national park

After visiting California's Coastal Redwoods, we traveled up to Oregon's Crater Lake and loved it. What a great, amazing place to visit. Stunningly beautiful and a great time in the campground. I put a few shots on Flickr mingled with the Coastal Redwoods but the full gallery is here. James, Autumn, and I hiked down to the lake -- where James and I jumped in. It was cold.

Back when Michelle was all preggers in 2015, we took a light hiking and camping trip to the coastal redwoods in California and Oregon's stunning Crater Lake. What a trip! These are the highlights from California. Some on Flickr and the full gallery here.

In an epic 5,000ish mile roadtrip from Minnesota to Oregon and up through Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, Michelle and I got to see great friends, incredible natural beauty, and listen to hours upon hours of podcasts. Heaven. All the photos are here and select photos are on Flickr.

After having a great hike over 3 days and two nights through the Grand Canyon, we visited Zion National Park with weary legs. A few photos in our Zion gallery.

Photos from our 2012 hike down into the Grand Canyon and back out. Full gallery here.

In 2012, Michelle and I took an AWESOME road trip through the southwest, stopping first at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. We spent the night in a tent, with lows around 15-18 or so. Hard to tell at that temperature. Full gallery here.

Last year, Michelle and I squeezed a quick trip to Isle Royale National Park out of weekend - full gallery here. We took the ferry to the island, hiked to a camping pad by the lake, slept well, and hiked back to the dock the next morning. We got soaked on the first day - it was raining the whole morning on the ferry ride and our path was soaked. But it cleared up in the afternoon and the second day was beautiful.