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    Lee Rentz Photography Weblog

    A weblog of the travels and adventures of photographer Lee Rentz

    Lee Rentz Photography Weblog

    DEEP INSIDE A GLACIER

    Exploring the interior of an Icelandic glacier with a small group tour.

     Category: Adventure, Challenges, geology, Glaciers, Iceland, photography, tourism, travel      Tags: adventure, adventure tourism, blue, blue ice, cold, color, colors, colour, crevasse, entrance, experience, F-Road, frigid, geologic, geology, glacial, glacier, green, guide, guided, hole, ice, ice cap, ice cave, ice caving, Iceland, icy, interior, Katlatrack Adventure Tours, Kötlujökull glacier, landscape, lee rentz, leerentz.com, march, Mýrdalsjökull, melted, melting, moulin, Myrdalsjokull Glacier, nature, opening, patterns, patterns in nature, photo, photography, reflecting, Ring Road, Route 1, snow, Super Jeep, tour, tourists, travel, vertical, water, well-like

    APPALACHIAN TRAIL MEMOIR

    In 1970 I hiked the Appalachian Trail through Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a college friend. The trail was filled with adventures that I look back on with nostalgia.

     Category: Adventure, hiking, lee rentz, national parks, nature, outdoor, photography, recreation, travel, wildlife      Tags: 1970, adventure, Appalachia, Appalachian Trail, backpacking, bear, black bear, bus ride, camping, Dowell Jennings Howard III, encounters, forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, hike, hiker, hikers, hiking, landscape, LeConte Trail Shelter, memories, memory, Mount LeConte, mountains, nature, nostalgia, park, path, pathway, remembrance, Silers Bald, Smoky Mountains, trail, trail shelter, tube tent

    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...

     Category: Adventure, conservation, fish, lee rentz, night, photography, tourism, travel, weather      Tags: adventure, Atlantic Ocean, canada, coast, coastal, color, colorful, colour, February, ferry, fishery, fishing, fishing village, fjord, Francois, fun, Grey River, isolated, Lee Rentz photo, Lee Rentz Photography, Marine Voyager, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, north america, outport, outports, remote, settlement, snow, snowstorm, snowy, tourism, tourist, town, trip, voyage, winter

    SHI SHI BEACH AND POINT OF ARCHES ON A SUMMER WEEKEND

    We hiked to Shi Shi Beach and Point of Arches in Olympic National Park during the lowest tides of the year so we could explore the most distant tide pools. This...

     Category: Adventure, environment, hiking, landscape, lee rentz, national parks, nature, olympic peninsula, outdoor, photography, recreation, travel, washington, wildlife      Tags: backpacker, backpacking, beach, behavior, birding, birds, Black Oystercatcher, campers, camping, fun, hikers, hiking, Makah Nation, Makah Tribe, millenials, national park service, nature, Neah Bay, north america, olympic national park, olympic peninsula, Olympics, outdoors, pacific ocean, point of arches, recreation, River Otters, rocky, sand, sandy, sea stacks, seashore, seastacks, shi shi beach, shore, starfish, travel, wild, wilderness, wildlife

    OUR FIRST VISITS TO POINT OF ARCHES: Looking Back to the Winter of 1991

    There are places where experiences are so profound that they draw you back time after time. Olympic National Park's Shi Shi Beach and Point of Arches is such a place for...

     Category: Adventure, birding, conservation, environment, hiking, landscape, lee rentz, national parks, nature, olympic peninsula, outdoor, photography, recreation, travel, washington, wildlife      Tags: america, animals, backpacking, beach, coast, coastal, hike, hiking, landscape, Makah Reservation, Makah Tribe, nature, Neah Bay, north america, ocean, Olympic Coast, olympic national park, olympic peninsula, pacific northwest, pacific ocean, photography, point of arches, sandy, sea, sea stacks, seastacks, shi shi beach, shore, the olympics, tide pools, tidepools, travel, usa, waves, wild, wilderness, wildlife, winter

    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

    THE WAR ON OUR FEDERAL LANDS

    President Obama had a long process of consideration and public meetings and cooperation with five Indian tribes in creating Bear’s Ears National Monument. Trump and his henchman, Secretary of the Interior...

     Category: Adventure, conservation, environment, landscape, lee rentz, national monument, nature, outdoor, photography, recreation, tourism, travel      Tags: america, American West, archaeological, archaeology, Bears Ears, Bears Ears National Monument, blm, bureau of land management, Canyonlands National Park, controvery, corral, Edward Abbey, environment, Hayduke, Hayduke Lives!, Indian Creek, Indian Creek National Monument, Jennifer Speers, landscape, Moab, Monticello, national monument, nature, Needles District, Newspaper Rock, old west, petroglyphs, preservation, President Obama, Ryan Zinke, scenic, SR 211, State of Utah, states rights, trump, utah, Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act, vast, west, western, wild

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