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Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Jan 9th, 2010
The weather report for today was apparently quite wrong. The prediction had been 90% rain or something like that and instead it was sunny, balmy and just too nice to not get outside. Kirk humored his slow wife by agreeing to do an easy loop out at Nolte State Park around Deep Lake. We left [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Oct 12th, 2009
We had three days free so Kirk and I decided to head up to the San Juan Islands here in Washington State. The weather was quite promising so even better. Did I mention we were kid free? Even more fun!
To get to the San Juan’s you head to the ferry dock in Anacortes, on Fidalgo [...]
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, hiking, photos on Aug 24th, 2009
Hoosierdaddy had been asking if I would have the time to go and do trail angel-ing for PCT thru hikers this summer. He had injured his leg this month so isn’t able to hike real miles right now. I took him up on it this past weekend and we headed down South to Cascade Locks, [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Aug 16th, 2009
Kirk and I decided to have a weekend of easy hiking and relaxtion on our minds. Heading up from Bellingham, where we made our “base camp” (er…..um….I believe base camp even had a deluxe complimentry breakfast and a King Suite), we took Hwy 542 (Mt. Baker Scenic Highway) to the Mt. Baker area. We could [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Aug 2nd, 2009
Fair warning: I not only hike but enjoy responsible 4 wheeling with my family. This trip report does contain a little hiking but is more about the run we did.
Saturday morning Kirk, Ford and I headed off to Eastern Washington early, to meet up with his Xterra group for a run and also camping. The [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Jul 20th, 2009
Ford and I got up early this morning to drive to Sunrise at Rainier (Tahoma). One to beat the heat, two to beat the crowds and three to beat the changing weather.
Meadows full of Lupine with a view I always love:
We headed to the Frozen Lake junction and I decided I wanted to go up [...]
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