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Lassen Swimming Hole in Butte Lake!
Have you ever wanted to swim in a lava flow? Not in the lava, I mean, but in water among…
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Photos of the Wilderness
I have a set of pictures that rotate across the desktop of my computer screen. At the moment, they’re mostly…
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A Misty Morning Stroll on Arcadia Beach
Arcadia Beach, along US-101 south of Cannon Beach, isn’t worth a long stop. There just isn’t that much there. But…
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Lakes & Peaks: Duck Pass
If you can do one trail near Mammoth Lakes, CA, Duck Pass certainly should rank high on your list of…
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The Time We Raised a Cell Phone from the Dead
Early morning in Wyoming. Who even knew Wyoming had scenery like this? It’s a tempting thing to think that you…
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Epic Day Hiking Road Trip to Yellowstone & Grand Tetons!
Yellowstone and Grand Tetons are a concentration of epic views and fascinating phenomena. In Yellowstone, water boils out of the…
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Keeping Our Eyes on the End
“A lot of people flunk out in the wilderness, because they don’t keep their eyes on the end… The test…
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Walking the Zion Narrows
I first did the Zion Narrows in 1997. Or, should I say, I first set foot in the Virgin River…
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Awe in the Wilderness Heals
In the article I mentioned last week concerning research done by the Sierra Club, REI, and the University of Berkeley,…
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Evening at Badwater Basin
We were crazy to go to Badwater Basin in the middle of June the week after record-breaking high temperatures in…
