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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 11/06/2026
Late March in Andalusia: trains through Córdoba and Granada, then a rental car to the white villages of Grazalema. Also: griffon vultures, mud rain, and ibex. www.shoulderseason.net/2026/06/10/a...
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Andalusia in March: Planning a Spring Break - Shoulder Season
A practical Andalusia travel guide: planning tips, Málaga hub, visits to Córdoba and Granada, and exploring Zahara, Grazalema, and scenic hikes.
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 07/05/2026
New post: Backpacking Blackjack Ridge and Cradle Lake in Washington's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest last July.
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Backpacking Blackjack Ridge and Cradle Lake - Shoulder Season
Three days in the central Cascades: Blackjack Ridge, Highchair Mountain, and Cradle Lake, with hard-won notes on a route where the maps don't agree.
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 30/04/2026
This past January, we spent a 3-day weekend hiking it Death Valley National Park. It was perfect hiking weather, with many excellent sunrises and sunsets.
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Death Valley in January: A 3-Day Weekend of Hiking - Shoulder Season
January is one of the best times to visit Death Valley. Here's how we filled three days with sunrise hikes, desert peaks, and unexpected water in the driest place in North America.
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 20/04/2026
Just posted: our August and September hike of the Tour of the Écrins (GR54) - www.shoulderseason.net/2026/04/19/t...
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Tour of the Écrins (GR54) Overview & Planning - Shoulder Season
One of the finest hut-to-hut routes in the Alps: our 12-day GR54 traverse through Écrins National Park, with planning notes, refuge recommendations, and itinerary details.
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Washington Trails Association @washingtontrails.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The #Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently released the text of a spending bill that would mandate the sale of up to 3.2 million acres of national #publiclands. If this bill becomes law, national public lands would be sold in 11 western states, including #Washington.
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Use your voice: Our national public lands are not for sale
This year, leaders across the federal government have proposed selling our national public lands — to give them away for development, open them to resource extraction or use them to generate revenue. ...
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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 04/06/2025
The Trump Administration is killing investments in U.S. competitiveness, good jobs & cleaner air to support tax cuts & line the pockets of billionaires.
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DOE Cancels $3.7B in Clean Energy Projects Through Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
Project cuts include funding for carbon capture, low-carbon cement
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 22/05/2025
Ten years ago today, we were in Scotland - our first international trip together.
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A Circuit of Scotland: Planning the Trip | Shoulder Season
An outdoors-foucsed thirteen-day circuit of Scotland, including Edinburgh, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs, Oban, Fort William, Skye, and Inverness, in May.
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Washington Trails Association @washingtontrails.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
WTA's policy and planning manager Michael DeCramer has traded out his hiking boots for a suit and traveled to Washington, D.C. on behalf of the thousands of hikers who've called for last week's mass firings of #ForestService and #NationalParkService firings to be reversed. Learn how you can help 🌲
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WTA visits D.C. to urge rehiring of Forest and Park service staff
This week, WTA’s policy and planning manager Michael DeCramer is in Washington, D.C. Along with partners, one of the key issues Michael will be discussing is the recent firing of thousands of U.S. For...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 25/02/2025
Trump's attacks on the National Park Service—including firing 1000 National Park Service workers—will only bring chaos and confusion to our parks and their millions of visitors. National parks preserve our country’s nature, heritage, and history. We must save them, not sabotage them.
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 29/11/2024
Finally sharing notes on our 10-day hike around the Bernina Massif in the Alps of Switzerland and Italy in 2021! www.shoulderseason.net/2024/11/28/t...
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Tour of the Bernina - Shoulder Season
Overview of our 10-day Tour of the Bernina, with adaptations to spend more time at mountain huts overlooking glaciers.
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