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Our National Parks in the Quiet of the Pandemic

While everybody else seemed to be making sourdough bread, 70-year-old photographer Andy Katz hit the road to capture “America’s greatest idea” in a new light. The post Our National Parks in the Quiet of the Pandemic appeared first on Nautilus.

n my first hike through Olympic National Park one evening this past summer, I was so overwhelmed by the primordial textures and deafening hush that I had the urge to lie down on the trail just to collect myself. It was dusk in northwestern Washington State, and the light was blue and shadowy as I crept up an entirely empty path through the rainforest. The moss covering every branch and

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