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Maybe we go on pilgrimage to feel awe before the sublime and take a picture of it with us in it

trussed timber latticework funnel-shaped structure
Galaxia, Burning Man Temple 2018
large bison on road, herd behind on grass

American Bison

Custer State Park, South Dakota

beige brown red badlands eroded into melted wax shapes

Zabriskie Point

View across Death Valley to the Panamint Range, California

inland dunefield miles wide up to 750' tall

Tallest Sand Dunes in North America

People climbing the dunes at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado

cloud shadows in sunny canyon tracking Colorado River east

Snow on the South Rim

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

large sculpture of tree spirit rising from fallen robot

Playa Art in the Ephemerald City

Pachamama by Juan Manuel Ramal. Juan’s Instagram. Black Rock City 2018, Nevada

yellow purple beige badlands with grass near sunset

Yellow Mounds Overlook

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

grassy dune beach sunset behind huge rock columns in the breakers

Sea stacks on the Oregon Coast

Pistol River State Scenic Viewpoint

red pictographs of twenty eyeless or huge-eyed limbless floating humans

Thousands of Years of Rock Art

Sego Canyon, Utah

ranger-led tour of stonemasonry village built into alcove

800-year-old Cliff Dwelling

The Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

two coastal redwood trunks in Stout Memorial Grove

Tallest trees on earth

Coastal Redwoods in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, northern California coast

people gazing up a tree 40 times wider than them

Largest trees on earth, by volume

Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park, mountains of eastern California

tree covered with ferns and draped in moss strands

So what

Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington

But pilgrimage is the story

road bend along edge of Mogollon Rim Road
loaded pack mule train climbing Grand Canyon trail
supply raft preparation at Lees Ferry
hikers descending stairs in Grand Canyon
Rainy sunset at Curlew National Grassland, Idaho