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Lightning in the air...

Photo by: Mike Wheeler I am spellbound by this place. When I first moved to California back in '97, the first thing I wanted to see was Yosemite. I . . .
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Hiking Zion

Photo by: Kevin Smedley Zion National Park is a place we have visited many times and in many seasons. One memorable trip in 2000 was just my wife and . . .
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When Things Go Wrong

Photo by: James Close The unabridged annals of “When Things Go Wrong” would, as any seasoned hiker knows, easily fill a wing of the Library of Congress if all . . .
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A Cadillac Mountain Sunrise

Photo by: Alexander  Reis I was In Acadia National park with my friends on a camping trip with my summer sleep away camp. And we saw the lumberjack show . . .
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Zion - Angel's Landing and the Narrows

Photo by: Kevin Smedley Zion National Park is a place we have visited many times and in many seasons. One memorable trip in 2000 was just my wife and . . .
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Mt. Rainier

Photo by: Brad  Hungerford Mt. Rainier Mt. Rainier is an imposing and beautiful gem at the western edge of the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington, adjacent to . . .
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Acadia National Park

Photo by: Mary O'Brien Every Memorial Day weekend for the last 25 years I have gone to Acadia National Park with a special group of friends. We have so . . .
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Regeneration

Photo by: Matt Anderson While I love my job (middle-school educator) it is very draining and after several months of work I was in desperate need to recharge, as . . .
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Building receptivity into the human mind

Photo by: Dan Styer I could tell many stories about National Parks, from 1960 to yesterday, from Acadia to Sequoia, stories involving my parents, or my self, or my . . .
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