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priceless memories.
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Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park
My husband and I recently visited Mount Rainier National Park for the first time. We made a two-day backpacking trip to the South Puyallup River campground and hiked up to Emerald Ridge to see our first glacier! This hike was very uphill, but it was worth it when we reached…
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Greetings from Zion National Park
This picture is of the rising sun bouncing off the walls of The Narrows, our favorite moment of visiting Zion in summer 2012. We beat the crowds and walked for 2 miles up the Virgin River solo, just us and the walls. It's moments and places that our National Parks…
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Greetings from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
After a recent move to northern Michigan from Chicago, my wife and I made a promise that on our first night we would go to our favorite sunset spot in the world, Pierce Stocking Drive in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It was early spring, and still quite cold, but…
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Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park
The most surprising element of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was the warm glow that filled the canyon, even in its darkest moments. When my best friend and I arrived at the North Rim it was after 8pm and very dark, yet through the trees I could still…
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Greetings from Canyonlands National Park
We timed our arrival for dawn so we could catch that iconic photograph of Mesa Arch that has been seen forty bajillion times on the Internet and on coffee tables across America. We weren’t the only ones with the same idea as there were already about a half dozen photographers…
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Greetings from Olympic National Park
I'd bend over backwards to visit Olympic again! Sam and I first visited this park in October 2012, our first real vacation together. We loved the many eco-systems represented at Olympic (shout-out to Hoh Rainforest!). Animal highlights included a herd of elk and a mama bear with two cubs! Thank…
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Greetings from Badlands National Park
The first National Park I ever visited was the Badlands. I was on a road trip, and we were making for the Blackhills at the end of the day. But then, we made a rest stop, and we saw the ripples in the land scape -- we had to go.…
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Greetings from El Malpais National Monument
The discovery of El Malpais National Monument was the perfect change of pace from a day of driving down the interstate watching the landscape whiz by. El Maplais is a combination of sandstone bluffs, dating back to the age of dinosaurs, and lava fields located in a valley outside of…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In the Fall of 2012 my friends and I visited Yellowstone National Park before heading on to the Grand Tetons. Yellowstone was beautiful with its geysers, hot springs, and buffalo but nothing prepared us for this one late afternoon in the Tetons. Smoke, from fires blowing across the state from…
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Greetings from Kings Canyon National Park
For many years, the Evolution Valley on the John Muir Trail has been on my bucket list. This summer I was finally able to put it together... a 57 mile loop trip from North Lake to South Lake via Evolution Valley. In order to do this in the five days…
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