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Dkos Tour Series: The San Rafael Swell (That Should Be A National Monument)
To DKos Community Readers And Supporters: In the heels of the Nine Mile Canyon posting (see URL: http://www.dailykos.com/...) follows another plea. This time, a huge and fabulous setting needs to get...
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DKos Tour Series: Meteor Crater Landmark (Winslow, AZ)
Given Sunday's posting on a special place in Utah, near Green River (http://www.dailykos.com/...) we mosey south and west to Arizona and will find ourselves in an entirely different planed topography,...
View ArticleDkos Tour Series: Acoma Pueblo (Literally a/k/a/ "Sky City")
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DKos Tour Series: Goblin Valley State Park
Please note: I have had a few emails asking about the Acoma Pueblo diary's posting. It was posted on Thursday, as promised, but there was a lot of other stuff going on that day, something about March...
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DKos Tour Series: Kodachrome Basin State Park
Photo by Digital-ImagesPlease note: Yesterday's Goblin Valley posting was the first of three Utah State Park diaries. And, yes, I have heard from others that the March Madness political stuff tends to...
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DKos Tour Series: Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah
Prologue: Today's diary completes a 3-pack Utah State Park series. Globlin Valley (URL: http://www.dailykos.com/...) and Kodachrome Basin (URL: http://www.dailykos.com/...). If you missed these...
View ArticleDKos Tour Series: The Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
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DKos Tour Series: White Sands National Monument
Prologue: And now for something completely different given the usual diaries that I post. I say 'unusual' without exaggeration, because this monument is conceivably the most singular in all respects....
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DKos Series: Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Prologue: Possibly the most famous caverns in the world. . .that is, below its crust. I, myself, never felt entirely comforting doing the spelunking kind of exploration, but I did enjoy touring the...
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DKos Tour Series: Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona
Nature's most exquisite and winding passageway of form, color and ethereal lightingWith narrow walls and a narrow window of azure-colored skyYet from the raven's higher perspective, utterly...
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DKos Tour Series: Slot Canyon Hikes!
Paria Canyon, the loveliest of slot canyon paradises stretching from Utah into Arizona (and ends at Lee's Ferry (the Colorado River) near PagePrologue: Yesterday's diary, on Antelope Canyon...
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DKos Tour Series: The Grand Falls Of The Little Colorado River
Prologue: This past weekend I posted two diaries on slot canyons: Antelope Canyon (http://www.dailykos.com/...) and one featuring other popular slots (http://www.dailykos.com/...). For today's diary,...
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DKos Tour Series: Grand Canyon National Park (Part 1)
From Desert View, looking east toward the Painted DesertPrologue: I have been asked numerous times, and here I'll paraphrase the gist of those comments, "Rich. . .since you often refer to the Grand...
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DKos Tour Series: Grand Canyon National Park (Part 2)
From the South Rim, looking east toward the lower part of the South Kaibab TrailPrologue: Today's continuing tour of the big ditch of northern Arizona gets a bit heavy given the theoretical explanation...
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DKos Tour Series: Grand Canyon National Park Hiking Trails (Addenda)
Hikers trekking the South Kaibab Trail (photo take by Mike Buchheit, Director of the Grand Canyon Field Institute; my boss in other words!)Prologue: This past weekend featured a two-part series on...
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DKos Tour Series: Wupatki National Monument Archeological Ruins
Location/Geography: In north central Arizona, Coconino County. Nearest settlement: Cameron; nearest city, Flagstaff. Area: 35,254 (50 square miles). Northeast of Sunset Crater/Bonito Lava Flow....
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DKos Tour Series: Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
Prologue: Arizona's Wupatki NM, which I recently posted a diary on same (http://www.dailykos.com/...), but slipped fairly rapidly through the Recent Diary list, reminded me of a complimentary contrast,...
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DKos Tour Series: Valley Of The Gods & Valley Of Fire
Prologue: For some reason I can't explain, I have often heard people mixing up these entirely two different valley settings. The fact is, one is in Utah and the other in Nevada. Moreover, the terrain...
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DKos Tour Series: Hiking The Grand Canyon "Highways" (Special Supplement)
Prologue: Geesh. . .talk about a busy email bout after the Grand Canyon virtual tour series was posted last week! Well, that's what I get for opening a hiking Pandora's box for our illustrious...
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DKos Special Supplement: Plate Tectonics And The World’s Changing Geography...
Prologue: Sometime ago I published a 3-part diary series on the Colorado Plateau (if interested in reading this diary, see this URL to get started: http://www.dailykos.com/...). Given that broad...
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