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September 30, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
“You can’t go home again” is a phrase that I have always understood to mean that home is not really …
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Category: National Parks, Western U.S. National Parks
| Tags: butterflies, deer, difficult trail, geothermal area, hike, Home, Kohm Yah-mah-nee, Lassen National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, lupine, Ridge Lakes, southwest entrance, steep and rocky, Sulphur Works, time warp, trail, Visitor Center
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July 27, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
Summer in Alaska, when the sun stays up long enough that even after a day spent cruising the entire length …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Alaska, artist conk, Bartlett Cove, Blackwater Pond, campground, Forest Trail, fungus, ganoderma applanatum, Glacier Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, hike, hiking trails, humpback whale, June, loving memorial, moose, mosquitoes, Park Headquarters, phase of the moon, Point Gustavus, ponds, public airport, spruce and hemlock, summer, tides, Visitor Center
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June 30, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
Earlier this month we took a spectacular, eight-day cruise in Alaska’s Inside Passage aboard a small (40 passengers) catamaran called …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Alaska's Inside Passage, Alaskan Dream, bald eagle, Bartlett Cove, British Columbia, calf, calved, Canada, catamaran, cow moose, cubs, Glacier Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gloomy Knob, Grand Pacific Glacier, grizzly bear, gulls, Johns Hopkins Inlet, Lamplugh Glacier, Margerie Glacier, mountain goat, Park Headquarters, purest air on the planet, South Marble Island, Stellar sea lions, Tarr Inlet, tidewater glacier, Topeka Glacier, tufted puffins, Visitor Center, water and wilderness
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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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October 7, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Back in August before our own government shut down our National Parks, we were lucky to spend three nights and …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: "invisibility cloak, 320 feet high, chill drizzle, Christine Falls, Comet Falls, good workout, hike, impenetrable fog, Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, nature, outdoors, Paradise, Park Rangers, popular trailhead, shutdown, side canyon, single log bridge, tall blue bonnet, thunderous flows, trail, Van Trump Creek, Visitor Center, waterfalls, white roiling water, whitewater, Wiggins lily, wildflowers, wooden bridge
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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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July 1, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
The first fork in the road through Arches from the Visitor Center, just beyond Balanced Rock, takes you to the …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: "Primitive Trail", Arches National Park, Balanced Rock, climbers, colors, cooler, Double Arch, drink plenty of water, evening, family, hike, kids, less crowded, morning, North and South Windows, parking loop, photography, scramble, short and easy, summer, sun, the eyes of Arches, trail, trails, Turret Arch, Visitor Center, Windows Section
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June 10, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
My car was one of the first to go into Lassen Park at the Sulphur Works on Highway 89, just …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: emerald lake, familiar landmark, forest, Hat Creek, heart and soul, higher elevations, highway's summit, hiking, hydrothermal activity, Kings Creek Meadow, Kohm Yah-mah-nee, Lassen Park, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Memorial Day weekend, muscle memory, nature, old friend, outdoors, Paradise Meadow, photos, pine needles, plowed drifts, snow, sounds of mountain water, Sulphur Works, summit lake, trail, trailheads, unseasonably warm, Visitor Center
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June 3, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
We have all heard it said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. But does …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: alpine Paradise, bug repellent, bugs, dams, Diablo Lake, disappointed, first impressions, forest, fresh meat, glacial blue, hiking, motor court, National Park, nature, Newhalem, North Cascades National Park, outdoors, power poles, Pyramid Lake, Pyramid Peak, Rainy Lake, resident felines, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, second chance to make a first impression, Skagit River, thick evergreens, trail, Visitor Center
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May 27, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
There’s nothing like discovering treasure under your nose, right? That’s what I did last weekend when I had a few …
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Category: National Parks, National Recreation Areas
| Tags: 2013 goal, 32nd Avenue, cliffs, Coastal Trail, El Camino del Mar, electric streetcar line, eucalyptus grove, fog, Fort Point, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, hike, Lands End, landslides, lighthouses, Marin Headlands, National Park, on street parking, One Mile Rock, Point Bonita, Point Reyes National Seashore, poppies, remote and desolate, sailboats, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, series of stair steps, shipping traffic, spectacular views, stiff ocean wind, Sutro Baths, three-mile roundtrip, treasure, trolley, Visitor Center, wildflowers, yellow lupine
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