And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years. ― Abraham Lincoln
Devils Tower National Monument - Wyoming
"If I croak while I’m doing this, at least I’ll die doing something I wanted to do, and I’ve had a good and long run.” - Dr. Bill Weber, 91 said the climb was tougher than he expected. At points, he wondered if he would make it. (Sept 22, 2018 - Breaks the climbing record as oldest to climb Devils Tower)
Grand Tetons National Park Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park – Day 3
“It spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay, the columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. We gave it the name of "Old Faithful."
- Nathaniel P. Langford wrote in his 1871 Scribner's account of the expedition
Yellowstone National Park - Day 2
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Glacier National Park & Livingston, Montana
Driving South through Canada's Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta
The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet: to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by the human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed and unclimbed peaks. - July 1898, British explorer J. Norman Collie
Top of the World Highway
Loony Island, Charlie Hamilton’s Place
Denali National Park
Key West, Florida to the Arctic Circle, Alaska
Canada/Alaska Drive North
Campbell River, British Columbia
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Mount St. Helens, Washington
“Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash and propelled by waves of super heated gas erupting out of the crater, rumbled down the slopes and crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks.” – Time Magazine
Portland, Oregon
Crater Lake, Oregon
"I thought I had gazed upon everything beautiful in nature as I have spent my years traveling thousands of miles to visit the beauty spots of the earth, but I have reached the climax. Never again can I gaze upon the beauty spots of the earth and enjoy them as being the finest thing I have ever seen. Crater Lake is above them all." - Author Jack London, 1911
