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Golden Gate Nat’l Rec Area – Full Moons, Football, Fog and Point Bonita Lighthouse
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September 4, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

I have a confession to make. I love lighthouses. So when there is a lighthouse within the National Park System …
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Category: National Parks, National Recreation Areas | Tags: Alcatraz Island, blue moon, California, fog, full moon, GGNPC, GGNRA, Gold Rush, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, hike, lighthouse, Point Bonita, San Francisco, trail
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Rhapsody
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August 28, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

This week I’d like to introduce you to my all-time favorite National Park. The Park that is a part of …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: Bumpass Hell, California, campsites, Cascade Mountains, children, climbing, geothermal, grandparents, hiking, Lake Helen, lakes, Lassen Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, snow, trails, volcano, waterfalls, wildflowers, Yellowstone
Zion National Park, UT – Angels Landing
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August 22, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

If you could hover a thousand feet or so above the Virgin River in Zion National Park, with unobstructed views …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: Angels Landing, climbing, hiking, Lombard Street, Observation Point, Refrigerator Canyon, teenagers, Utah, Walter's Wiggles, Zion National Park
Lava Beds NM: D-I-Y Spelunking
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August 15, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

If reading my post about a guided tour of Lehman Caves in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, whet your appetite …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks | Tags: bats, Becky Thatcher, California, caves, ice cave, Indian Paintbrush, Lava Beds, outdoors, spelunkng, Tom Sawyer, underground, volcanic
Getting to Great Basin NP
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August 7, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

I have a particular fondness for our neighboring state to the east. Many family road trip vacations, both when I …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: bristle cone pines, Great Basin, Las Vegas, Lehman Caves, Loneliest Road in America, Nevada, spelunking
Half Dome Is Waiting
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July 31, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

Have you ever thought about climbing to the top of Half Dome in California’s Yosemite National Park? Up the Mist …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: cables, California, Clouds Rest, Half Dome, Nevada Falls, permits, strenuous hike, Vernal Falls, Yosemite
Summer Surprise: Christmas in July!
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July 25, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

“Oh, we’ll spend Yuletide, down by the poolside This year let’s have Christmas in July.” (BRAVE COMBO, Hernandez/Barnes) I don’t …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: Brave Combo, Christmas, Glacier, Glacier Park Lodge, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Lake McDonald, Lake McDonald Lodge, Logan Pass, Montana, Rising Sun Lodge, The Prince of Wales Hotel, tradition, Waterton Lakes, Yellowstone

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Going out is really going in.

Category Archives: National Parks

Golden Gate Nat’l Rec Area – Full Moons, Football, Fog and Point Bonita Lighthouse

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Rhapsody

Zion National Park, UT – Angels Landing

Lava Beds NM: D-I-Y Spelunking

Getting to Great Basin NP

Half Dome Is Waiting

Summer Surprise: Christmas in July!

“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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