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The High Sierra Trail (HST) is a hiking trail in Sequoia National Park, California. The trail crosses the Sierra Nevada from west to east. From the plateau of the Giant Forest at Crescent Meadow (elevation 6,700 ft) the trail travels high on…

John Muir, also known as “John of the Mountains” and “Father of the National Parks”, was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.…

Grand Teton National Park is hands-down glorious. The front country alone will take your breath away with its dramatic appearance from the ground. Its towering and unique presence comes from…

At the crossroads of the Mt. Hood, Deschutes, and Willamette National Forests sits the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness. It’s a spectacular corner of the wilds, with sub-alpine forests, meadowed slopes, and…

Similar to Rainer’s Wonderland Trail, Adam’s Round-the-Mountain Trail and Hood’s Timberline Trail, the Loowit Trail around Mount St. Helens is nothing short of spectacular. Like the other perimeter loops, the Loowit…

The Enchantments is a region within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area of Washington state’s Cascade Mountain Range. At an elevation of 4,500 feet, it is home to over 700 alpine lakes and ponds surrounded by…

Washington is home to over 8,000 lakes. Thanks to glacier melt, snow melt, and a complex and seemingly endless network of freezing-and-thawing underground lava tubes, that number is constantly changing.…

There probably isn’t a better place to find stunning waterfalls than Pacific Northwest. There are way to many to mention here, but I am listing the one’s that truly captured…

The Pacific Northwest, sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the Rocky Mountains on…