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November 30, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
If you ever find yourself in Sitka, Alaska – unlikely, given its remoteness, unless it is your destination – you …
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Category: National Historic Sites, National Parks
| Tags: Alaska, bald eagles, bears, cultures, eagles, frogs, Haida, hemlock and spruce, Indian River, Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri, Oregon, Portland, ravens, San Francisco, seagulls, seaside, Sitka, Sitka National Historic Park, Southeast Alaska, St. Louis, symbols, Tlingit, totem poles, trails
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July 29, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
Whenever we travel by car to Central Oregon, no matter what the purpose of our trip, we are drawn to …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: accessible, California, Central Oregon, Crater Lake, Crater Lake Lodge, Crater Lake National Park, deepest lake, irresistible, Mount Scott, Mount Shasta, Oregon, rim walk, Sapphire blue, unforgettable, Wizard Island
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June 29, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
In all of my many visits to Oregon as a child and as an adult, I had never visited John …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: gravel road, Highway 26, intense colors, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Mitchell, Oregon, Painted Hills, plentiful wildflowers, Redmond, short trails, Sisters, viewpoints
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August 3, 2015 by Deborah W. Trotter
Most National Parks are about more than one feature, and it takes some time and effort to get a real …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: clear mountain air, Crater Lake, Crater Lake Lodge, incomparably blue water, National Park, Oregon, Pacific Crest Trail
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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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September 2, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Tucked into the southwest corner of the state of Oregon, not on the way to or from anywhere, at the …
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Category: National Monuments
| Tags: 23 guest rooms, 90 minutes, ascent, bending and twisting, brook babbling, cave, cave entrance, Cave Junction, descent, double-sided fireplace, elevation, Elijah Davidson, engaged and entertained, expansive lobby, features, frigid body parts, geology, hike, history, inhabitants, living and fossilized, low ceilings, main exit, metal ladders, moderately strenuous, narrow paths, National Historic Landmark, Oregon, Oregon Caves Chateau, Oregon Caves National Monument, ponderosa pine pillars, Ranger Cedar, refrigerator, spelunkers, spelunking, stories, temperature, three quarters of a mile, tour, trail, Visitor Center, wet stone steps
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December 18, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
Like it or not, this is the season for transforming evergreen trees. In December, all over the world, indoors and …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: "condensed sunbeams", Baja, bark, California, Christmas trees, cones, conifers, conservationist, crowns, elevations, evergreen trees, glorious forest specimens, Highway 36, hiking, John Muir, kingly beauty, Lassen National Park, lights and ornaments, majesty, Mineral, mountain forests, National Parks, natural habitats, naturalist, nature, nature's majesty, needles, Oregon, ornaments, outdoors, Pacific Coast, photos, sugar pine, sugar pine cones, The Mountains of California, woods
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