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Bandelier National Monument, NM – No Time Machine Required
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April 29, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

As a kid in 1968, again with our own kids in 2000, and again with just my husband last fall, …
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Category: National Monuments | Tags: Alcove House, ancestors, ancestral homelands, Ancestral Pueblo people, archaeological sites, Bandelier, Bandelier National Monument, caves, Ceremonial Cave, ceremonial Kiva, children, cliff dwellings, Cochiti, ecosystems, fear of heights, flash flooding, Frijoles Canyon, Frijoles Creek, hiking, ladders, Long House, loop trail, mid-1200's, mid-1500's, Nature Trail, New Mexico, outdoors, Pueblos, roof beams, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Santa Domingo, shuttles, spirits, talus cliffs, trail, trailside information displays, Tyuonyi, viga holes, Visitor Center, White Rock, wildfires, Zuni
Sixty in 2013: Pinnacles National Park, CA – High Peaks Loop
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March 11, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

What’s in a name? Pinnacles National Monument or Pinnacles National Park? Although it became a National Park in 2013, California’s …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: "Condor Crew", a rose by any other name, abnormally low rainfall, ancient volcano, audacious rock formations, Bear Gulch Day Use Area, bee hive, bees, buck brush, Bush poppy, California, California condors, California poppy, caves, Condor Gulch Trail, craggy outcroppings, diverse habitat, earthquake fault, footholds, geologic wonderland, gulches, handholds, High Peaks, HIgh Peaks Loop, hike, hundreds of species, Indian Paintbrush, Indian warrior, lupine, milk maids, nature, Neenach Formation, outdoors, peaks, Pinnacles, Pinnacles National Monument, Pinnacles National Park, quirky rock sculptures, radio antenna, raptors, rock formations, San Andreas fault, Shakespeare, Sixty in 2013, spring, steep and narrow, strenuous, swarming, switchbacks, tectonic plate, trail, transmitter, turkey vultures, well-maintained trail, wildflowers
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, NM – Location, Location, Location
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October 8, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter

Have you ever thought about building your own house? What features would you want it to have? How about a …
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Category: National Monuments | Tags: ancient people, canyon, caves, Gila Cliff Dwellings, Gila River, hike, history, Mogollon, National Park System, New Mexico, pictograph, Silver City, southwestern, trail
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

Going out is really going in.

Tag Archives: caves

Bandelier National Monument, NM – No Time Machine Required

Sixty in 2013: Pinnacles National Park, CA – High Peaks Loop

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, NM – Location, Location, Location

Lava Beds NM: D-I-Y Spelunking

“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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