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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Here Comes the Sun
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October 28, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

On the morning we left the Park, Mount Rainier shed its invisibility cloak, dropping it down into the valleys below. …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: Alta Vista, Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, nature, outdoors, Washington, wildflowers
Yosemite National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: Hiking High
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October 21, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

It’s not what you think. Or maybe it absolutely is. I’m referring to our hike to Gaylor Lakes that started …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 57 new National Park miles, 60-mile goal, 9900 feet, Cathedral group, Cathedral Peak, east entrance station, Gaylor Lakes, Granite Lake, hike, hiking, Lower Gaylor Lake, Middle Gaylor Lake, Mount Dana, Mount Gibbs, mountains, nature, outdoors, recent snowfall, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, serendipitous flavoring, surrounding peaks, switchbacking, trail, tree line, Tuolumne Meadows, Unicorn Peak, Upper Gaylor Lake, well over 10000 feet, white frosting, Yosemite
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: A Walk on the Wild(fire) Side
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October 14, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Looking for a hike in Lassen Park that I had never before taken (there are not many), I decided that …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 60 miles in 2013, Big Bear Lake, blackened, burn area, campground, Cluster Lakes, destruction, devastating, fairly strenuous, hike, Lassen Park, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Little Bear Lake, manzanita, Mt. Lassen, nature, outdoors, Reading Fire, summit lake, trail, trailhead, wildfire
Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Sixty in 2013: Now You See It . . .
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October 7, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

Back in August before our own government shut down our National Parks, we were lucky to spend three nights and …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: "invisibility cloak, 320 feet high, chill drizzle, Christine Falls, Comet Falls, good workout, hike, impenetrable fog, Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, nature, outdoors, Paradise, Park Rangers, popular trailhead, shutdown, side canyon, single log bridge, tall blue bonnet, thunderous flows, trail, Van Trump Creek, Visitor Center, waterfalls, white roiling water, whitewater, Wiggins lily, wildflowers, wooden bridge

Going out is really going in.

Monthly Archives: October 2013

Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Here Comes the Sun

Yosemite National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: Hiking High

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: A Walk on the Wild(fire) Side

Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Sixty in 2013: Now You See It . . .

“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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