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Avid hiker, backpacker, naturalist and logistics wizard sharing her love of all things National Park (and occasionally culinary tourism). www.roadtripaddict.com | Hike. Eat. Travel. Teach. All 📸 mine
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See you later alligator. After a while crocodile. Alligators are smaller, prefer freshwater, and have short, wide snouts while crocodiles live in brackish saltwater and have a distinctive toothy grin. Everglades National Park is the only place where both coexist in the wild. #protectourparks

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Gearing up to hike the Trans-Catalina Trail. Any recommendations or advice before I head out? Any trail related logistics questions you want answered that I can look into while I'm there?

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Monday Morning #MomentOfZen One of the many species of native lupine, also called bluebonnets, in North America.

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Still hoping to stick your head in the sand about what's going on in the White House and its impact on your federally funded services? The National Park Service has you covered! How many of these can you name? #supportfederalworkers #resist #protectourparks #nationalparks #forestservice #nps

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A delightfully insightful, depressingly useful, linguistics thread. "Secondhand embarrassment" just doesn't come close to capturing the deep discomfort, disgust and resentment needed at the moment.

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I recently finished my trip reports from this past summer's 93 mile backpacking trip around Mt Rainier on the Wonderland Trail. It was nearly two weeks of non-stop elevation, wildflowers and mountain bliss. The application period for the early access permit lottery ends on Monday! #nationalparks

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The best #spring flower displays I've ever seen have been off random roads and byways in Texas, seen here outside San Antonio in March. No winter lasts forever. Work to bring beauty to your community. #blueskyartshow #photography #texas #wildflowers #bluebonnets

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All but one of the wilderness rangers at Wenatchee River Ranger District have been fired, in addition to the trail crew, mule packer team, and front country staff. This station oversees the extremely popular Alpine Lakes Wilderness and Enchantments Zone. #protectourparks #nationalparks #USFS #NPS

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I prefer the natural monochrome of granite peaks, sand dunes, and mountain ridges shrouded in mist so this week I've chosen the blue waters, blue hills and blue skies of Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park, BC 🇨🇦 Why should National Parks have all the fun? #BlueSkyArtShow #monochrome #photography

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The early access lottery for Wonderland Trail permits open today! Here's everything you need to know about planning a successful thru-hike around Mt Rainier National Park, including tips to maximize your ability to get your preferred itinerary. Who's hoping to hike the Wonderland Trail in 2025?

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Monday morning #MomentofZen A spectacular sunset from Wailea Beach, Maui. #hawaii #sunset #photography

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The ʻāhinahina, or silversword, is a rare plant of the aster family endemic to the summit of Halealakā. Silverswords can live upwards of 90 years, and bloom only once in their lifetime, sending up a tall stalk of flowers before dying. I wrote about my trip to Haleakalā at: https://buff.ly/415wyhK

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Early morning #reflections of Grinnell Point in the waters of Swiftcurrent Lake 📍Glacier National Park, Montana, USA #blueskyartshow #nps #photography #protectourparks #mountains #nationalparks

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My first backpacking trip was to Grand Staircase Escalante. It was there I discovered the missing piece of myself. To not see another trace of human activity across the horizon is deeply humbling and indescribably grounding. Public lands serve as so much more than non-renewable energy reserves.

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Breathe in . . . breath out . . . A moment of serenity in the Core Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness. What I wouldn't give to have that feeling again. #nature #photography #momentofzen #nationalforest #USFS #protectourparks

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March 1, 1872 “For the first time in my life, I slept out in the open air. During the night it rained a little but not enough to wet us to any extent. Got up early enough in the morning to get our breakfast, and commence photographing as soon as the sun rose.” From diary of artist Thomas Moran.

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Morning morning #MomentofZen A quiet morning from the foot of Glenn Lake, Glacier National Park. #nationalpark #photography #nature #nps #recharge #protectourparks

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👀 Current state of our civil servants. Not fun fact: AltNPS began in 2017 after the Trump administration suspended the NPS Twitter account for RTing a photo of inauguration crowds. Now it to spreads awareness of the troubling actions occurring within federal agencies.

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What a fascinating phenomenon! Thin strands of spun volcanic glass, named after the deity of Hawaiian volcanoes, being formed in Kīlauea's eruption in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 🌋 #volcano #hawaii #nationalpark #hvnp

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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is the US side of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that straddles the border between Arizona and Mexico. This area of the Sonoran Desert - or Green Desert - is the only place in the US where the Organ Pipe Cactus grows wild. #nationalparks #organpipenm #desert #nps

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Woodland Pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea) - a mycoheterotrophic plant that uses root fungi for nutrients rather than photosynthesis. No green leaves here! Found these growing along the Wonderland Trail in the river valleys of Mount Rainier. #mountrainiernationalpark #wildflowers #fungi #nature

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