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Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – On the Road Again
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May 24, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter

The day after tomorrow, Saturday, May 26, is the official day to walk or ride your bike on a 19-mile …
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Category: National Parks, Western U.S. National Parks | Tags: awakening, boots, Devastated Area, embrace, entrance station, evergreens, Hat Creek, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Manzanita Lake, mountain water, nature, photographs, snow melt, trail, Wilderness, winter slumber
Glacier National Park, MT – The Garden Wall Revisited
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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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Category: National Parks | 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
Grand Teton National Park, WY – Lunch Tree Hill
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July 30, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter

If you have ever been to the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, you know about the jaw-dropping …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: beauty, Grand Teton National Park, grandeur, Jackson Hole Valley, Jackson Lake, Jackson Lake Lodge, jaw-dropping view, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lunch Tree HIll, moose, Mt. Moran, nature, Skillet Glacier, sunrise, sunset, Teton Range, trail, Willow Flats
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – A Peak Experience
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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
Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA -The Bloom Was Super Enough!
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July 17, 2016 by Deborah W. Trotter

All the talk this spring was of the “super bloom” in Death Valley National Park. After several years of drought …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks | Tags: California, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Death Valley National Park, drought, late March, Los Angeles, nature, outdoors, San Luis Obispo County, super bloom, wildflowers
Pinnacles National Park, CA – C is for Condors
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March 29, 2016 by Deborah W. Trotter

Earlier this month we made our second visit to Pinnacles National Park. California was being drenched by much-needed rainstorms, but …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: California, clouds, Condor Gulch, condors, creeks, High Peaks, hike, Indian Paintbrush, nature, outdoors, Pinnacles National Park, rainstorms, trail, waterfall, wildflowers
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, NM – It’s About Time
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February 24, 2016 by Deborah W. Trotter

Although I have spent quite a bit of time in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, until earlier this month …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks | Tags: 360 degree views, body contortions, Canyon Trail, Cave Loop Trail, climbing, English majors, geologist's paradise, hike, Kasha-Katuwe, natural landscape, nature, outdoors, Pueblo de Cochiti, scrambling, strenuous, Tent Rocks, trail
Sequoia National Park, CA – Little Baldy, Take Two
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November 18, 2015 by Deborah W. Trotter

Two years ago we first climbed to the top of Little Baldy, a granite dome over 8,000 feet high with …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: dome, hiking, infinite horizons, Kings Canyon National Park, nature, outdoors, Sequoia National Park, snow, top of the world, young evergreens
Zion National Park, UT – The Emerald Pools
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June 10, 2014 by Deborah W. Trotter

Hiking to one, or two, or all three of the Emerald Pools is a very popular way to get off …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: Emerald Pools, frogs, hike, hiking, nature, outdoors, prickly pear cactus, shuttle buses, trail, Zion Lodge, Zion National Park
Yosemite National Park, CA – Going Out Is Really Going In
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January 9, 2014 by Deborah W. Trotter

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 2014, autumn leaves, energy, good tidings, Happy New Year, John Muir, mountains, nature, peace, storms, sunshine, Tenaya Lake, trees, Yosemite National Park

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Going out is really going in.

Tag Archives: nature

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – On the Road Again

Glacier National Park, MT – The Garden Wall Revisited

Grand Teton National Park, WY – Lunch Tree Hill

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – A Peak Experience

Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA -The Bloom Was Super Enough!

Pinnacles National Park, CA – C is for Condors

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, NM – It’s About Time

Sequoia National Park, CA – Little Baldy, Take Two

Zion National Park, UT – The Emerald Pools

Yosemite National Park, CA – Going Out Is Really Going In

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