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I 💙 the game of 🏈 and everything it’s given me my whole life. I just want to give back to the next generation of scholar ballers as long as I can. 🙌🙏

S/o to @3mmanwori for being that guy on and off the field and putting on a helluva camp with us coaches. Had a blast throwing some dimes to the kids against all-world 3mman! 🫡 taken in BALL is LIFE by @kd253_

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a month ago

There is meaning on 🌏 & I am happy 😎

The road less traveled has always been more enjoyable and rewarding for me. Nature and adventure will forever be my true happiness and peace in this crazy 🌎. I’m thankful for everyone and everything in my life and I’m truly the most passionate, empathetic, competitive, gritty, and unstoppable person you will ever meet. I spent the last 3.5 months on the road reminding myself who I am and what I’m capable of. No person or thing can stop me no matter how hard they try. There is endless opportunity and amazing people and places in this world and I can’t wait to continue to explore and engage with them. I saw so many places, experienced so many unique things and met so many people that will all be with me forever. This included visiting 20 national parks in a row across 8 states, as well as driving to Mexico and up the entire coast to Canada. I love people, I love new places, and I love making a difference whether that is through work or just talking to someone and learning their story and maybe helping them in some way. I can’t wait to share all my adventures in the near future. Starting with this recap…

I love my friends & family dearly and I’m forever grateful for all of you. Now it’s time to continue to be great and ball the fuck out as always. Cheers & much love 🙌🙏🎉💙

By the #s 📈:
• 3.5 months on the road solo dolo
• 9,512 miles driven (a fortune on ⛽️ $)
• 20 National Parks visited 🏔️
• 8 states & 3 Countries visited 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
• Over 1K stops
• 75 days straight (71 nights camping 🏕️)
• 510 HRs of drive time… over 20 days of driving 🚘
• Endless new friends & memories a long the way 💙

1. Mojave Desert 🏜️ 2. Unreal, unedited photo I got of the Milky Way outside of Crater Lake, OR. Top right is a shooting 🌠. 3. Yosemite NP at its finest 🌈 4. Crater Lake NP - EPIC 5. Toured up Mt Shasta ⛷️ 6. Death Valley NP- Artist Pallet 🌅 7. Santa Cruz Island 🏝️ 8. Bryce Canyon NP 🌄 9. Herd of elk 10. Oceano Dunes, CA 11. Black Bear 🐻 12. Lassen Peak 13. Joshua Tree 14. OR Dunes 15. OR Coast 16. Tunnel 🪨 + some 17. Zion & Sequoias 🌲 18. Olympic NP + San Juan’s 19. 🇲🇽 + 🇨🇦 20. Time to go home, for now. by @kd253_

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3 months ago

On A Mountain… right where I wanna be. 🥶⛅️ 🏔️ taken in Kendall Peak Lakes by @kd253_

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9 months ago

So damn lucky to dive right into Capitol Reef 🪸

Capitol Reef was National Park #7 on my 20 in a row over 3.5 months straight on the road. This place is so old and layered it’s hard to understand since it was once an accent ocean almost a hundred million years ago. This Utah NP is known as Capitol Reef due to its capitol looking domes and reef like rocks from being at the bottom of the ocean at one point 😱. Best parts were running into my new buddy Yoann from France 🇫🇷 that I met in Bryce Canyon days earlier & then scrambling up Hickman Natural Bridge to the top which is one of the hardest climbs I’ve ever accomplished so far. Let me know what you think about Capitol 🪸 National Park 🏞️

1. Permian, Triassic/Jurassic & Cretaceous period 🪨 layers

2. Gooseneck Point🪿

3. Hickman Natural Bridge

4. Free scrambled to the top of Hickman Natural Bridge 💪 🪨

5. Pectol’s Pyramid

6. Castle Rock with clouds mirroring its peaks 🏰 🪨

7. 🌼 🌞

8. Hickman Bridge Trail 🥾

9. Egyptian Temple

10. 🪸🪨 in the Grand Wash

11. Overlooking Gooseneck Point & the San Juan River

12. My new friend Yoann all the way from France 🇫🇷 who is spending the entire year biking through South America and North America nonstop. He had an unfortunate accident in Bryce Canyon a few days before where his 🐻 spray blew up on him in his tent in the middle of the night. I found him fucked up at the camp showers washing everything. Days later saw him riding a dirt road on my way to Capitol Reef and gave him a ride. We kicked it that afternoon and set up camp next to each other. I showed him what fajita tacos are and American rap music as well as how to make a fire lol. Same age, completely different life stories and homes in the world. Yet we became friends in minutes and ran into each other days later. We are all more similar and connected than we let ourselves believe in this crazy world. My guy for life now.

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14. Panorama Point

15. ⛺️ 🌅

16. 1000+ year old Petroglyphs from the Hopi & Zuni tribes.

17. Fremont River Walk

18. Twin 🪨s

19. 🛻⛺️

20. I just wanna be a road dawg 4eva 🐕

#nationalpark #getoutside #captiolreef #utah

2. Gooseneck Point🪿

3. taken in Capitol Reef National Park Utah by @kd253_

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11 days ago

HOODOO YOU LOVE!? I 💙 Bryce Canyon National Park 😮‍💨🏞️

Bryce Canyon NP in Utah was National Park #6 on my 20 in a row over 3.5 months straight on the road. It’s truly one of my favorites. You drive in on a flat bluff through rock arches to access the park not really seeing much or understanding truly how out of this 🌎 it is until you make your way to the canyons edge to sweeping views of HOODOOS and colorful 🪨 for miles! The HOODOOS, like THORS 🔨 as seen in slide one are carved and formed through thousands of years of ice and snow creating cracks in the rock then thawing and storms breaking away at them over time to create these fields of towering “HOODOOS”. It’s epic and feels like Mars to say the least! 👽

1. Thors 🔨 in a backdrop full of hoodoos

2. Bish HOODOO YOU LOVE!?

3. 🤳 over Bryce Canyon Amphitheater full of hoodoos

4. Sunrise over Bryce Canyon 🌞

5. Under the Rim Trail 🥾

6. Mossy Cave Trail & Waterfall💧

7. On the edge 😮‍💨🔥

8. Entrance to Bryce Canyon through 🪨 tunnel arches

9. Rim Trail

10. Dope.

11. Camp fajitas 🌮 @ sunset 🌅

12. 🌲s in the night sky 🌌

13. Wall Street 💰

14. 2 🌲s towering on the Under the Rim Trail

15. The Grand Staircase in the distance on Yovimpa Point @ 9,115 ft elv.

16. Common Raven chillen in a not so common place overlooking a natural bridge 🌟

17. Bryce Canyon @ its finest 🤩

18. Sick arches

19. 🌅

20. Camp 🔥 every night.

#nationalpark #brycecanyon #getoutside #utah

2. Bish HOODOO YOU LOVE!?

3. 🤳 over Bryce Canyon Amphitheater full of hoodoos

4. Sunrise over Bryce Canyon at sunrise point🌞

5. Under the Rim Trail 🥾

6. Mossy Cave Trail & Waterfall💧

7. On the edge 😮‍💨🔥

8. Entrance to Bryce Canyon through 🪨 tunnel arches

9. Rim Trail

10. Dope.

11. Camp fajitas 🌮 @ sunset 🌅

12. 🌲s in the night sky 🌌

13. Wall Street 💰

14. 2 🌲s towering on the Under the Rim Trail

15. The Grand Staircase in the distance on Yovimpa Point @ 9,115 ft elv.

16. Common Raven chillen in a not so common place overlooking a natural bridge 🌟

17. Bryce Canyon @ its finest 🤩

18. Sick arches

19. 🌅

20. Camp 🔥 every night. taken in Bryce Canyon National Park by @kd253_

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a month ago

Lived an electric dream through Zion National Park!🕺🏻🏞️

Life’s definitely elevated in this Utah mecca of a park. This was National Park stop #5 out of 20 in a row for 3.5 months straight on the road! The Narrows is a helluva journey as you wade through the virgin river in a tall narrow canyon full of beautiful red rock and greenery growing through the cracks. For sure my favorite part of the park, yet there were so many other amazing things to see and do! Check some of it out for yourself and let me know what you think! 💙

1. Crushed 10 miles out & back through the Narrows 🌊

2. The Narrows & Wall Street collide for an epic passage

3. Kolob Canyons 🥾

4. Sunset on Zion Canyon 🌅

5. Super cool shot looking up the Narrows from the base of the Virgin River

6. Virgin River 🌞

7. Zion Canyon 🔥

8. Happy kid trucking along 🕺🏻

9. More Narrows & Virgin River 😮‍💨

10. Perspective shot from weeping 🪨

11. Canyon Junction River Area

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13. Under weeping 🪨 as it drips water with an epic backdrop

14. Truck 🌮s with a view

15. ⛰️🌅🌺

16. The drive through Zion-Mount Carmel Highway is unbelievable! 🔥

17. Tunnel Vision with a vieewwwwww

18. Big dawg Bison 🦬

19. Checkerboard Mesa

20. LIFE ELEVATED IN UTAH 😎

#nationalparks #zion #utah #getoutside

2. The Narrows & Wall Street collide for an epic passage

3. Kolob Canyons 🥾

4. Sunset on Zion Canyon 🌅

5. Super cool shot looking up the Narrows from the base of the Virgin River

6. Virgin River 🌞

7. Zion Canyon 🔥

8. Happy kid trucking along 🕺🏻

9. More Narrows & Virgin River 😮‍💨

10. Perspective shot from weeping 🪨

11. Canyon Junction River Area

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13. Under weeping 🪨 as it drips water with an epic backdrop

14. Truck 🌮s with a view

15. ⛰️🌅🌺

16. The drive through Zion-Mount Carmel Highway is unbelievable! 🔥

17. Tunnel Vision with a vieewwwwww

18. Big dawg Bison 🦬

19. Checkerboard Mesa

20. LIFE ELEVATED IN UTAH 😎 taken in Zion National Park by @kd253_

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2 months ago

The Light of a Clear Blue Morning hits different in Great Basin National Park 😮‍💨🏞️ (Rest easy Miss Dolly 🙌🙏🐐)

This was National Park #4 on my 3.5 month journey across 20 National Parks in a row. Great Basin is the only NP in Nevada towering over the basin floor which is desert like. What’s so unique is the super old glacier on top of the Basin that provides sweeping ridge line views over the Great Basin that was carved out by massive glaciers over thousands of years. The best part was scrambling up to the base of Wheeler Peak through rock slides and snow and seeing the Bristolcone Pine 🌲s which are sometimes 4-5K years old making them one of the oldest living organisms in the 🌍 let alone growing in harsh alpine environments.

1. The base of Wheeler Peak and one of the oldest glaciers in North America. 🧊

2. Views of Great Basin in the distance on a 100+ degree day sweeping up to the Wheeler Peak Glacier covered in snow and ice.

3. A Bristlecone Pine 🌲 that’s still alive at almost 11,500 ft. and are 4-5K years old sometimes!

4. 🌙 🏔️ 🔥

5. Towering beautiful Bristlecone Pine🌲 these trees are twisted and warped from the harsh wind and elements in their alpine climates.

6. Chimney 🪨

7. Sunrise over the Great Basin 😮‍💨

8. Shoots & ladders 🛝 🪜

9. Teresa Lake in the Wheeler Peak Glacier range at around 10K elevation.

10. Making my way for the viewz 😎

11. 📸 🏔️

12. 🌞 Mather Overlook

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14. The desert 🏜️ basin floor.

15. Wheeler Peak Glacier 🧊

16. Crushing through the ❄️ to get where we want to goooo

17. Thank you Great Basin NP 🙏

#nationalparks #outdoors #getoutside #greatbasin

2. Views of Great Basin in the distance on a 100+ degree day sweeping up to the Wheeler Peak Glacier covered in snow and ice.

3. A Bristlecone Pine 🌲 that’s still alive at almost 11,500 ft. and are 4-5K years old sometimes!

4. 🌙 🏔️ 🔥

5. Towering beautiful Bristlecone Pine🌲 these trees are twisted and warped from the harsh wind and elements in their alpine climates.

6. Chimney 🪨

7. Sunrise over the Great Basin 😮‍💨

8. Shoots & ladders 🛝 🪜

9. Teresa Lake in the Wheeler Peak Glacier range at around 10K elevation. taken in Great Basin National Park by @kd253_

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2 months ago

Catch me outside how bout dat 🎣
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Never gets old crushing it off shore out of Westport. Tough seas at times making it a grind but well worth the all nighter, early morning and long day 5am-7pm on the water. Grateful for my guys Mike & Bob always letting me get after it with them. Freezer will be full again, great eats to come and an even better time.

Hali & Ling Tingggsssss

Blue shark being a little shit and messing up the operation lol

What a beaut 🦈

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Hallelujah Hali 🙏

2 is better than 1.

Double time.

Slayyyyy 💅

Fat boi Ling

The King of the ocean 👑

Early bird gets the 🪱

Hi buddy (sunfish) I hope you find your daddddd

Ugly ahhhh boiiiii

Viewz.

Big bait = big dawgs 🎣

Best boat sammy. 🥪 taken in Westport, Washington by @kd253_

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2 months ago

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; after all I’m DEAD FRESH in Death Valley 🏜️😮‍💨🌞

#3 National Park 🏞️ on my 20 in a row while on the road for 3.5 months straight. Death Valley National Park in CA is by far one of the most unique and incredible places I’ve ever been in my life. At times it’s deathly silent and beyond desolate, making it feel like you might be on mars, or so one would think. It was hotter than hell all day and night around the valley floor but in the high peaks the mornings had quite the chill to them.🥶

1. Dante’s View just after sunrise

2. Artist Pallet 🧑‍🎨 at sunset. Colorful 🌋 deposits cover the landscape as the 🌞 brings a golden tint to everything around

3. Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in the great Mojave Desert 🏜️

4. 20 mule team canyon

5. Devils Golf Course 😈⛳️

6. Natural Bridge Trail

7. Badwater Basin aka the lowest point in all of North America at 282 ft below Sea Level 😱

8. Titus Canyon via Red Pass

9. Red Pass overlook - this one lane red dirt trail took me almost 3 hours and was absolutely gnarly to travel but well worth the views

10. The Ranch at Death Valley (Epic resort in the middle of the 🏜️)

11. Camp grub after sunset 🌅

12. Sunset at Zabriskie Point 🔥

13. 🏜️ 🤷🏻‍♂️

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15. Natural 🪨 Bridge

16. Sunrise time lapse at Dante’s View 🌅

17. Hiking the ridge of Dante’s View Trail

18. 20 Mule Team Canyon Overlook 🤩

19. The gate to Death Valley

20. Furnace Creek for a reason… 106F at 11am 😅

#deathvalley #deathvalleynationalpark #outdoors #getoutside

2. Artist Pallet 🧑‍🎨 at sunset. Colorful 🌋 deposits cover the landscape as the 🌞 brings a golden tint to everything around

3. Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in the great Mojave Desert 🏜️ I hiked out to the highest sand dune and it was so damn hot 🥵 but well worth the effort.

4. 20 Mule Team Canyon 🤳

5. Devils Golf Course 😈⛳️

6. Natural Bridge Trail

7. Badwater Basin aka the lowest point in all of North America at 282 ft below Sea Level 😱

8. Titus Canyon via Red Pass

9. Red Pass overlook - this one lane red dirt trail took me almost 3 hours and was absolutely gnarly to travel but so wort taken in Death Valley National Park by @kd253_

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2 months ago

Kings Canyon & Sequoias National Parks.👑 🏞️ 🌲
Late April - 2026

These 2 National Parks are inner-connected but very different and were the first 2 NPs on my grand roadtrip. You have the sharp carved out Kings Canyon from glaciation and the 🧊 age followed by some of the biggest 🌲s in the world just down the way all nestled together in the Sierra Nevada 🏔️s. Epic to say the least in the vast change of landscape. This was in April and one of the nights/days was snowy and cold and dense fog throughout which made for a unique mix of scenery.

The weather can change fast here so you have to stay ready 😎

1. Literally hanging out in Kings Canyon 😬
2. Super long waterfall leading to the river of the canyon floor
3. Towering Sequoia tree with one that came down hard and is now a natural tunnel
4. Roaring Rivers Falls
5. South Forks Kings River
6. Grizzly Falls
7. Tough Twins (Survived several 🔥s together)
8. 10 Mile Creek & a long waterfall
9. Giant Sequoia with massive burn marks and indent
10. River rippin’
11. Viewz from the Kings Canyon edge 😬
12. Cool bridge over the river
13. General Sherman Tree by the #s
14. My dawg General Sherman Tree & I 💪🤝
15. Tunnel 🪨
16. Idk some cool overlook
17. Surrounded by giants 😱
18. Giant Stump Grove
19. Cool creek in the stump grove
20. TY for supporting your NPs 🫡

#explorepage #nationalparks #getoutside by @kd253_

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3 months ago

LOMBARDI PARTY 🏆

Go Hawks! 🙌🙏 taken in Virginia Mason Athletic Center by @kd253_

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8 months ago

Paradin’ around town with the squad & a million other friends! 🎉🙌🙏🏆 taken in Seattle, Washington by @kd253_

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8 months ago