The Trailhead

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
John Keats

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I feel like fall only just arrived in the Rockies yet yesterday we woke up to snow. The larches are now losing their needles and there's a familiar chill in the air. The fleeting nature of fall here is part of what makes it so special at Kootenay National Park, British Columbia.

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The fall color in the Tetons this year was spectacular

Photo credit Kristen Ryan

Crested Butte

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“Can’t get enough of these fall views in the Adirondacks”

Photo credit Tony Colasurdo

Absolutely spectacular morning in the High Country of North Carolina. 58° and feeling like fall.

Photo credit Patrick Rockey

The beauty of September in Washington.

Photo credit Luke Kelly

My petition to run away for overnight backpacks in the Uintas way more often!

Photo credit Bri Sullivan

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Robert Frost

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"All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again..."
Thomas Wolfe

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"We're under the same sky with different stories"

royricephotography.com / Canon EOS 5D Mark II / 28-70mm L