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If you really want to know about this blog or its author, you can find the information here. Otherwise, I bet you’d prefer to see the information about my adventures. You can check out the places I have been or you can follow me chronologically:

Spring 2023: TBD

Winter 2023: Texas

Summer 2022: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Spring 2022:

• AZ: Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
• CA:
  • Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
  • Mecca Hills Wilderness
  • Joshua Tree National Park
  • Death Valley National Park
• NV: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
• UT: Capitol Reef National Park

Winter 2022: Big Bend National Park

Fall 2021: NM to UT + TX

• NM: Taos Area
• UT: Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument
• AZ: Grand Canyon – Parashant National Monument, Grand Canyon (North and South Rims)
• TX: Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park

Spring 2021: Texas to California

• TX: Big Bend Ranch State Park, Big Bend National Park
• NM: White Sands National Park, Miscellaneous places
• AZ: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Grand Canyon National Park
• CA: Palm Springs area, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Death Valley National Park

Fall 2020: Washington to Arizona

• WA: Goat Rocks Wilderness
• WA: Mount Rainier National Park
• NV: Ruby Mountains
• UT: Green River
• AZ: Grand Canyon National Park
• AZ: Petrified Forest National Park
• AZ: Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
• UT: Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument
• Anywhere: Humor

Summer 2020: Wind River Range

Winter 2020: Texas

• Big Bend National Park
• Other Places
• Humor

Fall 2019: Southwest Utah and Southern California

• St George area
• Zion National Park
• Pacific Crest Trail segments
• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Summer 2019: Northeast Utah

• High Uinta Wilderness (the primary objective)
• Dinosaur National Monument
• Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

Spring 2019: Death Valley and More

• Death Valley National Park
• Mojave National Preserve
• Valley of Fire State Park (Nevada)

Fall 2018: Nepal’s Annapurna Region

Summer 2018: Yosemite National Park (NE quadrant)

Spring 2018: Nepal: People, Home & Field, Landscape

Spring 2018: Death Valley and Arizona

• Death Valley National Park
• Arizona Trail (passages 19-22)
• Saguaro National Park
• Sonoran Desert National Monument

Fall 2017: Mountain West

• Sawtooth Wilderness (highly recommended)
• Kings Canyon National Park
• Sequoia National Park
• John Muir Trail (highest recommendation)
• Zion National Park
• Miscellaneous Places

Summer 2017: Montana

• Bob Marshall Wilderness
• Glacier National Park

Spring 2017: Southwestern desert

• Antelope Canyon
• Arizona Trail
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Death Valley National Park
• Joshua Tree National Park
• Superstition Wilderness
• Zion National Park

Fall 2016: Montana through Arizona:

• Wind River Range
• Glacier National Park
• Capitol Reef National Park
• Canyonlands National Park:
  • Green River
  • The Maze district
  • The Needles district
  • Island In The Sky district
• Monument Valley
• Grand Canyon National Park

Note: My 2012-2015 trips are shown in a less organized manner than the 2016+ trips, but their pictures are just as exciting.

June and September 2015: ND, AZ, CA: Maah Daah Hey Trail, Arizona, Yosemite

July-August, 2014: North Dakota through Utah: Theodore National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park (briefly), Zion National Park (briefly), more.

July 2013: South Dakota through California: Badlands National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Continental Divide Trail (just one section), Yosemite National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, more.

Or if you wish, you may peruse the list of places I have been.