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September 29, 2020 by Deborah W. Trotter
… and I haven’t been able to go. As a result I have a pretty strong case of mountain scenery …
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Category: National Parks, Other Beautiful Places
| Tags: Alaska, bald eagle, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, ducks, Glacier National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Half Dome, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, lupine, Mt. Whitney, New Mexico, Red Bluff, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Yosemite National Park
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March 31, 2020 by Deborah W. Trotter
With National Parks closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the virtual visit is now as real as we can get. Fortunately, …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Ahwahnee Hotel, COVID-19 pandemic, Dogwood, Happy Isles, Illilouette Fall, lupine, May 2016, Mist Trail, photo library, trail, Vernal Fall, waterfalls, Yosemite National Park
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September 30, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
“You can’t go home again” is a phrase that I have always understood to mean that home is not really …
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Category: National Parks, Western U.S. National Parks
| Tags: butterflies, deer, difficult trail, geothermal area, hike, Home, Kohm Yah-mah-nee, Lassen National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, lupine, Ridge Lakes, southwest entrance, steep and rocky, Sulphur Works, time warp, trail, Visitor Center
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May 31, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
I started the month of May with a visit to Lassen, walking on the road that is still closed to …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Bridal Veil Fall, Clouds Rest, Devastated Area, Diamond Peak, Glacier Point, Half Dome, Kohm Yah-mah-nee, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, lupine, Manzanita Lake, Merced River, mud pots, Nevada Fall, Sulphur Works, Vernal Fall, Yosemite, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite Valley
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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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August 12, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
I have a hiking goal for the year, and I’m working on it, but mostly what I did at Hurricane …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: 100 mile per hour winds, British Columbia, Cirque Rim Trail, frigid weather, hiking goal, Hurricane Ridge, lupine, Olympic Mountains, Olympic National Park, Pacific Ocean, poma lift, Port Angeles, ski area, ski patrol chalet, Strait of Juan de Fuca, stunning panorama, trails, Victoria, Washington, wildflowers, winter
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August 9, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Category: National Parks
| Tags: Fireweed, glaciers, heather, Indian Paintbrush, lupine, Mount Rainier National Park, splendor, summer, Washington, wildflowers
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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
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