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These photos are the winners of Matt's Photo of the Day contest. In some cases the judge (Matt) could not determine a clear winner, so there are 2 or 3 Photos of the Day. The order of the photos here corresponds to the order of the emails in the book.

#1 North Cascades National Park June 4, 2010. View from Stehekin.
#1 North Cascades National Park June 5, 2010. The Stehekin River from the Harlequin Bridge.
#1 North Cascades National Park June 6, 2010. A wood sign on the side of the Stehekin Landing Resort.
#2 Olympic National Park June 23, 2010. A marmot on Hurricane Hill
#2 Olympic National Park June 23, 2010. Our cabin at Lake Crescent Lodge. The only one that doesn't face the lake.
#2 Olympic National Park June 24, 2010. Rialto Beach, Hole-In-the-Wall.
#3 Mt. Rainier National Park June 29, 2010. Grove of Patriarchs Trail.
#3 Mt. Rainier National Park June 30, 2010. Wonderland Trail.
#4 Cuyahoga Valley National Park July 6, 2010. Brandywine Falls
#5 Rocky Mountain National Park July 22, 2010. Lone Pine Lake Trail
#6 Black Canyon of the Gunnison N.P. July 24, 2010.
#7 Mesa Verde National Park July 26, 2010. Cliff Palace.
#7 Mesa Verde National Park July 27, 2010. Long House.
#8 Great Sand Dunes National Park July 28, 2010.
#9 Petrified Forest National Park August 11, 2010. Blue Mesa Loop Trail.
#9 Petrified Forest National Park August 11, 2010. Giant Logs Trail.
#10 Grand Canyon National Park August 12, 2010. Bright Angel Trail.
#11 Glacier Bay National Park August 19, 2010. John Hopkins Glacier.
#11 Glacier Bay National Park August 20, 2010. Mother Moose and her calf.
#12 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park August 23, 2010. Kennecott.
#12 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Aug. 23, 2010. People walking on Root Glacier.
#13 Denali National Park Aug. 24, 2010.
#13 Denali National Park August 25, 2010
#14 Kenai Fjords National Park August 27, 2010. Boat tour.
#15 Crater Lake National Park September 6, 2010.
#16 Redwood National Park Sept. 7, 2010. Hiking Prairie Creek.
#17 Lassen Volcanic National Park Sept. 9, 2010. Bumpass Hell Trail.
#18 Yosemite National Park Sept. 11, 2010. Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp hike.
#18 Yosemite National Park Sept. 12, 2011. Taft Point.
#18 Yosemite National Park Sept. 13, 2010. Mist Trail to Vernal Falls.
#18 Yosemite National Park Sept. 13, 2010. The Ahwahnee Hotel
#19 Kings Canyon National Park Sept. 14, 2010.
#20 Sequoia National Park Sept. 15, 2010. The Congress Trail.
#21 Death Valley National Park September 16, 2010.
#22 Zion National Park Sept. 17, 2010.
#22 Zion National Park Sept. 18, 2010. The Narrows hike.
#22 Zion National Park Sept. 18, 2010. The Narrows hike.
#23 Bryce Canyon National Park Sept. 19, 2010. The Amphitheater.
#23 Bryce Canyon National Park Sept. 20, 2010. Hiking up Wall Street.
#24 Capitol Reef National Park Sept. 20, 2010. Picking apples with deer in the Fruita Historic District.
#24 Capitol Reed National Park Sept. 21, 2010. Hickman Bridge.
#25 Arches National Park Sept. 22, 2010. Delicate Arch.
#26 Canyonlands National Park Sept. 23, 2010
#25 Arches National Park Sept. 24, 2010. Devil's Garden hike.
#25 Arches National Park Sept. 25, 2010. Fiery Furnace hike- Turtle Arch.
#27 Great Basin National Park Sept. 26, 2010. Bristlecone Pine.
#27 Great Basin National Park Sept. 26, 2010. Rock Glacier
Bar Harbor, Maine October 11, 2010
#28 Acadia National Park October 12, 2010. Top of Cadillac Mountain.
#28 Acadia National Park Oct. 12, 2010. The carriage roads.
#29 Shenandoah National Park Oct. 17, 2010. Overall Run Falls Overlook.
#29 Shenandoah National Park Oct. 18, 2010. Rose River Loop Hike.
#29 Shenandoah National Park Oct.18, 2010. The Brown House.
#30 Guadalupe Mountains N.P. Oct. 27, 2010. McKittrick Canyon
#31 Carlsbad Caverns National Park Oct. 28, 2010. King's Palace
#31 Carlsbad Caverns National Park Oct. 28, 2010. Natural Entrance
#32 Big Bend National Park Oct. 29, 2010. Boquillas Canyon and the Rio Grande.
#32 Big Bend National Park Oct. 29, 2010. Grapevine Hill Trail
#32 Big Bend National Park Oct. 30, 2010. The window on the Window Trail- 200' pour-off.
#32 Big Bend National Park Oct. 31, 2010. Santa Elena Canyon.
#33 Virgin Islands National Park Nov. 10, 2010. This is what happens when you try to save a few bucks and visit during hurricane season.
#33 Virgin Islands National Park Nov. 10, 2010. The Visitor Center in Cruz Bay.
#33 Virgin Islands National Park Nov. 11, 2010. Caneel Bay beach.
#33 Virgin Islands National Pak Nov. 11, 2010. The large iguana I ran into on a Painkiller run.
#35 Everglades National Park Nov. 13, 2010. Alligators on the Anhinga Trail.
#34 Biscayne National Park Nov. 13, 2010. Boca Chia Lighthouse.
#36 Dry Tortugas National Park Nov. 15, 2010. Ft. Jefferson.
#36 Dry Tortugas National Park Nov. 15, 2010. Ft. Jefferson has over 2,000 arches.
#35 Everglades National Park Nov. 16, 2010. Making friends on our Shark Valley bike ride.
#37 National Park of American Samoa Dec. 3, 2010. View of Pola Island from Craggy Point.
#37 National Park of American Samoa Dec. 4, 2010. At the top of Mt. Alava Trail.
#37 National Park of American Samoa. Dec. 4, 2010. A banana tree.
#37 National Park of American Samoa Dec. 4, 2010. Driving the coastal road around the island.
#37 National Park of American Samoa Dec. 5, 2010. Tisa's Barefoot Bar.
#38 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Dec. 7, 2010. Kilauea Iki Trail.
#38 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Dec. 7, 2010. Pu'u Loa petroglyphs.
#39 Haleakala National Park Dec. 8, 2010. Sliding Sands Trail.
#40 Saguaro National Park Jan. 19, 2011. Javelina crossing the road.
#40 Saguaro National Park Jan. 19, 2011. Rincon Mountain District.
#40 Saguaro National Park Jan. 20, 2011. Tucson Mountain District.
#41 Joshua Tree National Park Jan. 24, 2011. Lost Horse Mine Trail.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb.6, 2011. Mammoth Hot Springs, Upper Terraces.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb. 7, 2011. Karen ready to get on her snowmobile outside the warming hut.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb. 7, 2011. Bison always have the right of way.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb. 7, 2011. Gibbon Falls.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb. 7, 2011. Lunch break- on the boardwalks around Old Faithful.
#42 Yellowstone National Pak Feb. 8, 2011. Traffic jam.
#42 Yellowstone National Park Feb. 8, 2011. Snowshoeing.
#43 Grand Teton National Park Feb. 11, 2011.
#44 Wind Cave National Park April 24, 2011
#45 Badlands National Park April 25, 2011.
#46 Theodore Roosevelt N.P. April 26, 2011. The money shot.
#46 Theodore Roosevelt N.P. April 27, 2011. Wild horses on the Upper Talkington Trail.
#47 Congaree National Park June 19, 2011. Karen pretending to paddle on Cedar Creek.
#47 Congaree National Park June 19, 2011.
#48 Great Smoky Mountains N.P. June 20, 2011. Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
#48 Great Smoky Mountains N.P. June 21, 2011. Alum Cave Trail.
#49 Mammoth Cave National Park June 22, 2011. All our other photos were so dark it looked like we were in a cave. 😑
#13 Denali revisited July 6, 2011. Hiking in Denali.
#13 Denali revisited July 6, 2011. Karen avoiding the camera, wearing her mosquito headnet.
#50 Katmai National Park July 7, 2011. Bears fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls.
#50 Katmai National Park July 7, 2011. Karen leaving the Falls Platform.
#50 Katmai National Park July 8, 2011. Standing behind the park ranger as a mother and her cubs pass by.
#50 Katmai National Park July 8th, 2011. Last photo of the bear on the beach just as he turned and started chasing us.
#50 Katmai National Park July 8, 2011. Waiting to board our float plane back to King Salmon.
#51 Lake Clark National Park July 9, 2011. Dick Proenneke's cabin.
#51 Lake Clark National Park July 9, 2011.
#51 Lake Clark National Park July 9, 2011. Karen checking out Dick's meat cache where he kept his meat safe from bears.
#51 Lake Clark National Park July 9, 2011. The inside of Dick's cabin.
#51 Lake Clark National Park July 9, 2011. Twin Lakes
Anchorage: the tail of our plane July 10, 2011. Holy Crap!
#52 Isle Royale National Park August 22, 2011. The Voyageur II.
#52 Isle Royale National Park Aug. 23, 2011. Mt. Franklin hike.
#52 Isle Royale National Park Aug. 24, 2011.
#52 Isle Royale National Park Aug. 25, 2011. Heading back to Grand Portage, MN.
#53 Voyageurs National Park Aug. 26, 2011. Boat tour.
#54 Glacier National Park Sept. 1, 2011. Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier Park.
#54 Glacier National Park Sept. 2, 2011. The Many Glacier Hotel.
#54 Glacier National Park Sept. 2, 2011. The Grinnell Glacier hike.
#54 Glacier National Park Sept. 2, 2011. Bighorn sheep on the trail.
#19 Kings Canyon revisited Sept. 26, 2011. View of Kings Canyon from the Cedar Grove Overlook.
#19 Kings Canyon revisited Sept. 26, 2011
#55 Channel Islands National Park Sept. 27, 2011. Smuggler's Cove.
#55 Channel Island National Park Sept. 27, 2011.
#56 Hot Springs National Park Oct. 24, 2011. Hoping for a spa treatment in the Fordyce Bath House, which closed in 1962. It opened as the park's visitor center and museum in 1989.
#21 Death Valley revisited Jan. 13, 2012. Titus Canyon
#21 Death Valley revisited Jan. 13, 2012. Karen hiking up the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes.
#21 Death Valley revisited Jan. 14, 2012. The moving rocks on The Racetrack.
#43 Grand Teton revisited May 27, 2012. This guy seems as annoyed as we were about the snow on Memorial Day weekend.
#43 Grand Teton revisited May 27, 2012. Colter Bay Village cabin. Smith Lake when we arrived.
#43 Grand Teton revisited May 28, 2012. Smith Lake after Matt cleared the drain with his hammer.
#43 Grand Teton revisited May 28, 2012. Jenny Lake Trail hike. Karen has her bear spray ready.
#43 Grand Teton Revisited May 28, 2012.
#10 Grand Canyon revisited June 7, 2012. Selfie at the top of Bright Angel Trail- 5:45 a.m.
#10 Grand Canyon Revisited June 7, 2012. The Silver Bridge over the Colorado River.
#10 Grand Canyon Revisited June 7, 2012. Our cabin at Phantom Ranch.
#10 Grand Canyon Revisited June 7, 2012. NPS ranger and her Jeopardy game.
#10 Grand Canyon revisited June 8, 2012. Almost to the top of Bright Angel Trail!
Flight from Fairbanks to Bettles Aug. 26, 2012. Karen manages a smile as she buckles herself in the back of the plane.
Historic Bettles Lodge August 26, 2012. 35 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
Bettles Lodge Aug. 26, 2012. Chloe the dog in camo.
Bettles, AK Aug. 27, 2012. Getting our plane ready for take-off at The Pond.
#58 Gates of the Arctic N.P. Aug, 27, 2012. Flying over Gates of the Arctic on our way to Kobuk Valley.
#58 Gates of the Arctic N.P. Aug. 27, 2012. Rainbows everywhere.
#57 Kobuk Valley National Park Aug. 27, 2012. Great Kobuk Sand Dunes.
#58 Gates of the Arctic N.P. Aug. 27, 2012. Walker Lake. Posing for a picture at what we thought was our final national park.
#58 Gates of the Arctic N.P. Aug. 27, 2012. Our pilot refueling his plane.
Flying Back to Bettles Aug. 27, 2012. Flying over the Arrigetch Peaks.
#59 Pinnacles National Park April 1, 2013. High Peaks Loop Trail.
#59 Pinnacles National Park April 1, 2013. High Peaks Loop Trail.
Matt, Karen, Bob and Sue