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		<title>Guadalupe Mountains Photo Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drive along the “National Park Highway” (U.S. Hwy 62/180) and you cannot miss the 8,000-foot peaks of the Capitan Reef.&#160; This looks like a mountain range, but it’s really a giant reef with one of the largest cave networks on Earth.&#160; Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas contains 86,416 acres along the southern, highest part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guadalupe Peak &#8211; Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guadalupe Peak (8,749’) is the highest peak in Texas and is visible for miles.&#160; On the far left is El Capitan, the southernmost bluff of the Guadalupe Range.&#160; It has served as a landmark for weary desert travellers for centuries. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Guadalupe Peak Trail is an 8.4 mile long, 3,000-foot elevation gain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guadalupe Peak &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were all alone for a half hour at this amazing lunch spot near Guadalupe Peak. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; El Capitan is a limestone peak that juts out the southern end of the Guadalupe Mountains.&#160; “El Capitan is guarded by cliffs on three sides, and those faces are rarely climbed due to the unstable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tejas Trail in Dog Canyon &#8211; Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dog Canyon lies in a forested canyon on the north end of Guadalupe Mountains National Park at an elevation of 6,300 feet.&#160; It’s about a 2-hour out-of-the-way drive from the main park entrance and hence is quite secluded. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Remote and far removed from civilization, Dog Canyon “stands at the edge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKittrick Canyon &#8211; Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKittrick Canyon was named for Captain Felix McKittrick, a rancher and one of the early white settlers who lived at the mouth of the canyon in 1869. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; A year-round stream, with its bubbling sounds and lush landscape, provides a nice companion on our hike up the canyon. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKittrick Canyon &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Theresa is enjoying lunch at “The Notch,” a slot in the rock at an altitude of around 7,200 feet with a spectacular view of McKittrick Canyon, through which we just hiked and will hike again on our return trail. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Fall colors on the canyon floor are blazing red, orange and yellow. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nat-park.com/mckittrick-canyon-part-2-guadalupe-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Carlsbad Caverns Photo Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carlsbad Caverns isn’t the longest cave in the world, or the largest, or the deepest.&#160; But it’s arguably one of the most spectacular caves ever discovered.&#160; The otherworldly sights include millions of delicate features as shown in this photo, dozens of dinosaur-size monuments, and a massive room larger than a sports stadium.&#160; These priceless treasures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nat-park.com/carlsbad-caverns-photo-tour/</link>
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		<title>Natural Entrance &#8211; Carlsbad Caverns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best place to start your tour of Carlsbad Caverns is at the Natural Entrance.&#160; This large opening formed when part of the cave’s ceiling collapsed thousands of years ago.&#160; In the late 1800s, cowboys discovered the cave when they noticed billowing clouds of black smoke emerging from the ground.&#160; Upon closer inspection, the cowboys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nat-park.com/natural-entrance-carlsbad-caverns/</link>
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		<title>Big Room &#8211; Carlsbad Caverns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns is truly big: a 250-foot high ceiling covers a massive 8.2-acre room that could hold six football fields.&#160; This chamber contains dozens of giant speleothems (cave formations) up to 6 stories tall, as well as millions of elegant tiny formations. Unlike most tourist caves, Carlsbad Caverns only uses white [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nat-park.com/big-room-carlsbad-caverns/</link>
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		<title>Bats &#8211; Carlsbad Caverns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every evening in summer and early fall, a half million Mexican free-tail bats exit Carlsbad Caverns in a black wave in their daily search for insects. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The nightly bat flight was discovered in the late 1800s by local cowboys who noticed “smoke” coming out of a cave.&#160; Jim White is credited [...]]]></description>
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