This post covers a trip on which I first explored a national park and then undertook a historical scavenger hunt. Feel free to accompany me on one or both of my adventures. The photo to the left is a cypress “swamp” view from Congaree National Park. Clicking on the images in this post will enlarge […]
Tag: Hiking
Of Lemurs and Fossa
Madagascar Wildlife-Part 2 My obsession with lemurs took me on an adventure where I spent 19 days in Madagascar. In a previous post, I wrote about the country and its people. This post will detail my trip and describe the flora and fauna I encountered in the dry forest region of western Madagascar. Clicking on […]
Easy to Reach Waterfalls Near Mt. Shasta
There are four beautiful and easy to see waterfalls in the Mt. Shasta region of northern California that can be visited in a single day. Three are on the upper section of the McCloud River in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and the fourth is in McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. The McCloud River waterfalls and […]
Gold Butte National Monument
National parks are places that have been set aside to protect an environmentally or culturally important area. There are currently 63 national parks, and I have been able to visit 40 of them. Although everybody has heard of our national parks, many people have no idea that there are 129 other parks termed national monuments […]
Echo Basin – In Search of Wildflowers
Late June through July is the prime wildflower season in the high meadows of the Oregon Cascades. I decided to hike the Echo Basin Trail in the Willamette National Forest on a wildflower quest. This trail is located between the Santiam and Tombstone Passes in the “Old Cascades”, a geological region of mountains that are […]