Sometimes simple is best. At least that’s what I think the namers of Washington’s First Beach were thinking when they came up with that moniker.
Green Overload in the Hoh Rain Forest
Let’s start by getting all your jokes about the name out right now. I’ll go: If a tree falls in the rain forest, does a ho hear it? Ha ha! Hilarious!
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Tagged Forests, National Parks, Trees, Washington
Slowing Down at Kalaloch Beach
Sam and I had been on the road a few weeks by the time we found the campground at Kalaloch Beach (“clay-lock”) in Olympic National Park, Washington.
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Tagged Beaches, National Parks, Trees, Washington
Green and Blue Heaven in the Cascades
My favorite color combination – what, you don’t have one? – is green and blue. I realized this when I looked around my house the other day and saw those colors featured in almost every room.
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Tagged Lakes, Mountains, National Parks, Trees, Washington
John Day Painted Hills Unit
I titled the post this because a) it’s what the national monument is called, and b) it sounds like jibberish. As if I, apropos of nothing, announced, “Millard Fillmore Batik Scarf Squadron.”
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Tagged National Parks, Oregon
The Deepest Lake in the U.S., or How I Was Converted
I don’t usually get too excited about lakes.
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Tagged Islands, Lakes, National Parks, Oregon
Sequoia National Park
The first chunk of this last Scamp was clouded with smoke from all the wildfires in the West. The worst was at Sequoia National Park.
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Tagged California, Forests, National Parks, Trees
Cape Flattery
Cape Flattery in Washington state is not, in fact, a place to go when you’re feeling insecure and need some praise.
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Tagged Beaches, Washington
Into the Mystic
Redwood National Park is in the very northwest corner of California, home to the tallest trees on the planet. And for me, it was a highlight of what turned out to be an almost seven-week Scamp.
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Tagged California, Forests, National Parks, Trees
Summer Snow at Mt. Rainier
It was a first: I visited a National Park and didn’t get one photograph of what I was there to see.
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Tagged Mountains, National Parks, Snow, Washington