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Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Autumn Reflections
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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
Yosemite National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: To the Top of Yosemite Fall
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June 24, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

It’s almost as if the National Park Service is in on it. As if they know I’m turning 60 this …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: back country, boots, challenging wilderness trail, closely packed rocks, Columbia Rock, destination, Glacier Point, handrail, hiker, hiking, juicy apple, light spray, manzanita scrub, Merced River, National Park trail, overlook, physically demanding hike, prudence, rainbow, relentlessly, rock stair steps, rock staircase, shadows, slippery, snowmelt, steep, strenuous, switchbacks, trail, treacherous, unforeseen benefit, Upper Yosemite Fall, Valley, Yosemite National Park, zigzags
Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Paradise
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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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Category: National Parks | 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

Going out is really going in.

Tag Archives: snowmelt

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA – Autumn Reflections

Yosemite National Park, CA – Sixty in 2013: To the Top of Yosemite Fall

Mount Rainier National Park, WA – Paradise

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out ’til sundown, for going out, I found I was really going in.” John Muir

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