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Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Mar 5th, 2011
What started out as an afternoon stroll with Kirk and Walker turned into a nice hike/walk for the baby and I. And I did it in cotton. And lived to come back and bore you all with my tale Gasp! The weather has finally started warming up and was actually drying out – after the [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 23rd, 2011
A hike from many years ago that held some significance, it was the last hike I took a film camera on. Not long after I received my first digital camera (a gift from Kirk) and how I took photos changed. But on that day we set out. It was a cold November day in 2002 [...]
Back in those long ago days when the world was ancient…er…I mean before the advent of digital cameras, taking photos on hiking trips was different. I can remember going on backpacking trips and taking less than 24 photos in a 3 day trip. Film wasn’t cheap nor was the processing. Nowadays I might shoot 200-300 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 21st, 2011
My friend HikerMama had emailed me last night wondering if I was free today. The good weather was on the wane but the first half of the day looked to be decent enough. Three hikes in three days? Oh sure, it had been way too long since I got to pull that off (2009? Before [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 20th, 2011
Kirk and I took the boys out for a quick family hike this afternoon. It was still blue skies aplenty but threatening to change…so not a day to waste! It got down to around 23° last night and was still definitely chilly out all day. We decided on the close in Nolte State Park which [...]
Do you ever see things in nature that make you stop and take a photo? Heart shapes are something I love seeing On the side of a trail in the Central Cascades in Washington State: Kirk dwarfed by a massive heart shape in Arches NP in Utah: A heart shape rock cross country in the [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 8th, 2011
Mt. Rainier is pretty all year but there is something about the period between December and March, when the upper reaches are blanketed heavily in snow. No paltry amounts either, Rainier is a master at creating her own weather and often is hidden behind heavy clouds for weeks on end. Dumping and dumping snow. If [...]
This week I realized bitterly that it has been nearly a year since we lost our friend and hiking partner Jeremy. I did not talk about it last year much, it was a sad time for most of my hiking friends – Jer was one of us and he left too early. I met Jer [...]
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