Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park
Miles Davis and the Grand Canyon NP. Strange? During the summers of 1967-68-69 I worked as a seasonal park ranger. During 1967 & 68 I was assigned to Desert View District with three other seasonals and a District Ranger. We only were officially on duty from 7am to 10pm. I…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In May 2008 we went to Grand Teton National Park and stayed at the Signal Mountain Lodge. We were among the first of the season as it seemed like they were just getting the sheets out of storage for the beds. We decided to hike to the Signal Mountain overlook…
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Greetings from Denali National Park & Preserve
Our bus tour of Denali National Park started out with beautiful scenery, sightings of caribou, moose & ptarmigan, but we never expected to have the sighting of a lifetime. Our bus driver received a call on his radio that up ahead in a riverbed there was a caribou carcass that…
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Greetings from Olympic National Park
In September of 1971 my then-husband and I, along with my brother, backpacked up the Elwah for a quick weekend trip. Sitting around the campfire, we joked about maybe we should string our backpacks high up between two trees, the way we did when backpacking in Canada, in order to…
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Greetings from Big Bend National Park
Ocotillo Sundown We stand in the desert staring at the Chisos Mountains reddening in silence, each little rocky crag and slit given emphasis with nearby prickly pears brilliantly lit, but perhaps the most striking thing proves to be the way the setting sun illuminates spiked ocotillo plants with tiny red…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
In 2006 I had just finished 6 months of chemo for Stage 3B cancer. It had been a long winter in Minnesota, and during my chemo treatments, I'd been inside for most of the winter, watching movies, reading, writing a little, and doing a lot of self reflection. When…
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Greetings from Capitol Reef National Park
On a road trip in 2005 we were in Capitol Reef driving through one of the roads that follow one of the canyons that are a wash for heavy rains. There was quite a bit of traffic. We were in a convertible. We had a CD playing, when all of…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In 2010, Alan and I returned to the Chapel of the Transfiguration. We were married there in 1970. A few days after this photo, we climbed the Grand Teton. We met in Glacier National Park in the summer of 1969. We have visited 38 other National Parks and they were…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
As a child summer vacation trips were a rare and special treat for our family. One of the best was the year we traveled to Tennessee to the Great Smoky Mountains for a week of camping fun. Coming from the rolling hills of southern Indiana I had never seen a…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
I have taken many trips to the Smokies. Fall is my favorite time to go. The colors are breathtaking! I love Cades Cove and imagine what it might have been like to live in this remote place. We were able to watch sorghum molasses being made on one fall trip.…
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