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Long Stretch of the Trail Underwater - Turn Around Point
Photos from Jean Lafitte NHP's Barataria Preserve Trails: Ring Levee, Wood Duck & Bayou Coquille. Bayous, flooded trails, boardwalks and swamp land.
Alligator Only a Few Feet from the Boardwalk
[img_full_block 348]South of New Orleans the Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, is a great place to get out of the city and see how the area looks naturally. These photos are from the nature trail by the visitor center. It is a short boardwalk trail that lets you walk through the swamp without getting your feet we...
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Pitcher Plant
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants that attract bugs onto the rim of the pitcher where they slip inside are trapped. Big Thicket has a few areas with them. These are on the Sundew Trail in the Hickory Creek Unit.
[img_full_block 317]They were smaller than I thought and I did not realize that it was them the first time I went by. Onc...
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Wetlands Along Kirby Nature Trail
Big Thicket National Preserve is north of Beaumont in eastern Texas near Louisiana. It a collection of areas rather than a large contiguous park like most NPS areas. It is mainly around creeks and wetlands. This area is a little east of the main visitor center.
This hike was in January, so things are a bit more brown than in most of the ...
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Big Thicket National Preserve - Thumbnail
This video is from two hikes in Big Thicket National Preserve north of Beaumont Texas. The first is in the Turkey Creek area starting on the Kirby Nature Trail the going north along the creek to the Sandhill Loop. Little changes in elevation made a big difference in vegetation with the lower areas having more cypress trees around creeks and wetl...
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There's three thermal areas in the Warner Valley section of Lassen Volcanic NP. This area of the park is much quieter than the west side of the park with the visitor center and through road.
Devil's Kitchen is a mix of fumaroles and hot springs that you can see on a loop trail through the area. Boiling Springs Lake has a collection of ...
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Arrowhead Lake (or is it Right Turn Arrow Lake)<br>Love Lake is just to the right and above the point of the arrow.
After Inkwell Lake there was some more above treeline rock scrambling. Two of us headed over towards Doughnut Lake, which is in a separate drainage from the other until below Arrowhead Lake. We found a great spot which overlooked both Doughnut Lake and Arrowhead Lake. We could also see Love Lake, which is about 200 feet above Arrowhead.
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Inkwell Lake
Rocky Mountain National Park has a road called the Trail Ridge Road, which goes above treeline for several miles. At its Forest Canyon Overlook, you can see several lakes in a side canyon. Many people stop and stare at them, but they get few visitors, since there is no trail to them. I have seen these lakes many times and have been wanting to ge...
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Water Flowing on Glacier Creek
Snowshoe hike in Rocky Mountain National Park near Bear Lake. We went by a couple of frozen lakes and by a snow cover waterfall while following a creek up a valley.
Valley Loop Trail Hike 6-03 - Colorado River 1
On the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park are the headwaters of the mighty Colorado River. To get there from the front range, we drove across the park on the Trail Ridge Road which goes above 12,000 ft. In June, you can see how much snow the park crews had to clear from the road. In some spots, there were snow walls 10 feet high on the si...
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NP Signs
Welcome to my new blog. I will be posting pictures of my trips. Each posting will be about a trip and include a trip report along with the pictures. Many of the pictures will be of mountains and places where most people never go. I plan to create a new post every week. Some posts will be of recent trips, some will be of trips from years ago.
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