Mount Rainier National Park...
looking up a Douglas fir in Mount Rainier National Park...
Mount Rainier...
inside Ape Cave, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument... This was the first of three caves I have been in this year. The other two are Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, MO and then Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
camping on Mount St. Helens...
eating the local famous clam chowder...
in the rain forest.
Greg & Nicole.
on the ferry with Greg Cripe heading to Vancouver Island.
view of the Space Needle from the Seattle Art Museum's sculpture garden.
Richard Serra piece at the Seattle Art Museum's sculpture garden.
Space Needle, Seattle Washington.
descent into Sea-Tac airport.
...inside Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park. I'd never heard of this park before the day I visited it...and I'm guessing one reason why is that this park is difficult to photograph, being concave as opposed to convex...but it is a low-key, relaxing National Park to visit early in the day...
Blue Mesa Reservoir, CO...
on US 50 in Colorado...there's a tram at Monarch Pass [the building marked "scenic" in the background] that takes you even higher but unfortunately it was closed for the season...
early Fall in Colorado...
Rocky Mountain National Park...
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. There was a dozen people I saw climbing the Tower while I was there. In the bottom image, including part of the nearby trading post signage made for a nice caption. Now somebody go get me some mashed potatoes...
bison near Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota...
Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Badlands National Park...
Wall Drug [of the Where The Heck Is Wall Drug? bumpersticker fame] in Wall, SD.
