Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing
AllTrails lists the Ypsilon Trail hike as 9.2 miles, 2,496 feet of elevation gain, and a Medium difficulty rating. I concur with the…
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Hiking Chasm Falls
With permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…
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Climbing Estes Cone
Making use of yet another day of reduced crowds in Rocky Mountain National Park. Normally the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot is completely…
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Rocky Mountain Christmas
Since we love nontraditional holidays – why not a hike in the Park? We figured that crowds would be low, so we would…
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Rocky Mountain Lakes
Off-season means low crowds, might as well bang out some of the hikes you just can’t get to in the summer without hordes…
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Balanced Rock Hike
Although we’ve already done the first section of the Cow Creek Trail, we haven’t done the circuit up to Balanced Rock. While the…
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Gem Lake Hike
The very nice thing about Rocky Mountain National Park being mostly closed – fewer tourists! Slowly as bits of the Park have reopened,…
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Nationalpark Berchetsgaden
Long on our list, but not easily accessible – Nationalpark Berchetsgaden. Surrounded by towering mountains on three sides, Lake Konigssee (The King’s Lake)…
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Mount Rainier Class
Rainier was a big trip for me. Months of grueling preparation. Thousands of dollars of extra gear. Hours and hours spent poring over…
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Windows Arches
Finally got around to publishing Arches National Park photos on our blog, thought I’d share this one since we didn’t see anything amazing…
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Landscape Arch
Another day of enjoying America’s National Parks. Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah
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Tower Arch
Since we could tell that Tower Arch is 4 miles due east of where we have the RV parked, we didn’t want to…
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Arches National Park
If you guessed that Arches National Park was known for well, arches, you might be right. We spent a month just outside of…
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Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde is a prime example of a National Park being established to protect our heritage, instead of providing a recreational area. With…
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Druid Arch
If you’re going to relax, relax in style! Our planned 11 mile hike turned into a little over 18 miles, so it’s a…
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Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park is broken out into three main sections: The Maze – a seldom-visited backcountry on the western side. Island in the…
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Canyon de Chelly Extras
Here are some extra photos from our Canyon de Chelly trip that didn’t make the prime-time cut, but are good memories for us.
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Canyon de Chelly
Canyon de Chelly (pronounced D’Shay) is entirely owned by the Navajo Tribal Trust of the Navajo Nation. It is the only National Park…
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Petrified Forest National Park
Neither of us had visited Petrified Forest National Park before, despite it’s relatively close proximity to the Grand Canyon. As with the other…
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Organ Pipe National Monument
It’s not easy to get to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, but it’s definitely worth the trip! 100 miles southwest of Tucson and…
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