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Exploring the stunning formations of WHITE POCKET

Twisting and swirling, the red rock follows the random paths of a wild dream, then skirts a dome of white Navajo Sandstone cracked into nearly perfect polygonal plates, enchanting under a...

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ADVENTURING TO A NEWFOUNDLAND OUTPORT

Examining a map of Newfoundland, I noticed some dashed lines curving out over the Atlantic Ocean and paralleling the coast. One of these lines led out from the remote port of...

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SILENCE OF THE CANYON

Canyonlands National Park's Salt Creek Canyon was a quiet place during our four day backpacking trip. In fact, we didn't see anyone for 2 1/2 days during the hike, making it...

Category: Adventure, autumn, conservation, hiking, landscape, lee rentz, national parks, night, outdoor, photo, photography, recreation, travel Tags: All American Man, Anasazi, Ancestral Puebloan People, autumn, backpack, backpacking, camping, Canyonlands, Canyonlands National Park, cliff dwellings, desert, fall, hike, hiking, landscape, lee rentz, mano and matate, Milky Way, national park, nature, Needles District, night, October, park, photography, pictograph, pictographs, potsherds, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Canyon, southwest, stars, The Needles, trip, utah, wild

SPOOKY REST AREAS LATE AT NIGHT

Rest areas along America's highways can be lonely and potentially dangerous places.

Category: night, photography, road trip, travel Tags: alone, aloneness, america, bad, danger, dangerous, darkness, desolate, evening, fog, foggy, forsaken, freeway, hazardous, highway, interstate, isolated, lights, lurking, mood, night, on the road, quiet, remote, rest area, risky, road, road trip, safety, safety rest area, sinister, solitary, spooky, stopping, stormy, strange, strangeness, threatening, travel, traveling, travelling, unsafe, wierd

MY LAST HIKE IN THE ENCHANTMENTS

An account of an early October trip to Horseshoe Lake in The Enchantments, one of the most sublime experiences we have ever enjoyed, with its stunning mountains, Alpine Larches in rich...

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WITNESS TO CREATION: When Lava Battles the Sea

Our first trip to the Big Island of Hawaii in May 2013 coincided with the awakening of Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire. She was sending small rivers of lava down...

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ON THE WING: Rediscovering the Magic of Flight

Rediscovering the magic of flight by looking out the window of a long flight from Detroit to Seattle, despite the trials and tribulations of modern aviation.

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Lee Rentz Photography Weblog

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