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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
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
Mesa Verde National Park, CO – In the Neighborhood
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June 18, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

As neighborhoods go, Mesa Verde is unique. Rising up from the surrounding plateau to elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: 32-foot ladder, ancestors, ancient culture, ancient ones, archaeologists, Balcony House, cliff dwellings, Cliff Palace, climb, cowboys, crawl, green table, hiking, Long House, Mesa Verde, Mesa Verde National Park, narrow tunnel, neighborhood, old neighborhood, open year round, Park Ranger, Pueblo Indians, rich history, ruins, Spruce Tree House, Square Tower House, stair steps, stone dwellings, strenuous, summer, tickets, tours
Sixty in 2013: Pinnacles National Park, CA – High Peaks Loop
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March 11, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter

What’s in a name? Pinnacles National Monument or Pinnacles National Park? Although it became a National Park in 2013, California’s …
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Category: National Parks | Tags: "Condor Crew", a rose by any other name, abnormally low rainfall, ancient volcano, audacious rock formations, Bear Gulch Day Use Area, bee hive, bees, buck brush, Bush poppy, California, California condors, California poppy, caves, Condor Gulch Trail, craggy outcroppings, diverse habitat, earthquake fault, footholds, geologic wonderland, gulches, handholds, High Peaks, HIgh Peaks Loop, hike, hundreds of species, Indian Paintbrush, Indian warrior, lupine, milk maids, nature, Neenach Formation, outdoors, peaks, Pinnacles, Pinnacles National Monument, Pinnacles National Park, quirky rock sculptures, radio antenna, raptors, rock formations, San Andreas fault, Shakespeare, Sixty in 2013, spring, steep and narrow, strenuous, swarming, switchbacks, tectonic plate, trail, transmitter, turkey vultures, well-maintained trail, wildflowers

Going out is really going in.

Tag Archives: strenuous

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

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

Mesa Verde National Park, CO – In the Neighborhood

Sixty in 2013: Pinnacles National Park, CA – High Peaks Loop

“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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