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Random Photo For You All

Posted in hiking, photos, tagged , , , on February 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Anyone who has hiked with me knows I have hiking “hobbies”. One of which is finding the best privies to take photos of. Yeah, I know…I need real hobbies Anyhow, here is a random photo of my dorkiness! Ldyblade and I found this one on a hidden trail behind a ranger station in the backcountry [...]

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How To Spend A Pineapple Express Weekend at Rainier….

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Back in June I had won a Twitter contest sponsored by Visit Rainier, of which I won gift certificates to be used for a nights stay near The Mountain. We had talked about doing a fall trip but then we headed out the Smokies instead, suddenly we were in December and needed to use them [...]

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A Cold Weekend On The Olympic Coast

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , on December 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Due to one of the ladies I know, I found out about the deal of the decade out at Kalaloch Lodge a couple weeks ago. The deal had gone live that morning and I got our reservations in quickly – lets just say that 2 nights in a cabin, feet from the Pacific Ocean, for [...]

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Dayhiking To Sheep Lake On The PCT

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , on October 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Hikermama had asked if I had Saturday free for a kidling hike and between that and cleaning out our gutters? Hiking won. Duh! Being Mid-October it gets tricky finding that last alpine hike of the season before the snow comes, mostly due to the ice that starts forming – where the soil never warms up [...]

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Wandering In The Smokies: Part 4

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We woke up early to what promised a change in the weather. Warm sunny temps were coming! Braving the eye sore that Gatlinburg is we drove in to do the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail just after dawn. The road work that had closed the road had just been finished with it opening that weekend [...]

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Wandering In The Smokies: Part 3

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It was midweek for our trip and the weather was still slated to be iffy. Both Kirk and I were pretty tired overall and decided that maybe we’d get lucky and the weather would get nicer. So we headed up to Newfound Gap for a small hike on the AT. Well….it was pretty close to [...]

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Wandering In The Smokies: Part 2

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , on October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

On our second day in the park we decided to see Cades Cove. Again I had been warned by Jeff that this was an overly used area but from research it seemed it would be worth it. And it was. The secret being going as early as you can in the day and early in [...]

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Wandering In The Smokies: Part 1

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Kirk and I were headed East for a family wedding in Virgina and decided to plan in a trip to Great Smoky National Park while we were out there. Ford couldn’t take the time off from school now that he is a teenager so he couldn’t come but we figured now was the testing point [...]

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