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Two New Hiking Guides for the Wonderland Trail in 2012

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »

For many years the go-to guide-book for The Wonderland Trail was Discovering the Wonders of the Wonderland Trail: Encircling Mount Rainier. It, along with a map or two, and you were ready to go.   Bette’s book took me on my many Wonderland adventures and is still on my guidebook shelf. I have recommended this book to 100′s, [...]

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Dayhiking Berkeley Park

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , on August 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Saturday I went to Sunrise at Mt. Rainier National Park with Janelle and we hiked to Berkeley Park. I hadn’t been down that trail since 2004, when Ford and I did a death march from Sunrise through Berkeley to Grand Park and back. I enjoyed the trail this time, seeing it almost as I had never done it before. [...]

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Wildflower Wanderings

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Waking up at 5:30 am wasn’t easy but it paid off. My friend Janelle and I went up to Chinook Pass near Mt. Rainier for an easy dayhike of Naches Peak Loop. Why? Wildflowers! It is a hike I get in 1 to 2 times a year usually, it is pretty…you get to be on the Pacific [...]

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An Early Morning

Posted in Food Finds, hiking, photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »

It sucks getting up early on a Sunday, but the early hiker gets a parking spot at the trailhead! And at Rainier, early means no lines getting into the park and quiet trails. Come after lunch and they close the gates if at park capacity on the side we were in! My friend Lynn joined [...]

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Monday At Sunrise

Posted in Food Finds, hiking, photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Monday Kirk had a rare weekday off, so we took all the boys up to Sunrise at Mt. Rainier NP for an easy day of hiking. We hadn’t been up there since last summer and last year the snow was deep. This was so much better – barely any snow left made for easy hiking. The weather [...]

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Two Wee Ones and Two Lakes

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , on July 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Saturday Kirk and I took our two youngest up to Mt. Rainier for an easy hike to Bench and Snow Lakes. I hadn’t done the trail since 2003 (our oldest was 6 then) and Kirk hadn’t hiked it before. Having two small ones has encouraged me to find shorter hikes once again….and in a way, [...]

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Along The Carbon River – Spring Hiking

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Do you have a hike that says “Spring” to you? In the past couple years it has become the Carbon River on the far side of Mount Rainier National Park. Or should I say now that past 5 years? It has been that long I realized today as we were hiking, since the destruction from [...]

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Vintage Book Find: Exploring Mount Rainier

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, tagged , , , , , on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

If you watched the series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” (and if you haven’t you better!) and you watched episode 4, there is an older lady interviewed, Ruth Kirk. To get a feeling of how many books she wrote read this article on her from last year. So I was a wee bit excited [...]

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