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LakeClarkNPS
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Q6: Alders, willows, bogs, glaciers, scree…What’s the gnarliest, most epic terrain you’ve experienced while backpacking in a National Park? #ParkChat

LakeClarkNPS
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A6: At Lake Clark, you can find various types of epic terrain…Scree slopes, muddy bogs, tussocks, tundra, dense brush, fast and cold glacial waterways, exposed coastlines, glaciers, wet mudflats. It’s good to fly over your planned route before you land. #ParkChat

ParksandPoints
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A6) Actually, #hiking on semi-melted snow fields in @GlacierNPS was pretty gnarly. Wet, compacted, icy and yet still snowy, though occasionally muddy. #parkchat.

thc1972
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RT @LakeClarkNPS: A6: At Lake Clark, you can find various types of epic terrain…Scree slopes, muddy bogs, tussocks, tundra, dense brush, f…

clsmithAK
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RT @LakeClarkNPS: A6: At Lake Clark, you can find various types of epic terrain…Scree slopes, muddy bogs, tussocks, tundra, dense brush, f…

DryTortugasFilm
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6. Got to be the lava field in @Volcanoes_NPS when I got turned around at night, there are cracks deeper than I'd like to think about that are well hidden and the Lava is quite jagged in some places. #Parkchat

Wild_Tribute
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A6. Creek crossings! #parkchat

naturetechfam
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS #parkchat A6 Mud! We didn't do our homework before hitting the Mary Mtn trail @YellowstoneNPS in early June. Ugh. We only got about 1.5 miles in and had to go back! Springs and runoff made for deep mud. 🙄 #liveandlearn

t_jh2009
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6) It has to be the unforgiving granite of the Sierra-Nevada Mountains, it'll eat away at your boots, tear you up when you fall and makes setting up a tent nearly impossible. #ParkChat

unconpeace
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A6 Time for one of my recurring answers - the Devil's Path! In the beloved Catskills, clambering over boulders and shimmying up rock faces #parkchat

Fiwaysandbyways
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6) Mud. Lots of it! #parkchat

billbrokob
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6: Has to be the mud in Zion #parkchat

RCGibby73
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6: Definitely the granite and rock of Rocky NPS. It lives up to its name for sure #ParkChat

louisbink
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6 High above the glacier @WrangellStENPS hiking in an August sleet storm on incredibly steep and slippery trails of rocky scree - ugh! #ParkChat

Parkasaur
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6. The gnarliest terrain I've encountered on a hike would have to be the rock scramble on the Old Rag Trail @ShenandoahNPS #ParkChat

this_is_karley
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS @Wild_Tribute A6: my stash of snacks. 😋 hah, no. i make sure i ALWAYS carry my BEAR SPRAY, wherever i go. i never hike without it, and you shouldn't, either!

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this_is_karley
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS @Wild_Tribute A6: scree has always been my natural enemy......but now that i've experienced hiking on pure ice, i can say it's a tie.

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e_terren
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6. Talus slopes, a pain for anyone with arthritis. I've had close, brief looks at lava in Lava Beds National Monument. Lava looks like it might finish off a pair of hiking boots. #parkchat

NakMakFeegle
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replying to @LakeClarkNPS @LakeClarkNPS A6 on the @OlympicNP coast I saw a waterfall, not too far up a little stream valley. It was winter, pouring down rain, but it was just too tempting! After spending over an hour of fighting my way through 300 feet of soaking 8 foot tall brush I snappped this shot. #parkchat