Hiking Both Sides of the High Sierra

I had never had a student in my five years in outdoor education have to be pulled off a trip before, and this last trip to the High Sierra Mountains was the first time I had to make the call to restructure the trip enough and go with the flow as things changed.

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My Great American Road Trip: The Circle of Discovery

I ended up visiting Crater Lake National Park, the Oregon Caves National Monument, which features a cave system in the Siskiyou Mountains, and the Redwood forests along the northern California coast, which protect some of the tallest trees on Earth.

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My Great American Road Trip: Washington State

My intentions, at the beginning of this long road trip, were to cross mountains off of some list that I felt I needed to tackle. My intentions would later turn into taking advantage of the free time I had to see as much of the world as possible.

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