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Backcountry Trail Pics

by Darin LetzringPublished at Smashwords

by Backcountry Adventures PressCopyright 2011

Thanks to God for His great backyard!

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Table of Contents

IntroductionPhotos and Their Story

About the Author

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Introduction

I'm a big fan of spending quality time in the backcountry, away fromall the hustle and bustle of the world. In the past ten years, I've seensome really great scenery in the backcountry of the national parksand wilderness areas in the western United States. I like to take alittle point and shoot camera with me to capture some of the scenesand put the really nice photos on my wall as a reminder of the beautyof God's world and the solitude that can be had with just a bit ofeffort.

All you have to do is get off the pavement and wander just threemiles down a trail. My mantra is now "Three miles to a differentworld," and that's truly how I feel, although many of the pictures areat least ten miles from a road or trailhead. You'll also notice thatthere are some pictures taken in the winter. That's right, backcountryadventures don't end when the snow flies. All you have to do isembrace the weather, get the right gear, and plan accordingly.

This book is meant to be a "quick read" in that it should only take

10-15 minutes to view, but I hope the impressions of the pictures lastalot longer than that. You might also want to keep it handy to reviewwhen you get sick and tired of the office cubicle.

The photos in this picture book were taken with a Sony T2 or CanonD10 basic camera on full-auto settings. Nothing fancy. These photoshaven't been touched up at all. The colors you see are the colors Isaw to the best representation that the camera could make, which is

normally near 100%. With each photo is a quick blurb about thephoto that leaves enough of the story to let your imagination run.

I also want to take this opportunity to ask everyone who venturesinto the backcountry to follow the Leave No Trace principles(www.lnt.org) as much as possible. This will help preserve the

backcountry for our next generations.

Feel free to add your own backcountry bucket list items atwww.backcountrybucketlist.blogspot.com!

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Happy hiking, skiing, fishing, and whatever other backcountryadventures you have in mind!

Darin Letzringdarin@backcountryadventurespress.comwww.backcountryadventurespress.com

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Soda Butte Creek in the northeast corner of YellowstoneNational Park is a great place to fish in the fall. There isnormally a herd of buffalo in any picture from this part ofthe park. Beautiful scenery, with standout blue color of thewater.

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Slough Creek is also in the northeast part of YellowstoneNational Park. The valley formed by the creek is one ofmy favorite places in the world. Very peaceful.

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Colors like this are usually reserved for the Sierras, but thisis in the Rocky Mountains at a campsite near SloughCreek. The colors that evening were surreal, and this photohas not been retouched.

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Alaska Basin in Teton Canyon on the west side of theTeton Mountains is a wonderful place to hang out for aweekend. Our campsite was next to this creek, and wespent a lot of time just looking and listening to it. The

perfect place for dinner if you ask me!

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This is my wife, Tera, walking near the cable to go up HalfDome in Yosemite National Park. The weather was reallycold and snowy this day, so we didn't take a chance onsummiting. I call this photo "Not Today" because we hadone day in our trip to go up Half Dome and it wasn't goingto happen that day for safety reasons. This is our reason tomake it back there some day.

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A sunset on "The Salamander" in Glacier National Park.This view is from Granite Park Chalet.

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Courthouse Towers in Arches National Park.

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In the Idaho mountains. On an unnamed peak in the middleof the Sawtooths on the left. On the right, hiking down

from the top of Mount Borah, the highest peak in Idaho.Notice the contrast in ecosystems in the background. Theselocations are about 65 miles apart on a straight-line.

A deserted island of the coast near Loreto, Mexico.

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Hiking up the ridgeline of Pebble Creek Ski Resort to thetop of Bonneville Peak on an incredible mid-April blue-

bird day.

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The rewards for hiking uphill are fresh powder runs on"the backside."

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This large moose had his dinner right next to us while weate our dinner below the Cirque de Towers in the WindRiver Mountains.

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This is a standard view of cross-country skiing in southeastIdaho. The overcast clouds combine with the snow andnaked aspens to create an almost black-and-white world.The peace while skiing single-track in the mountain calmcan't be described; it can only be experienced.

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Bison graze in a winter meadow near the Madison River inYellowstone National Park.

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I call this photo of the bison near Old Faithful "Five MoreMinutes" because that is about how long it will be until thesun hits them and they can warm up a bit.

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Camp in the Black Canyon area of the Yellowstone Riverin Yellowstone National Park. The different shades arecreated by the clouds from an intense thunderstorm that

just passed over camp.

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Fishing the Yellowstone River for native cutthroat inYellowstone National Park. I call this "Right Where IWant To Be" because, frankly, it is right where I want to

be on most summer days.

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About The Author

Darin Letzring lives in Pocatello, Idaho with his wife and two boys.He and Tera have enjoyed seeing God's backyard, the backcountryof most of the National Parks in the western U.S. He is anxious toget his young boys out into the backcountry.

See more atwww.backcountrybucketlist.blogspot.comwww.backcountryadventurespress.comwww.backcountrycutts.blogspot.comwww.backcountrycutts.com

Other Books By Darin"Yellowstone's Backcountry Cutthroats""The Backcountry Bucket List"

E-mail Darin at [email protected]

Morning coffee near Slough Creek in Yellowstone N.P.

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