Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I was fortunate enough to spend a week in Glacier for the first time, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. The sheer amount of beauty I witnessed was overwhelming. Learning about fish and plants that inhabit the park only helped to solidify my understanding of…
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Greetings from North Cascades National Park
I don't usually write these type of things, but this is one of my two compulsions. The other is the PCTA. I never donated to a charity or organization. Then I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife in 2014. We were actually wed upon completion of the thru…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
Over my summer vacation, I attended Glacier National Park's Invasive Species Student Symposium. I met many new friends who I continue to cherish today and explored the beauty of nature. I hiked long trails, fished in the clean rivers, and learned about how invasive species affect our society. It was…
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Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park
Amazed with the maze of multicolored sandstone spires that spread before us, we take the Navajo Loop Trail ever downward on orange sand into a narrow slit of bright orange canyon walls looking so weathered, and out we go to the other side of the slit to see among the…
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Greetings from Natural Bridges National Monument
My son and I set up camp on a high plateau overlooking the distant sandstone spires of Monument Valley. We look forward to our all-day hike through Natural Bridges, where three sandstone formations rise high across a very narrow canyon of dark pine-laced cliffs bearing small ancestral Pueblo ruins tucked…
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Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park
At age 19, freshmen in college, my twin and I had few extra dollars to spare on our thirst for travel and nature. That's how we ended up at Mount Rainier working at Paradise Inn for the summer of 2010. We blindly accepted a job that seemed too perfect, and…
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Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park
Six months after our wedding, I was drafted into the Army. Shortly thereafter, in June 1967, I was sent to Vietnam. When I returned home one year later, my wife and I decided we needed to get away by ourselves to get "reacquainted." We went to Rocky Mountain National…
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Greetings from Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
Beginning in the early 1970s, I became involved in efforts to set aside a part of the Brooks Range in Alaska as a new national park. I spent years exploring this wonderful wilderness by foot, dog team, floating and by light aircraft. I wanted to be a part of the…
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Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park
Deep within the spruce and fir, I make my camp along the North Rim, but before I eat supper, I walk over to the nighttime edge of the Grand Canyon to peer three or four thousand feet down to see a tiny flickering campfire way below that lures me down…
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Greetings from Yellowstone National Park
To celebrate the 100 years, I just got done spending 21 days in Yellowstone on a biking/hiking adventure. Would your magazine be interested in a 3,125 word feature story?
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