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Our National Monuments Introduction

Posted on February 26, 2021, 3:07 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Here are the draft first two parts of the introduction I wrote for “Our National Monuments”. I would appreciate any feedback, either through the linked poll or via comments. I Ask a person on the street to name a national monument, and you will probably hear about the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, or memorials […]
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Mount Logan: The top of the Grand Canyon ecosystem

Posted on February 19, 2021, 3:00 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Day 13 Grand Canyon National Park sees crowds of 5 million visitors per year, but its unknown neighbor, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, is a place of solitude. Protecting the entire Grand Canyon watershed, the monument extends from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to forested mountains 8,000 feet high. In the southeast section of […]
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Around Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

Posted on February 12, 2021, 2:54 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Day 12 To rest my legs from hiking about 18 miles the day before, my plan was to spend a lot of time behind the wheel. I would circle Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (136 miles) and also reach two faraway Grand Canyon points, one at its very east at river level, the other at the […]
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Day Hiking Paria Canyon

Posted on February 5, 2021, 8:43 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Day 11 Zion National Park’s Virgin River Narrows is arguably the most famous canyon hike in the world. Being that Zion National Park is the 7th most crowded national park (per this way of evaluating the “crowd factor”), the Virgin Narrows can feel downright crowded (Five ways to photograph the Zion Narrows without people). The […]
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