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About Shawn

Hello! I’m Shawn, and I have a background in park management and conservation. I love traveling, and during my trips, I often discover efforts to protect the natural areas that make these places so wonderful and beautiful. I’m sharing these here.

My Completed Walk List. It’s like a Birder List…But Less Passionate.

  • Mt. Pico, Azores

  • Laurisilva Forest & Levadas, Madeira Island

  • Tarkine and Overland Track, Tasmania

  • Lofoten Islands, Norway

  • Lake Atitlan, La Ruta Maya, Guatemala

  • Kalalau Trail, Kauai

  • Mt. Whitney, California

  • John Muir Trail, California

  • Annapurna Circuit, Nepal

  • Colorado River by dory through Grand Canyon, and walking South Rim to North Rim

  • Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

  • Supai Village, Havasu Falls, Grand Canyon

  • Ancient Bristle Cone Pine Forest, California

  • Fairyland Loop Bryce Canyon, Utah

  • Backbone Trail Santa Monica Mountains, California

  • The Lycian Way, Turkiye

  • Channel Islands, National Park

  • Bahia, Salvador & Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Costa Rica Rainforests

  • Milford Track, New Zealand

  • Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

  • Dry Tortugas National Park & Ancient Forests of the Everglades, Florida

  • The Narrows, Zion

  • Keet Seel Ruins, Navajo National Monument

  • Jordan Trail, Dana to Petra

  • Isle of Skye, Scotland

  • Rogue River Wild & Scenic Trail, Oregon

  • Mt. Toubkal, Morocco

  • Okavango Delta & Chobe safari walks, Botswana

  • Plitvice, Croatia

  • Danum Valley Rainforest, Borneo

  • Gunung Lesser National Park Rainforest, Sumatra

  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Glacier Bay National Park, Denali National Park along the Alaska Highway

  • Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda (Gorilla Trekking)

  • Maroon Bells, Colorado

  • Mt. Meru, Mt. Kenya, Katavi, Mt. Kilimanjaro, East Africa

  • Tour du Mont Blanc, France, Italy, Switzerland

  • Patagonia W Trail, Chile

  • Pingvellir, Gullfoss, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland

  • West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island

  • Picos de Europa, Spain

  • Sedona, Arizona…all the trails!

  • Banff & Jasper, Canada

  • The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Vermillion Cliffs

  • Upper Antelope Slot Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

  • Nyungwe Forest National Park, Cyamundongo, Rwanda

Upcoming:

  • Great Bear Rainforest

  • Simien Mountains

  • Reunion Islands

  • Madagascar

  • Baffin Islands

  • Amazon

  • Pantanal

  • Iguazu Falls

  • Japan's Mt. Fuji, Wayfarers Trail, Kumano Kodo & Yakushima Forest