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August 27, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter
My previous post took us back to the Garden Wall one morning last summer to experience the wildflowers along the …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Bearhat Mountain, earth laughs in flowers, Garden Wall, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Hidden Lake, Highline Trail, Logan Pass, Logan Pass Visitor Center, meadows, Montana, mountain goats, rain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, trail, wildflowers
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August 7, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter
Last summer my husband and I had the time and the good fortune to visit both Grand Teton National Park …
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| Tags: bighorn sheep, blooming, Clements Mountain, Garden Wall, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Grand Teton National Park, Granite Park Chalet, Highline Trail, hike, Logan Pass, marmot, meadows, Montana, mountain goat, nature, outdoors, popular, Rock Garden, stunning scenery, trail, wildflowers, wildlife, Wyoming, zoom lens
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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 9, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Last week we went to Yosemite for three days to partake of fine wines and food at one of the …
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| Tags: Ahwahnee Hotel, fine wines, freezing, frosty conditions, granite valley walls, meadows, snowstorm, trees, Vintners Holidays, white fluff, winter postcard, Yosemite
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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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November 27, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
Olympic National Park, in the far northwest corner of the continental United States, in a part of Washington State that …
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| Tags: alpine forests, backpackers, beach, cave, children, driftwood, glaciers, Highway 101, hikes, Hoh Rain Forest, Hoh River, inches of rain, Kalaloch Beach, lakes, meadows, natural playground, nature, New Zealand, Olympic Mountains, Olympic National Park, outdoors, Pacific Ocean, Ruby Beach, sand, sea stacks, Seattle, Sitka spruce, southern Chile, temperate rain forest, Washington, western hemlock, wild coastline, Wilderness
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November 13, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
Last week I made an unexpected trip to northern California. When it was time to return home to the San …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: autumn, Brokeoff, California, creeks, Diamond Peak, geothermal, hiking, Lassen, Lassen Volcanic National Park, meadows, Mount Diller, Mount Lassen, mountain mule ears, mud pot, nature, November, outdoors, rabbitbrush, Ridge Lakes, rotten eggs, silent invitation, snow, Sulphur Works, summer, trailhead, Visitor Center, waterfalls, wildflowers, winter
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October 16, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
What’s the biggest challenge in long range planning of a visit to a distant National Park? Of course there are …
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| Tags: cascades, children, glaciers, hiking, marmots, meadows, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, Myrtle Falls, Panorama Point, Paradise, Phlox, Skyline Loop, snow, snowmelt, streams, summit, technical climbs, trail, Washington, waterfalls, Western anemone, wildflowers
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