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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    dnc said:

    Here's the rough overall route btw if anyone cares


    What I’m getting from all this is that @dnc lives in Graceland
    shhhhhhh
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,843 Swaye's Wigwam
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    I think he lives in Joplin and meets his squeeze at Graceland

    I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
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    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    dnc said:

    Here's the rough overall route btw if anyone cares


    What I’m getting from all this is that @dnc lives in Graceland
    Nah. He’s neighbors with that cousin fucker @SECDAWG
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    dflea said:

    It's not a National Park - but it is a National Forest. I hadn't been to Mt. Baker in years, but we made a trip up there last summer, and grabbed a few good photos.










    There's no good reason that North Cascades hasn't annexed Baker yet. It's literally right on the edge of the park.

    Absolutely gorgeous place.
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,380
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    Also jealous as fuck.

    When I was 10 I went to Calgary and Banff. Mt Assiniboine was amazing (took an helicopter in to the camp) and we went out on the Athabasca glacier. I can only imagine what it looks like now.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
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    YellowSnow said:

    You missed the lead. Sad.

    He didn't miss the lede. What are you talking about? It was right there in the first paragraph:
    dnc said:

    So for context we spent 41 days on the road and I think ended up seeing bits and pieces of 21 American National Parks plus one primary Canadian park (Banff) plus sort of passing through about 3 other Canadian parks. Big quantity over quality trip, we wanted to see as much as possible. It was the wife, myself and three kids, then aged 7, 6 and 2. We put almost 12,000 miles on the minivan round trip. Left Memphis day before Memorial Day, spent about 12 days getting to Seattle (up through TN, AR, MO, KS, started site seeing in Colorado, NW Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and BC), 8 days in Seattle, a couple nights on the Oly peninsula, and another 20 days getting home (through Oregon, California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, then basically done siteseeing and just hustling back through NE NM, TX panhandle, OK, AR, and TN to home).

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited May 2023
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    WASHINGTON PARKS (DAMMIT!)

    After leaving Banff we drove west into BC technically through Yoho, Glacier and Mt Revelstoke NPs, but since we never left the Transcanada Highway there's not really much to report there. We dropped south through Kelowna into Washington until we hit Highway 20 and headed west. I've only been through North Cascades Hwy once as a kid (eastbound) and loved it. This was my first time taking it westbound.

    As with most of our mountainous experiences the first half of this trip the east side had much better visibility than the west. Washington Pass was gorgeous as expected. It would actually end up being the best mountain views we would have in our ten days in Washington.





    Ross Lake is always bittersweet for me - one of the absolute prettiest places I've ever been. But also not real. Like admiring fake tits, hard to look away but you somehow feel a little cheap for it. What can I say, I'm a whore for an emerald alpine lake, even a manmade one.






    The combination of having a 2 year old (and a whiny 7 year old) and the hurriedness of the trip we weren't set up to do much hiking, and sadly didn't get to do any in North Cascades.

    Upon arriving in Seattle it was heavy cloud cover the entire time we were there - the only day the clouds lifted much at all was the day we went to the Space Needle so thankfully the wife and kids got to see Rainier actually exists. We did a day trip to Mt Rainier National Park but it was full blown rain most of the way and snow once we got to Paradise so zero visibility. Still a fun day, saw some sort of grouse, a mama deer and what looked like a brand new baby fawn, and the kids got to play in the snow in June which is a big deal for southern kids.















    After leaving Seattle we did almost two full days on the Olympic Peninsula. Went to see my aunt and some cousins in Port Orchard then drove through @creepycougville (depressing town man!) up to the Rain Forest Village on Lake Quinalt. Just outside Olympic NP but within sight of it, this was a really cool place to stay. My wife absolutely fell in love with the greens on the peninsula, especially here.





    The next day we made the loop around Oly NP. First major stop was Kalaloch, then made a pretty decent hike down to Ruby Beach because the parking lot was under construction so you had to hike from the road.







    We made our way to the Hoh Rainforest which was super busy, we probably had to wait in line at the entrance gate an hour or more to get in. We went on a Sunday (Father's Day actually) so I guess Dads love the rainforest? I know I do.


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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited May 2023
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    Oh, and my only daughter gave me this that morning to celebrate. Hope your kids gave you the honor, respect and unintentional comedy you deserve for Father's Day as well!

    #RaisingBullies


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