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Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Sep 3rd, 2010
Years ago, in 2003, (has it been that long??) when we had first moved to this area, Ford and I checked out The Glacier Basin Trail at Mt. Rainier NP early in the season. We had been turned back by snow maybe a mile short. Mostly due to me postholing so bad I was lucky [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 30th, 2010
Last weekend Kirk and I had gone up to the Island for family things and we had been expecting cold, overcast weather. When in the afternoon it cleared up and we instead got balmy winds and blue skies. We hadn’t been able to get away till late afternoon and on the way home we stopped [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, hiking on Aug 23rd, 2010
New to Packitgourmet’s meal lineup is an Apple Waldorf Salad. It contains an inner bag of the dry veggies and fruit, a bag of currants, mayo packet and blue cheese dressing packet: Incredibly easy to prepare: Add the dry items to the outer mixing bag (reserve the smaller bag for garbage), top with currants, then [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 23rd, 2010
Kirk and I had headed up to Whidbey Island this morning. Coming into the ferry dock at Clinton: We drove up to Ft. Ebey State Park and went to the Gun Battery area to jump up on the Bluff Trail. The Bluff Trail is one of the few trails in the area that is hiker [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 10th, 2010
Ford and I took Walker up to Sunrise for his first time yesterday. We left rainy cold weather behind as we drove higher towards Rainier. The last 1,000 feet of elevation gain was in a thick cloud, one of those go 2 mph’s as you cannot see in front of you and on a cliff….but [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 2nd, 2010
I have a bias – it is that I love few places more than I love Grand Park in Mt. Rainier. I have been there three times and I hope in my life I will go there many more times. Even in those three times I have seen so little of it. It is so [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Jul 19th, 2010
With the still melting snow out here our choices of easier ‘family hikes’ is limited so we choose Silver Falls Loop, a hike out in the Ohanapecosh area of Mt. Rainier NP. It is a hike we often due in late spring (it melts early) but this year the falls were still thundering even in [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Jul 12th, 2010
Jared and I had talked over a couple hikes with visions of grandeur that were promptly smacked down due to the ever lingering snow levels here in Western Washington. Even a week of higher than average temperatures couldn’t blow it all out. Oh well! So we decided instead to just make miles and get some [...]
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