We go to these places. It's not easy but it's always worth the effort. Spectacular places available to anyone on the planet. It's an enormous National Park, with a mandate to be preserved, intact. Writing this caption, 10 year after I took this panorama I muse, "It's still there. Almost no difference from when we visited." National parks preserve the 'homelands' of humans on planet earth--and that's a good thing. Photographer: Bill Eichenlaub