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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
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August 26, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
When we visited Olympic National Park a few weeks ago, our home base for the three days was the lovely, …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: 90-foot cascade, active community, alder, ancient forest, barbed spines, Barnes Creek, cottonwood, deep forest, Devils Club, evergreen canopy, evergreens, fallen trees, Falls Creek, ferns, fir, forest floor, gorgeous natural lake, gurgling, hemlock, hidden attractions, Highway 101, hike, Lake Crescent, Lake Crescent Lodge, madrone, maples, Marymere Falls, mostly shaded, nature, Olympic National Park, outdoors, overlook, red cedar, refreshing dip, shrubs, spruce, trail, trailhead, waterfall, wildflowers, willow, wooden bridge, wooden steps, yew
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July 22, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
With the hike to this active fire lookout in one of our National Parks, I have completed 29.6 miles of …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: 360 degree views, fire lookout, future blog, hike, nature, outdoors, Sixty in 2013
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July 1, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
The first fork in the road through Arches from the Visitor Center, just beyond Balanced Rock, takes you to the …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: "Primitive Trail", Arches National Park, Balanced Rock, climbers, colors, cooler, Double Arch, drink plenty of water, evening, family, hike, kids, less crowded, morning, North and South Windows, parking loop, photography, scramble, short and easy, summer, sun, the eyes of Arches, trail, trails, Turret Arch, Visitor Center, Windows Section
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May 27, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
There’s nothing like discovering treasure under your nose, right? That’s what I did last weekend when I had a few …
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Category: National Parks, National Recreation Areas
| Tags: 2013 goal, 32nd Avenue, cliffs, Coastal Trail, El Camino del Mar, electric streetcar line, eucalyptus grove, fog, Fort Point, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, hike, Lands End, landslides, lighthouses, Marin Headlands, National Park, on street parking, One Mile Rock, Point Bonita, Point Reyes National Seashore, poppies, remote and desolate, sailboats, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, series of stair steps, shipping traffic, spectacular views, stiff ocean wind, Sutro Baths, three-mile roundtrip, treasure, trolley, Visitor Center, wildflowers, yellow lupine
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May 13, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Lassen Peak still dozes under its winter white sheet, but springtime is waking up the rest of the Park. There …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: California, hike, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, Memorial Day weekend, National Parks, nature, open for the season, outdoors, Park, snow, spring, trail, winter
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May 6, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
You return to a lake you’ve hiked to before, and you’re sure there’s something different about it. Very different. But …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Avalanche Creek, Avalanche Lake, bear scat, cascades, cedar forest, gift, glacial cirque, Glacier National Park, hike, lake, Lake McDonald, magic, memories, Montana, National Parks, nature, outdoors, philosophical/existential, special places, thundering, trailhead, water, whitewater festival, wooden boardwalk, woodsy
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April 15, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
St. Mary Lake (home of tiny Wild Goose Island) stretches for miles along Going-to-the-Sun Road from the east entrance to …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: easy, footbridge, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, hike, inhaling, kid-friendly, Montana, mountain air, mountain water, nature, outdoors, St. Mary Falls, St. Mary Lake, St. Mary River, trail, Virginia Falls, Wild Goose Island
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March 25, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
According to the calendar, spring arrives in California in March. But what that means in the real world depends on …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: 1998, Brokeoff Mountain, Bumpass Hell, California, closed to traffic, entrance station, foot traffic, frozen, higher elevations, Highway 89, hike, July, Lake Helen, Lassen Park, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, light snow year, Manzanita Lake, March, May, mischief, mountains, nature, northwest entrance, opportunities, outdoors, Park Service, photographs, real world, Reflection Lake, road closed, road cut, road opening, snow, snowballs, snowplows, southwest entrance, spring snow storms, springtime, storms, summer, through Lassen Park, trailhead, unexpected treat, unpredictable, updates, vehicles, video, winter
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March 18, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
You probably don’t think of solid rock when you hear the word “delicate.” Neither do I. But when you see …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Arches National Park, auto license plates, cairns, climbing, cloudless sky, crowded, delicate, Delicate Arch, family photos, four teenagers, free standing, full moon, hike, natural arch, nature, open year round, outdoors, photograph, precarious, slickrock, trail, Utah, Zion National Park
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