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New River Gorge National Park & Preserve became the United State’s 63rd and newest National Park on December 27,2020.  It had previously been designated as a National River back in 1978.  The park...

Day 1 – Travel to Port Angeles, Washington We left the East Coast very early in the morning and after a 1 hour layover in New York City, we landed in Seattle.  Flying over the Cascade Mountain...

In January of 2020 I booked a 5 day hiking trip to Death Valley with REI for March of that year.  Less than 2 months later, the COVID-19 pandemic exploded.  Two days before I was to fly out to...

Seventeen months after I had to cancel my REI hiking trip to Death Valley due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was finally going on vacation!!  Back in May 2021, Colin mentioned that he had...