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A backpacker on the Wonderland Trail in Mount Rainier National Park.

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Backpackers west of Sunrise on the Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park

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Backpackers at night with headlamps in a campsite in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park.

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