoff, butterflies, Chester, clear day, Coast Range, fire lookout, fire season, forest, hike, Juniper Lake, Juniper Lake campground, Juniper Lake Loop, Lassen National Park, Lassen Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, lupine, manzanita, meadows, mid-July, mountain, Mt. Ashland, Mt. Diablo, Mt. Harkness, Mt. Shasta, nature, Oregon, outdoors, Sierras, smoky skies, swimming, switchbacks, timber line, trail, trail junction
Sixty in 2013: Olympic National Park, WA – A Natural Hat Trick
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September 9, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Before we visited Olympic National Park this summer, we decided we wanted to hike to Sol Duc Falls because of …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 1.6 miles round trip, backpackers, bug spray, Canyon Falls, climbed, deep forest, Deer Lake, hat trick, Highway 101, hiking, July afternoon, mosquitoes, mostly level, nature, Olympic National Park, outdoors, overlook, parking lot, popular, refreshing spray, Sol Duc Falls, Soleduck Falls, Soleduck Trail, Soleduck Valley, tent, trailhead, trails, Washington, water to drink, waterfall, wooden bridge
Sixty in 2013: Oregon Caves National Monument – Spelunking in the Beaver State
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September 2, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Tucked into the southwest corner of the state of Oregon, not on the way to or from anywhere, at the …
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Category: National Monuments | Tags: 23 guest rooms, 90 minutes, ascent, bending and twisting, brook babbling, cave, cave entrance, Cave Junction, descent, double-sided fireplace, elevation, Elijah Davidson, engaged and entertained, expansive lobby, features, frigid body parts, geology, hike, history, inhabitants, living and fossilized, low ceilings, main exit, metal ladders, moderately strenuous, narrow paths, National Historic Landmark, Oregon, Oregon Caves Chateau, Oregon Caves National Monument, ponderosa pine pillars, Ranger Cedar, refrigerator, spelunkers, spelunking, stories, temperature, three quarters of a mile, tour, trail, Visitor Center, wet stone steps

Going out is really going in.

Monthly Archives: September 2013

Yosemite National Park, CA: Sixty in 2013 – Footprints in the Snow

Sixty in 2013: Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – On a Clear Day . . .

Sixty in 2013: Olympic National Park, WA – A Natural Hat Trick

Sixty in 2013: Oregon Caves National Monument – Spelunking in the Beaver State

“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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