Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument probably isn’t on your list unless you’re a hardcore fossil nut. I had seen the name in our…
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Panorama Point Nebraska
Panorama Point – the Nebraska High Point checked off the list. 15 down, 36 to go if you count DC. 5,424 feet seems…
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Pawnee National Grassland
Pawnee National Grassland was a bit of a surprise for us. "Let’s camp here" – said nobody looking at flat horizons full of…
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Lovers Leap via Wagon Wheel Trail
Let’s go do an exposed hike when the forecast is over 100 degrees – said nobody ever… Except Colette. In my best caveman-must-please-little-woman…
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Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak – the South Dakota high point at 7.244 feet, one more high point checked off the list. We’ve done a…
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Custer State Park
Custer State Park was the central point for our Wyoming/South Dakota trip, since my personal big rock was climbing Black Elk Peak which…
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Wild Bill Bar
I had visuals of Deadwood, South Dakota being full of historic Wild Wild West, but the Wild Bill Bar was the only thing…
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Spearfish South Dakota
Spearfish South Dakota was nowhere on our radar. And despite being an amazing chunk of canyon with towering sandstone walls, pines, and small…
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Belle Fourche South Dakota
Belle Fourche is the geographic center of the entire United States. We thought we were done with geographic centers when we visited Lebanon…
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Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower National Monument has been on my must-do list since I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a kid. The…
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Indian Peaks Backpacking
After our two days at Pawnee Lake, we headed down to Crater and Mirror Lake on our outbound leg. But not too quickly…
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Milky Way Over Indian Peaks
So many photos to work on from our Indian Peaks backpacking trip, I had to settle on something easy to get the ball…
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Pawnee Pass Trail
Pawnee Pass Trail – Day One of our Indian Peaks Trip. It’s always best to have the hardest day of your backpacking trip…
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Lost Lake Revisited
It’s been just under 10 years since our last hike up to Lost Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, and we decided that…
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Flat Tops Wilderness
The Flat Tops Wilderness has been on our master travel planning Google Map for well over five years now, and now we don’t…
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North Gap Trail
It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten properly hailstormed during a hike, so we were lucky enough to reset that counter. The…
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Medicine Bow Peak Loop
Part of training for my upcoming Pikes Peak climb is mountains, mountains, mountains – and the Medicine Bow Peak Loop is good practice….
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Lookout Lakes
Lookout Lakes is the perfect first hike in the Snowy Range! Out of the 30 or so hikes I had dropped into my…
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Nash Fork Campground
While we were researching places to go over the long July Fourth holiday weekend, we wanted to avoid all of the tourist crowds….
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Starved Rock State Park
Who knew that there were waterfalls in Illinois? We stumbled across Starved Rock State Park while looking for campgrounds close to our family…
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Indiana Dunes National Park
Since they turned Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore into Indiana Dunes National Park, it moved up our must-do list. Funny that living in Michigan…
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