Centennial Stories
These lands are your lands; these tales are your tales.
Greetings from Yosemite National Park
In 1976, my wife & I, took a month long cross country camping adventure for our 1st wedding anniversary. We drove from Miami, FL to San Francisco, CA in our 1969 Karman Ghia-VW. Stopping to visit or camping in 14 Nat'l Parks or Nat'l Monuments including Hot Springs, AR, Aztec Ruins, NM, Mesa Verde, CO, Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, UT, Yosemite, CA. On our way back Grand Canyon, Wupatki, Sunset Crater,…
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Greetings from Isle Royale National Park
Treasures come in all shapes and sizes but the treasure experienced within the heart has no limits as to the wealth that it provides. It was less than a week prior to leaving on our backpacking trip to Isle Royale when my teenage daughter declared that she was not interested…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In the summer of 1957, my bride and I lived in a snug two room log cabin 6 miles up Cascade Canyon, just two miles below Lake Solitude. My job as ranger was to patrol the trail to Lake Solitude and the South Fork of Cascade Canyon, interact with the…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
It was September, 2011, and I was in the midst of what I called my trek. I had promised myself that I would visit Glacier NP after seeing pictures of it somewhere or other. About one year earlier I had been diagnosed with cancer and during the period when I…
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
There is little that compares to the tranquility of the ending day in Yosemite's Wilderness. The whispering of soft breezes through the limbs of the trees and the filtered, low-angle light reflecting like jewels on the rippling surfaces of alpine lakes, give me a sense of peace like few other…
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
My park story begins with an acceptance to the University of California Merced. I'm a first-generation college student and a first-generation park ranger. Wild places have offered me a variety of things. I've seen the Milky Way for the first time and cried as I watched others experience it for…
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Greetings from Shenandoah National Park
Back when my wife and I were just dating, we used to go hiking to the top of Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park fairly often. I decided to propose to her near the top, and secretly packed a tripod and camera in my backpack to enable me to capture…
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