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Hawaii

Illinois

Starved Rock in early March

Matthiessen and Starved Rock

Pullman

Illinois & Michigan Canal Trail

Illinois Forest Preserves

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Illinois forest

Globe on the fork

Chicago, Winter 2019/2020

Lyric Opera at Millennium Park

Picnic at Ravinia

Hyde Park and Palos Forest Preserve

Osaka Garden – Hyde Park Chicago

Cache River and Shawnee National Forest

McKinley Woods-I&M Canal trail (IL)

Indiana & Michigan

Michigan Upper Peninsula day 6-11: Porcupine Mountains

Michigan Upper Peninsula day 1-5: Pictured Rocks

Isle Royale

Hiking Isle Royale

Isle Royale, day 10-12: Moskey Harbor to Chippewa Harbor to Pattison Park to Chicago

Isle Royale, day 8&9: Todd Harbor to McCargoe Cove to Moskey Harbor

Isle Royale, day 6&7: South Desor Lake to Hatchet Lake to Todd Harbor

Isle Royale, day 4&5: Windigo to South Desor Lake

Isle Royale, day 1-3: Chicago to Porcupine Lake Wilderness (WI) to Windigo

Manistee Forest

Hiking in Manistee forest

Camping in Manistee forest

Manistee River Trail

Indiana Dunes National Park

Michigan harbors

Sleeping Bear Dunes

Michigan havens

Iowa & Missouri

Effigy mounds on Mississippi River

Elephant Rocks and Johnson’s Shut-Ins

Onondaga Cave and canoeing on Meramec River

Puerto Rico

11-day trip to Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico day 9-11: Bosque de Guánica and north coast (Arecibo – San Juan)

Puerto Rico day 7 & 8: Ruta Panorámica and Rio Tanamá

Puerto Rico day 5 & 6: El Yunque and San Juan

Puerto Rico day 1-4: Vieques

Smokys 2015 & 2018

Great Smoky Mountains 2018

Great Smoky Mountains days 8-9: Derrick Knob to Marks Cove and back to Tremont, and going home

Great Smoky Mountains days 6-7: back to Spence Field and on to Derrick Knob

Great Smoky Mountains day 5: Mollies Ridge to Gregory Bald and Sheep Pen Gap

Great Smoky Mountains day 4: Spence Field to Mollies Ridge

Great Smoky Mountains day 3: Tremont to Spence Field

Great Smoky Mountains days 1-2: from Chicago to Elkmont

Great Smoky Mountains backcountry hike 2018

Mammoth Cave & Smoky Mountains

Southwest 2022

Southwest 2022: road and hiking trip

Southwest day 24 – 29: Canyonlands NP and return to Chicago

Southwest day 23: Horseshoe Canyon (Canyonlands NP)

Southwest day 20 – 22: Cottonwood Canyon Rd, Burr Trail Rd and Headquarters Canyon/Notom Rd

Southwest day 15 – 19: hiking down Buckskin Gulch and Paria River Canyon

Southwest day 11 – 14: Hovenweep and Bears Ears

Southwest day 9 & 10: Ah-shi-sle-pah and Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness

Southwest day 7 & 8: Chaco Culture

Southwest day 1 – 6: Palo Duro, El Malpais & El Morro

Heading West

West 2003-2021

John Muir Trail

John Muir Trail 2021

5-day return to Chicago

JMT day 28 & 29: Mt Whitney and to finish in Lone Pine

JMT day 24-27: from Independence to Mt Whitney base above Guitar Lake

JMT day 18-23: from Upper Palisade Lake to Independence

JMT day 13-17: from Muir Trail Ranch to Upper Palisade Lake

JMT day 5-12: from Red’s Meadow to Muir Trail Ranch

JMT day 1-4: from Tuolumne Meadow to Red’s Meadow Resort

From Chicago to Yosemite

Ready for John Muir Trail 2021

John Muir Trail (cancelled in 2020)

Portland

Grand Teton-Yellowston-Bighorn Mountains-Black Hills-Badlands

Yellowstone

Grand Teton Crest Trail

Desolation Wilderness-Yosemite-Mono Lake-Lassen Volcanic

Las Vegas-Death Valley-Mojave Desert-Joshua Tree

National Parks of the West

Wisconsin

Weekend at Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin

Memorial Day weekend in Wisconsin

Mirror and Devil’s lakes

Madison

Door County, Wisconsin

Sauk County, Wisconsin

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