Near Yermo, CA in the Mojave desert in California, there's a sculpture park against communism, censorship, and the current mainland China regime.
GSRT2024E
Is there a prosaic explanation for this sacred site? Goal Hiking investigates!
The original Del Taco location is located in Yermo, not far from Barstow in the Mojave desert. Unfortunately it was closed the day that I was driving by.
Known as the home of Spike and as the Paris of the Western World, Needles is also home to a historic railway station.
This is the highest point in Arizona. I had tried it several years ago in May. The snow made finding the trail difficult and because of that I had to turn around at the ridge.
Lava River Cave (
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After getting to 12,633' on Humphreys Peak, I descended about 20' below the Earth's surface in the nearby Lava River Cave.
In Utah, just over the border from Page, Arizona, lies one of the most coveted hikes around: The Wave. This is not it.
These mushrooms were almost fried.
One of the highlights of the GSRT2024 was hiking Mt Taylor outside Grants, New Mexico.
Grants is a small town about 80 miles west of Albuquerque and you can see Mt Taylor from the latter.
Great Sand Dunes (
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After spending a few weeks in your more Alpine areas, it was a huge relief to get back to something warm and dry.
This was my second Colorado 14er and, unfortunately, I did it on a Saturday.
Mt Bierstadt (
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My first Colorado 14er was, aside from the altitude, fairly moderate.
It was a harrowing, 14-hour climbing excursion via the toughest route up Mt Evans aka Mt Blue Sky.
Reynolds Mountain is an 9,130' peak near the Logan Pass visitors' center in Glacier National Park. I failed due to weather.
Mt Oberlin is an 8,184' peak in Glacier National Park that's near the Logan Pass visitor center. While AllTrails says to "proceed cautiously", SummitPost calls it "friendly".
A ranger at Glacier National Park thinks not giving people information is a good idea.
A nice moderate hike in Glacier National Park to two waterfalls.
Grinnell Glacier (
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It doesn't go to a peak, but this is one of the top hikes in Glacier National Park.
On my way to Glacier National Park I had the not-so-bright idea of visiting our hat, aka Canada.
Shelby, Montana (
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Poor Shelby: so close to Canada and so far from California.
I had a case of missing time on my way to Canada.
Normally I'm all over things volcanic, but this national monument didn't live up to expectations.
I kicked off my Great Summer Road Trip 2024 Extravaganza by hiking the River Trail to Thousand Island Lake in the Sierra Nevadas.