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  1. Seven Bridges Trail Looking Up

    After walking along Seven Bridges Trail in North Cheyenne Canyon in Colorado Springs for a while, the trail becomes very steep. It is precariously located on the side of a mountain.

  2. Stormy Day at Red Rock Canyon

    The lovely view from our place in a cave where we were hiding out from the rain.

  3. Zion National Park

    One of the most popular travel destinations in the world, Zion National Park provides some of the most stunning panoramas, slot canyons, and hiking experiences anywhere.

  4. Long Canyon

    The Long Canyon is one of many canyons in the Trinity Alps in north eastern California. The geology and flora and fauna are different from that of the Sierras.

    Many canyons, including the Long Canyon, lead to alpine lakes.

  5. Helen Hunt Falls

    Located in North Cheyenne Canyon, a Colorado Springs city park that takes you worlds away from the city within minutes. Helen Hunt Falls was named after the author of the book Ramona, who lived in Colorado Springs.

  6. Polar Express

    In Williams, AZ (Northern Arizona) from November to the first week of January, there is a Christmas event for families. The Grand Canyon Railway has recreated the movie "The Polar Express".

  7. National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido"

    The National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" is situated in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees at Huesca, Aragón.
    Declared a National Park in 1918 by a Royal Decree, this IUCN Category II National Park becomes every year meeting point for mountaineers and
    families around Europe and even overseas.
    Today it has 156 km² and it's included in the Biosphere Reserve of "Ordesa-Viñamala" declared by UNESCO in 1997.

    Its orography is dominated by the calcareous mass (the biggest of Europe) of the massiff of the Three "Sorores", "Treserols", whose greater elevation is the "Monte Perdido" (3355m), from which in a more or less radial form descend a series of impressive mountainous crests and glacial valleys beeing the most characteristic the "Ordesa Canyon (or Valley)".

    In the French territory it's called "Pyrenees" National Park and it shares with Spain wonderful places like the "Circus of Gavarnie" (a glacial cirque with the highest waterfall in Europe with more than 400 meters of vertical fall) or the impressive "Brecha de Rolando -Brèche de Roland in french-" a natural gap, 40m across and 100m high at an altitude of 2804m.

  8. Mountain Moment

    Johnston's Canyon waterfall is in Banff, National Park - close to the town of Banff. They call it in Canada the heart of the Rocky Mountains.

  9. San Rafael Valley

  10. North Cheyenne Canyon

    North Cheyenne Canyon is a jewel in the city parks system of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located a mere 15 minutes from downtown Colorado Springs, driving up into this canyon takes you worlds away from the city into a 1,000 foot deep granite canyon and on into the rugged mountains themselves.