Colleen Drake, AKA Teacup

Washakie Pass, Wind River Mountains 
Washakie Pass, Wind River Mountains 


Olympic Mountains 
Wind River Mountains
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I Saw That!
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is burning with it. Claude Monet When I find myself feeling sad about my decision to give up backpacking in order to save my aching back from further injury, I…
The View from My Chair
Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest Happiness knowledge not in an other place but this place, not for another hour but this hour. Walt Whitman…
Mountains and More Mountains
O’Neil’s conclusions were the same as those of the Press party. There were (sic) no great central valley, no prairies in the interior, no lost Indian tribes. There were only mountains and more mountains in every direction. . .adding that it was so mountainous as to be of little use “except perhaps,’ he wrote, “as…
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