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Northgate Peaks Trail
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Northgate Peaks Trail – 4.2mi / 6.8km In an area known primarily by backpackers, there lies a short, level, day hike. This hike, through the pine forests of the high desert, takes you to an overlook strewn with volcanic rock and features grand views. A drive up the Kolob Terrace Road brings you to the Wildcat…
Day Hikes of Zion National Park Map Guide Announcement
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If you’re heading to Zion National Park, I’ve got a sweet map with a guide on the back to help you make the most of your trip. Last year, in response to all of the requests that I get for people traveling to Glacier, I came out with the Day Hikes of Glacier National Park Map…
West Rim (including Angels Landing)
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The length of the West Rim trail with a side trip up Angels Landing is a great sampler platter of Zion National Park from the ponderosa and oak leaf shrubs of the high desert to the sandstone cliffs and finally down to the Virgin River in the Zion Canyon. In May of 2014 Kristen and…
The Narrows
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The Narrows in Zion National Park competes for one of the top hikes in the national park system. Using the Virgin River as a trail, you walk up a breathtaking canyon where the walls, hundreds of feet in height come together at a scant 22 feet across. Lush plants hang along the walls and contrast…
Northgate Peaks Trail
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The Northgate Peaks Trail in Zion National Park offers seclusion among it’s wonderful ponderosa pines. Unlike busier areas of Zion, people you meet along the trail are most likely backpacking or canyoneering. This level walk along the grassy forest is anything but suffocating and the chance to see a whole different set of animals is great.…
Day Hikes of Yellowstone National Park Map Guide
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The Day Hikes of Yellowstone National Park Map Guide was designed to simply answer the question, “Where should we hike today?” These maps take the wonderful intuitiveness and visualization from a beautiful topographical map that Jake built from the ground up and couple it with short descriptions of all 65 day hikes that you’d get from…
Avalanche Lake Spring 2016 Bike and Hike
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It was a beautiful spring day and we decided to grab out bikes and backpacks and head up to Glacier National Park. I wanted to get a picture of Avalanche Lake on a bluebird day, so we made that our destination. Currently, the Going-to-the-Sun Road is closed at Lake McDonald Lodge, so we needed to…
Siyeh Pass 2016
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Hiking Siyeh Pass in Glacier National Park in July and August inevitably leads to incredible amounts of wonderful flowers and this trip, under a cloudless blue sky, did not disappoint. I was hiking with some friends Mary and Baker who had won a hike with me during the annual Backpacker’s Ball that the Glacier Conservancy puts…
Gunsight Pass 2016
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The long and wonderful hike over Gunsight Pass in Glacier National Park is traditionally done as a two day backpacking trip (or a nice stay at the alpine Sperry Chalet), but we decided to tackle it as an incredible day hike. It was a perfect day full of blue skies, stunning lakes, waterfalls, wildflowers, and…
