#opconthisday — Public Fediverse posts
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Some fossils in the Kaibab National Forest overlooking Marble Canyon, #opcOnThisDay in 2015.
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#WildlifeWednesday from #opcOnThisDay in 2022, a visit to what is now called White Horse Hill National Game Preserve in North Dakota.
I visited because it used to be called Sullys Hill National Park, and well, I have a quest to visit all “former” (decommissioned or transferred) National Park units in the US (because of course I do).
https://rscottjones.com/quests/former-national-park-units-quest/
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#opcOnThisDay in 2017, I was lucky to coincide my visit to Pullman National Historical Park (at the time, a newly designated national monument) with Labor Day, which is cool given its infamous role in labor organizing.
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It's not hard to find a Lincoln statue near Springfield, Illinois. Here are four that I ran across #opcOnThisDay in 2012.
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Another #SilentSunday from #opcOnThisDay in 2023 in #Wales.
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A few throwbacks I had posted to Facebook during a trip #opcOnThisDay in 2010.
↖️ Amazing cave drapery room in Paradise Lost, Oregon Caves National Monument
↗️ Sandwich time along a black sand beach, Redwoods National and State Parks
↙️ Fern Canyon, Redwoods National and State Parks
↘️ Shelter Cove along the Lost Coast area of King Range National Conservation Area.Wish I had brought a nicer camera than my old iPhone for that trip!
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Here’s a #TentViewTuesday shot from the campsite we woke up in #opcOnThisDay in 2022.
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A #ThickTrunkTuesday photo detailing where you can find trees to photograph for #ThickTrunkTuesday 😂 #opcOnThisDay in 2022
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Here’s a grizzly checking us out in Denali National Park #opcOnThisDay in 2018, hoping he’ll make a future edition of #WildlifeWednesday. Congrats, Mr Bear, you’ve done it!
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This #TentViewTuesday is from Badlands National Park, back #opcOnThisDay in 2007. The high was 108° that day and the wind died down just as we returned to camp for the evening, so this was a HOT night—I remember stripping nekked and sleeping directly on my thermarest, which was just soaked with sweat. Pretty sure we bailed for a cheap hotel the next night.
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#opcOnThisDay in 2007, I visited the only national park unit where you park in one state and walk to the primary attraction in another: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site in MT/ND.
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William Clark's inscription on Pompeys Pillar during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. #opcOnThisDay in 2007
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Like a salted margarita rim. 🧂🍸❄️⛰️ Rocky Mountain #NationalPark, #opcOnThisDay last year.
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It’s a shot from Highline Trail in Glacier National Park for #MountainMonday, #opcOnThisDay in 2006.
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A V-notch vista, located about halfway between Pagosa Springs and South Fork, from #opcOnThisDay last year. #Colorado #RockyMountains #Roadtrip
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I’m a sucker for this particular rock formation on Navajo RT12, #opcOnThisDay in 2022.
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Sneaking in a #WaterfallWednesday post from #opcOnThisDay in 2012 in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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#opcOnThisDay in 2009, I visited Golden Spike NHS, the spot where the first transcontinental railroad was completed.
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We spent #opcOnThisDay in 2018 with some friends at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then stopped at Lees Ferry, and got #LostNeededDirections in Flagstaff.
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#opcOnThisDay in 2018, Jen and I visited Aztec Ruins in New Mexico, which features an unusual feature: a re-creation of full kiva. ☀️ #NewMexico #NationalPark #archaeology #AncestralPuebloans
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#opcOnThisDay in 2019, I met up with a Twitter friend, @tthrash, who shared my passion for quests—and good craft beer—while we both were in DC on travel. We managed to get #LostNeededDirections many times that day… 🍻
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#opcOnThisDay in 2016, I backpacked a segment of the Arizona Trail with some friends. 🌵 #backpacking #hiking #ArizonaTrail #AZT #Arizona #NationalForest
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#OPCOnThisDay in 2016, @scott and I stopped at the best roadside attraction ever - beer drinking pigs - at the Montpelier Domino Club in #StCroix. Oddest thing I’d ever seen. The pig takes the can in its mouth, opens it, guzzles it, and then spits the beer can back out. Best #lostneededdirections stop ever!
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#OPCOnThisDay in 2016, @scott and I stopped at the best roadside attraction ever - beer drinking pigs - at the Montpelier Domino Club in #StCroix. Oddest thing I’d ever seen. The pig takes the can in its mouth, opens it, guzzles it, and then spits the beer can back out. Best #lostneededdirections stop ever!
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Our friends live near one of the #MLB #CactusLeague ballparks in Scottsdale. So they rent out their home to spring training visitors and camp at a regional park on the outskirts of #Phoenix, showering and commuting into work each day from camp.
Well #opcOnThisDay in 2019, we joined them for a day on Lake Pleasant and an evening hang-out at their campsite. The highlight, besides their company, was this fantastic #sunset.
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I spent #opcOnThisDay in 2012 in Las Cruces #NewMexico advocating for the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, two years and one day prior to its eventually designation. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out—it’s managed by the Bureau of Land Management, not the National Park Service—make sure it’s on your list. ☀︎ #PublicLands #ConservationLands
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It was a busy day #opcOnThisDay in 2016:
↖️ “Summited” Mississippi’s high point. Didn’t even need supplemental oxygen!
↗️ Stopped by the Lorraine Motel
↙️ Also visited a nearby gravesite
↘️ Got #LostNeededDirections and stopped into Rocket Republic Brewing
Other stops that day included the Birthplace of Helen Keller, a drive on Natchez Trace Parkway, and touring a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
#Highpointing #Highpointers #Mississippi #Alabama #RoadTrip #CraftBeer #Memphis #MLK
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It was a busy day #opcOnThisDay in 2016:
↖️ “Summited” Mississippi’s high point. Didn’t even need supplemental oxygen!
↗️ Stopped by the Lorraine Motel
↙️ Also visited a nearby gravesite
↘️ Got #LostNeededDirections and stopped into Rocket Republic Brewing
Other stops that day included the Birthplace of Helen Keller, a drive on Natchez Trace Parkway, and touring a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
#Highpointing #Highpointers #Mississippi #Alabama #RoadTrip #CraftBeer #Memphis #MLK
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It was a busy day #opcOnThisDay in 2016:
↖️ “Summited” Mississippi’s high point. Didn’t even need supplemental oxygen!
↗️ Stopped by the Lorraine Motel
↙️ Also visited a nearby gravesite
↘️ Got #LostNeededDirections and stopped into Rocket Republic Brewing
Other stops that day included the Birthplace of Helen Keller, a drive on Natchez Trace Parkway, and touring a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
#Highpointing #Highpointers #Mississippi #Alabama #RoadTrip #CraftBeer #Memphis #MLK
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We spent #opcOnThisDay in 2017 poking around the southern Utah, from the ruins of Hovenweep to a campsite at Natural Bridges—and finally stopped by this #rockart site in Butler Wash. #petroglyph #utah #bearsears #archaeology
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#opcOnThisDay in 2015, two friends and I spent the day in Oatman along Route 66, dodging burros and rain and making due in kitschy saloons. I had forgotten how scenic the drive was.
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#opcOnThisDay in 2017, I revisited the classic Fremont Saddle (aka Peralta) Trail in the Superstition Wilderness that I loved so much when I first started hiking in high school. ☀︎ #Arizona #Phoenix #hiking #Wilderness #TontoNationalForest