J. Chu just returned from a five-day trip to Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks. Pictures here. (The Bryce pictures are especially good, but they’re toward the end of his gallery so be patient and check ’em all out).

… from blogging, but if you need some inspiration, check out Calipidder’s pictures of her week on the John Muir Trail.

Those of you who’ve been following my weekly hikes at Busy Being Born couldn’t have helped wondering about what it was with me and all the dead trees. Well, I just like the looks of them. The other day my…

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There I was, poised on a footpath at Sonora Pass, 9,624 feet up on the Sierra crest, surrounded by stately, snow-clad peaks. Stepping backward to get more mountain into my digicam’s viewfinder, I stumbled on a small rock, landed on…

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New West profiles a book of images from Yellowstone, Grand Teton and other scenic-splendor area codes. The author is Edward Riddell of Jackson Hole; comparisons to Ansel Adams are inevitable. What Adams communicated as a non-verbal linguist proclaiming the moods…

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Happened across a great picture of two bald eagles on a branch in Virginia. If that gets you in the birdwatching mood, Dan Mitchell has a few swell pix of pelicans.

… from showing this picture, but I can’t help but post a link to it.

But some are better than others.