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April 21, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is fitting that this year National Park Week (April 21 – April 29) kicks off on the 180th anniversary …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Bumpass Hell Trail, CA, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, Dogwood blooms, Fireweed, Glacier National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, Ground squirrel, High Peaks Trail, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Little Baldy, Mist Trail, MT, OR, Pinnacles National Park, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Vernal Fall, WY, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley
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September 28, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter
Hiking to Bumpass Hell this past weekend felt like a homecoming. I had hiked there many times in my youth, …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: boardwalks, boiling mudpots, Brokeoff Mountain, Bumpass Hell, Bumpass Mountain, children, fumaroles, hiking, homecoming, hydrothermal area, Kendall Bumpass, Lake Helen, Lassen Park, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, moderately strenuous, Mt. Diller, National Parks, National Public Lands Day, Pilot Pinnacle, rotten eggs, September snowfall, steaming pools, sulphuric odor, sweatshirt weather, trail head
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July 22, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter
If you were thinking about climbing Lassen Peak this weekend, go directly to Plan B. Because of the record amounts …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: birds' eye views, Coast Range, elevation, hike, Kings Creek Meadow, Lake Helen, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, Mt. Shasta, nature, outdoors, photos, Sacramento Valley, September, trail
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March 15, 2015 by Deborah W. Trotter
While in the northern Sacramento Valley a week ago, I drove up Highway 36 to Lassen Park, unable to resist …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Brokeoff Mountain, Diamond Peak, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, out of whack, winter
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September 2, 2014 by Deborah W. Trotter
The Park is getting ready for winter. You can smell it in the air, you can hear it in the …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Brokeoff Mountain, California, campgrounds, Kings Creek Meadow, Lake Helen, lake levels, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, meadows, quiet, rabbitbrush, shoulder season, snowmelt, spirit, summer visitors, whisper
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December 23, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
In my final post of 2012 I laid out my goal for this year of hiking at least 60 miles …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks, National Recreation Areas, National Seashores
| Tags: 60 miles, Coast Trail, Coastal Trail, extreme pleasure, goal, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, High Peaks Loop Trail, hike, Kings Canyon National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, National Parks year, nature, Olympic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, outdoors, Pinnacles National Park, Pt. Reyes National Seashore, Sequoia National Park, trails, Upper Yosemite Fall, Yosemite National Park
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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
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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
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June 10, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
My car was one of the first to go into Lassen Park at the Sulphur Works on Highway 89, just …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: emerald lake, familiar landmark, forest, Hat Creek, heart and soul, higher elevations, highway's summit, hiking, hydrothermal activity, Kings Creek Meadow, Kohm Yah-mah-nee, Lassen Park, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Memorial Day weekend, muscle memory, nature, old friend, outdoors, Paradise Meadow, photos, pine needles, plowed drifts, snow, sounds of mountain water, Sulphur Works, summit lake, trail, trailheads, unseasonably warm, Visitor Center
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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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