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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 [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Jul 6th, 2010
Hopefully the 4th of July weekend was good for everyone – though that means most of us are back to work today! With Western Washington still in the throes of freaking winter our options for hiking have been well noted as being minimal. On Saturday Kirk and I took the boys out for an easy [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Apr 26th, 2010
Kirk and I took Walker for his first trip to Mt. Rainier NP on Sunday (with big brother Ford as well!) This is the entrance to the Carbon River side, the end of the road and the start of the near 5 mile road/trail walk along the river and through the rain forest. Rainier decided [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Oct 6th, 2009
Weather wise there isn’t much better than right after the first snow storms of early October blow through – and the sun comes back. I woke up this morning before dawn and knew it was the day to do the ‘loop’ around Tahoma. Stevens Canyon Road had been fixed so why not? Who knows what [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Oct 2nd, 2009
I was flipping through photos in iPhoto when I came across a set I took around this time of year, last year, up at Paradise. Right now the snow is swirling good this week. Snow levels have dropped to 4K and have been holding. Yet come end of the weekend it is supposed to dry [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Sep 14th, 2009
Woke up to what I could call a mostly free morning and Kirk encouraged me to head up into the mountains. I wasn’t sure where to go so I drove up into the clouds. Something told me to go to Sunrise at Rainier and who am I to ignore the luring song in my head? [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Aug 7th, 2009
I was talking with Cat yesterday when I realized I had not been to Eunice Lake, which is in Mt. Rainier NP, since August of 2005. It was with Cat I had been there last. With the weather being cool this week doing a hike that doesn’t focus on mountain views sounded good. And the [...]
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