Hiked offtrail to the base of 1,612ft Ribbon Fall today The tallest single-drop waterfall in North America No one out there but me It was a great day! 🏞✨️ #Yosemite

@votemasuda.com YOU ARE THE CHANGE WE ARE SEEKING! Yosemite, we, need you. #Yosemite

In Yosemite they call this magical event "Friday" #Yosemite 🏞✨️

Tunnel View this morning just after sunrise A hint of orange visible on the Quarter Dome area (Between Clouds Rest and Half Dome) 🏞 #Yosemite

Trying to book a campsite at Yosemite *as its released* is insanity. Had something in my cart. 7:00:01 - book Unavailable Something else. Book. Unavailable Something else. Error. The entire campground sold out in <1 second. No exaggeration

Yosemite wasn’t always protected. We the people had to decide it mattered.

Serious Junior Ranger question here... Why does this badge have a buffalo on it? And not a Condor? Pinnacles does not look like this and there are no buffalo. Condors!!!! The largest land bird in North America that has primary habitat inside THIS PARK. Should be on this badge. 🫤 #ParkChat

Saw many condors soaring around High Peaks 3 flew 50ft overhead twice then landed 200ft away & just chilled for a while A park volunteer was up there and had a scope to see up close California Condors have a 9.5ft wingspan In the 80's there was less than 20. Now over 600 because CONSERVATION!

I’m now certified in Basic First Aid, CPR, AED, and Wilderness First Aid. Doing things by the book and putting the right pieces in place as I start something new in 2026. 🏞

Gonna visit Pinnacles National Park this Sunday. Will be down that way for something else, so it's a perfect add-on to do along the way. Visiting West Side and plan to explore Balconies Cave and then hike the High Peaks trail. Neoprene socks + Water shoes + Headlamp + Flashlight ✅ #ParkChat

Magic time ✨ #Yosemite

American Samoa patch added. 63/63 I collect a lot of stuff when I go to parks - but patches are my obsession. This is my show piece. My pride and joy. So many memories in a 2x3' box! 🏞🫶✨️🥹 #NationalParks

Today on the Mist Trail The waterfalls are roaring. It is beautiful but somewhat worrying as they should be flowing less with more water locked up in snow. Big storm coming. Hoping for cold+snow. #Yosemite

New Years Day hike to the brink of Lower Yosemite Falls 🏞🌈✨️ It was cold and misty and the route here is a bit 😬 but totally worth it! #Yosemite #NationalParks #ParkChat #Waterfall #Waterfalls #Rainbow #Hiking

1/1/2026 12:01AM Only one here. #Yosemite

A reflection on a year I never expected.

Hiked offtrail to Sierra Point yesterday. In all my visits, had never been there From Sierra Point 4 major waterfalls are visible. It is a stunning location and incredible viewpoint Still finding new-to-me stuff in Yosemite. Still amazed by Yosemite! 🏞🫶 #Yosemite #NationalParks #Parkchat #Hiking

Sunrise in Yosemite 12/30/25 60 degrees temperature difference from American Samoa just a few days ago. 🥶 🏞 #Yosemite #NationalParks #Parkchat #Nature #Travel #Sunrise #Photography

I finally wrote down what finishing all 63 National Parks actually meant to me. These places changed and shaped who I’ve become along the way. I can’t imagine my life without them.

The final piece to my National Parks corkboard-patch-puzzle! Is it weird that I am excited about this patch? That I am anxious to get home and stick it up on my corkboard? 🤓 #NationalParks #ParkChat

Forever a Junior Ranger 🫡 #NationalParks #ParkChat #AmericanSamoa

1st National Park - Haleakala 3/7/08 63rd National Park - American Samoa 12/23/25 17 years 9 months 16 days 63 National Parks Quest COMPLETE! ✅️ #NationalParks #ParkChat

YOLO! 🌞🏝🌴🥳

Boarding to Pago Pago! American Samoa 🌞🏝🌴✨️✨️ Some other 63 National Parks Questers on the flight came over and talked to me after seeing my hat. We chatted about Gates of the Arctic 🤪 Weeeee!! #NationalParks #ParkChat

Diamond Head summit sunrise So many people it made a busy day at Tunnel View feel empty. At least 300. As the sunrise passed fresh hords moved thru. Still enjoyed it fully. Just pointing out how popular this spot is for sunrise. Never seen so many ppl at 630am! 🌅✨️ #Sunrise #Photography #Parkchat

#Sunset 🌅

The room isnt much bigger than the van... but *this* is the view! Waikiki 🌴🌞

*IT* ... is so close now I can see the finish line. Yet it is still so far away! National Parks adventure mode = activated! #63 here I come! ✨️✨️✨️

#Yosemite 🫶

A 17 year journey will conclude next week. mountainscalling.me/on-the-edge-...

Around midnight, a moose floated down this river. It was one of the strangest things I have ever seen while sitting, parked in my van. 🌈🏔️🫎

I wrote something difficult. It stands on its own. mountainscalling.me/october-1st-...

555ft tall. Capped with a 100oz aluminum pyramid 40 years to construct. Built over 2 distinct periods the stone changes color 150ft up It was the tallest structure in the world when it was completed in 1884 No building in DC is allowed to exceed it in height #NationalParks #Photography #Parkchat

More goodies from my DC trip. Junior Ranger 4Life 🫡🏞🫶 #NationalParks #ParkChat #JuniorRanger #JrRanger #NationalParkService

Whatever you are, be a good one. ~Lincoln #NationalParks

Great Falls Park - part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway - is a National Park Service unit in the DC area. Whitewater kayakers were going over the classV rapids on the left while I was there. 🛶 #NationalParks #Parkchat

Harpers Ferry from above 🖼 📸 Maryland Heights #Nationalparks #Photography #Hiking #Parkchat

Yosemite. Mariposa Grove The first public land ever protected Today I saw with my own eyes and held in my own hands - the original 1864 bill that created Yosemite Everything we love about our parks traces back to this! #Yosemite #NationalParks #Parkchat #PublicLands

In 1864, leaders in this building dared to protect Yosemite forever. Their spark became our National Parks — and that promise lives only if we fight to keep it alive. 🏞 #Yosemite #NationalParks #PublicLands #ParkChat

Junior Ranger Eric - reporting for duty 🫡 #NationalParks #JuniorRanger #ParkChat

#ParkChat at Harpers Ferry NHP @camarowrx.bsky.social @mountainscalling.me #NationalParks

LAS -> IAD -> CAT 🐈🛫

Have u watched Ken Burns: America's Best Idea so many times that u can identify songs from the series? I would not have even been standing there at the moment if not for that series! It was incredible 🥹 Love Yosemite! Love National Parks! @kenlburns.bsky.social #Yosemite #NationalParks #Parkchat

North Dome, 7,542 feet. The soaring lower buttress below it? Unnamed, but unforgettable. 🏞 #Yosemite #Photography #NationalParks #Parkchat

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains. ~Muir #Yosemite #Photography #NationalParks #Parkchat #Sunrise

Another Yosemite trip in the books. 🏞 Grateful for the people who make these moments feel even bigger. 👫👧🐶🫶 Until next time. 👋 #Yosemite #NationalParks #ParkChat

Family time under a 3,000-ft granite reminder of what really matters. 🏞❤️ #Yosemite #NationalParks #Parkchat

Kali & Eric, The Corps of Discovery The real joy of life is found in moments like this: Yosemite glowing at sunset and Kali leaning into my arms like she belongs here too. 🐶🐕🐾🏞🫶 #Yosemite #Dog #NationalParks

Starlight born before I existed, reflected off a silent lake then captured in my camera. When we look at the stars we are in-effect traveling back in time. 🌌🌠✨️✨️✨️ #Yosemite #Photography #Nature #NationalParks #Astro #AstroPhotography #NightSky #MilkyWay #Stars #PublicLands #Parkchat

Let this valley hush the noise of the world. 🖼💛🧡💚💙🫶 #Yosemite #NationalParks #Photography #Nature #Parkchat #Travel #PublicLands #Autumn #Reflection