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February 28, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is a disappointment when a long-planned national park visit coincides with closure of a favorite trail or limitation of …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: "Alerts" tab, Alcove House, Ancestral Pueblo people, Bandelier, Bandelier National Monument, Cave Kiva, cave rooms, cliff dwellings, deer, fear of heights, Frijoles Canyon, Frijoles Creek, kiva, ladders, Long House, loop trail, National Park Service, New Mexico, peaceful walk, petroglyphs, roof beams, ruins, stone dwellings, trail, Tyuonyi, Visitor Center, volcanic tuff
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January 30, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is not unusual to find historic buildings protected within national parks. But the 14-story remains of the early 20th …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: 14-story remains, Alaska, beaver, braided Chitina River, Chitina, dilapidated structure, footbridge, glaciers, historic buildings, inaccessible, Kennecott copper mill, Kennicott River, McCarthy Road, memorable tour, mountain peaks, National Park Service, National Parks, natural majesty, railroad, railroad spikes, remote, road hazard, Root Glacier, steep climb, trails, wild, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Yellowstone
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February 17, 2015 by Deborah W. Trotter
We didn’t really know what to expect on a winter visit to the Santa Fe area, but last week with …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Alcove House, Bandelier National Monument, cliff dwellings, deer, El Rito de los Frijoles, elevation, Frijoles Canyon, hiking, Little River of Beans, National Park Service, New Mexico, outdoors, Ponderosa pine forest, refried beans, Rio Grande, rock formations, Santa Fe, snow, tall wooden ladders, trail, Tyuonyi, Upper Frijoles Falls, winter
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May 19, 2014 by Deborah W. Trotter
To start the month of May this year, I made it for the second time to the top of Angels …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Angels Landing, chains, climb, fear of heights, Half Dome, narrow spine, National Park Service, outdoors, permit, photographs, scrambling, sheer dropoffs, trail, Virgin River, Yosemite National Park, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park
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April 8, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
With water on three sides, the views alone make a visit to Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California, worth …
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Category: National Monuments
| Tags: 12000-mile roundtrip migration, Arctic, Baja California, beaches, birds and wildlife, Cabrillo National Monument, California, continental United States, France, Fresnel lens, gray whales, James P. Keating, January and February, Juan Cabrillo, lighthouse lovers, lighthouses, mariners, most southwesterly land, National Park Service, nature, navigational aid, Old Point Loma Lighthouse, outdoors, Pacific Ocean, plants, Point Loma, Robert Israel, sailors, San Diego, San Diego Bay, thick fog, waves, West Coast lighthouse keeper
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February 11, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
It was sometime in the 1960’s, early morning of a spring day in Arizona. Really cold outside, gray, threatening sky. …
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Category: National Monuments
| Tags: 1960's, 1995, A SUMMER'S TRADE, anazasi, Antelope House ruins, Arizona, barefoot ford, Canyon de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto, Chinle wash, cliff dwelling, family, farming, four young children, handmade jewelry, hiking, icy, Irving Toddy, July, livestock, Lodge House ruins, National Park memories, National Park Service, native art, Navajo Nation, Navajos, open-air buses, outdoors, overlooks, permit and guide, photos, priceless experiences, public trail, radiated heat, redrock canyon walls, ruins, Salina Bookshelf, seared southwestern blue, shade, spring morning, switchbacks, threatening sky, three-year-old, trail, trailhead, tunnel, vacation, White House ruin
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