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National Parks own, and Zion is a good #1 choice. Did you hike The Narrows at all? That one is in my Top 5 list, and we'll be back to do the whole thing from the top down on an overnight some day. I'm a little bummed out because we're not traveling to any awesome NP's this summer due to a baby on the way, but we did make it to the Grand Canyon back in April. Since kicking off our NP trips in June 2012, we've been to: 2012 Yosemite 2013 Glacier 2014 Bryce Canyon Zion Capital Reef Mt. Rainier Olympic Mammoth Cave 2015 Yosemite again Volcanoes Haleakala Kaloko-Honokōhau Shenandoah 2016 Some of the historic sites around Boston that are part of NPS Acadia (twice) Crater Lake Mt. St. Helens Point Reyes 2017 Montezuma Castle Grand Canyon 2018 Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes [??] national forests and wilderness areas are also extremely good and cool!
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Concerned Citizen posted:one of my shots from highline trail in glacier national park yesssssssssssssssssssssssss favorite trail, probably favorite park My wife and I both hyper-extended our knees on the way down the "loop" trail on the way down because we ran across a couple of bear cubs and were trying to keep up with the party ahead of us. Of course this was Day 1 and it made hiking the rest of the trip a little difficult until we found some hiking polls and ace bandages a couple of days later. We also unintentionally recreated this Ansel Adams shot our first night at Lake MacDonald e: this is the Adams shot, our composition isn't as good (duh) but apparently we had the same eye for a great spot to take a photo 
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:not nearly enough love itt for acadia I don't have my Acadia photos available online, but both my wife and I felt like it was the best park we've been to for pure day hiking. So many trails all over the place.
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Starved Rock is really cool for Illinois. I had a coworker who used to go ice climbing on La Salle falls in the winter. Whole bunch of eagles feast on the fish near the dam in the winter.
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May 22, 2017 21:41
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Larry Parrish posted:If your out this way on a parks tour you oughta stop at the valley of fire near Lake Meade and also Crystal basin/loon lake/desolation wilderness near Tahoe We did the hike from Echo Lakes to Aloha Lake back in 2012. That was a great trail.
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May 23, 2017 14:55
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We saw about a dozen condors up close as Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in the Big Sur area a few years ago. They were in a tree right next to the McWay Cove overlook McWay Cove (not my photo)  Condors (my photos)  
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/867364590547587072
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May 24, 2017 16:43
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lancemantis posted:The trick is to go out of season, on weekdays, and/or not go to the 4 anyone actually remembers Yeah that is the trick. My wife and I had the entire Panaroma Trail at Yosemite to ourselves a couple of years ago until we got back down to Nevada Falls because we got out on the trail early.
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May 25, 2017 14:50
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went to the Midewin National Tallgrass Prarie yesterday
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May 30, 2017 11:01
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Coolguye posted:this was basically my reaction when i went hiking with my friend and dog in the Wichita Wildlife Reserve in Oklahoma last fall. we crested the top of a small ridge and rolled up on a wild longhorn bull no more than 10 yards away. The ones we saw were behind 8' fencing, because apparently 1500 lb buffalo can leap over 6' fences 
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Crazyweasel posted:Went on a 2 week national park trip in May...Zion, arches, Grand canyon, Bryce. Before that my friends and I camped cross country after college and hit a lot. We got to the narrow part/the base of where the real scramble on Angel's Landing starts and decided against it because it was so drat busy and neither of us are super comfortable with exposed heights. We did Observation Point the next morning instead, 5/5 would recommend, start early so you get really cool shadows in the slot canyons and so it's not 100 degrees full exposure hiking straight up canyon walls. 
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entire hiking suforum here https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=272
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