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It was scorching hot, about 110 degrees Fahrenheit, but we enjoyed the impressive views on this trail within the Palo Duro Canyon.
Fue un día abrasador, cerca de 110 grados Fahrenheit, pero disfrutamos mucho de las vistas impresionantes a lo largo de este sendero adentro del Cañón Palo Duro.
Photos from Terra Firma Racing's 2018 Dirty Dozen mountain bike race at Bluff Creek Ranch, Warda, Texas.
First time on the trail so I ran a couple miles down the north side then a couple miles down the south trail. Both amazing views! The north side was a little more dangerous with ice patches so more fun :)
Where it never snows.... ski trail in the Sonoran desert. Really? Perhaps they ran out of hiking trail sign...It was rough enough I would not even consider it bikable...
Crawford Path.
Section: Mizpah Spring Hut to Mount Washington on the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire.
Trails Live at Austins Coffee in Winter Park, FL.
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Devastation Trail has always been a favorite walk for me, though it is quite stark, for you see how our native and naturalized plants do return, and begin to colonize the land. Many visitors agree you can skip it for other hikes, but I respectfully disagree; there is something about the place which speaks to me… This is where an ‘ōhi‘a forest was devastated by Kīlauea Iki’s 1959 eruption from vents in nearby Pu‘u Pua‘i (Gushing Hill), and seeing the still barren hillsides is humbling. During the eruption, fire fountains of molten lava shot up as high as 1900 feet tall from the eruptive rifts. The forest was buried by falling pumice to a depth of two meters (over 6.5 feet) and trees were entirely stripped of their leaves. The trail is an easy hike, with an elevation change of only 56 feet, so you can easily stroll the mostly-paved path.
With farm lands and a bit of Tule Lake out there. Looks so nice but I bet there's snow there now, too.
Just checked - snow forecast for the next three days. We'll wait a bit before we go back, I guess.
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July 21st, 2011: Gillem Bluff Trail in Lava Beds National Monument, California.
I "stalked" these trailing arbutus in the South Carolina Sandhills until warm sunshine coaxed the slender buds into full bloom.
Burr Trail Switchbacks, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA.
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Capitol Reef National Park is an American national park located in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north–south axis but an average of just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) of desert landscape (...)
Capitol Reef encompasses the Waterpocket Fold, a warp in the earth's crust that is 65 million years old. It is the largest exposed monocline in North America. (...) The park is filled with brilliantly colored sandstone cliffs, gleaming white domes, and contrasting layers of stone and earth.
The area was named for a line of white domes and cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, each of which looks somewhat like the United States Capitol building, that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold.
The fold forms a north-to-south barrier that even today has barely been breached by roads. Early settlers referred to parallel, impassable ridges as "reefs", from which the park gets the second half of its name. (...)
The park is filled with canyons, cliffs, towers, domes, and arches. The Fremont River has cut canyons through parts of the Waterpocket Fold, but most of the park is arid desert country.
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USA tour September 2006