We're all just back from a wonderful dinner with friends. The talk was all national parks and Alaska with the current Chief of Interpretation at Katmai National Park and the just-about-to-start Chief of Interpretation at Pinnacles National Monument. They hadn't seen Darcy in a couple years, so her chatter amused us in between stories of dream parks and former coworkers. It was a great evening.
Pinnacles is not exactly the most-well-known park out there. We passed a sign for the western entrance about a year ago on our way to Simi Valley for Christmas. I looked it up and was entranced. The name-sake pinnacles are part of an ancient volcano that formed on one of the many, many faults in California. Over time (lots of time), half of the volcano stayed where it was born and the other half traveled north with the fault line about 600 miles to its current location in central California (if I'm remembering correctly from my research a year ago). That is pretty darn cool if you ask me!
I know that an awful lot of my blog readers are already big fans (or employees) of the national parks, but seriously, if you're not already, you should start reading. Our national parks protect some of the most incredibly beautiful and truly awesome places. They are everyone's backyard and should be on everyone's bucket lists.
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And Pinnacles has been the site of condor releases. We're not the only one to take a shine to those awesome rock formations. Love me some condors!
Yep! I'm going to be excited to visit and watch condors! Very cool place.
My three classes of Physical Grography students are currently researching a national park with unique physical feature, learning about the feature and how the NPS preserves the feature. I wish someone would pick this park! I'll check tomorrow and see if some late starter needs a suggestion! I can't help but say hoodoo while introducing the assignment. But I don't tell them what that feature is. One usually reposrts on Bryce Canyon!
I was unfortunately severely under-dressed when we went through Bryce Canyon. I had started the day sunning in shorts in Zion, but it was snowing by the time we hit Bryce! Hoodoos are cool!
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