Tag: Dangerous
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The Anxiety-Producing Angel’s Landing Hike
This hike at Zion National Park is for adrenaline junkies. Unfortunately, I only had enough adrenaline to get near the very top but I completed the part with big drop offs left and right.
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Lookout People!
The swells a few weeks ago were crashing pretty high along California’s Pacific Ocean Coastline. Fortunately these two people were not hit by these massive waves and swept to sea.
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Yosemite’s Half Dome
I climbed Yosemite’s Half Dome towards the end of a 65 mile backpack through the High Sierras of California. So my legs were a bit weary when it came time to scale the precipitous granite walls of this iconic rock face. Thankfully, the National Park Service had installed chains and boards to the seemingly vertical…
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Angels’s Landing Anyone?
When visitors to Zion National Park ask me what hike they should try, I tell them if they aren’t afraid of heights and adventure, you must conquer the diabolical Angel’s Landing. I’ve completed it 3 times but see no reason to risk my life again. The peak was named by a Methodist clergyman, Frederick Vining…