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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Food Finds, hiking, Trail Cooking on Feb 19th, 2011
There is little as lovely as bright blue skies on a mid February morning here in the Pacific Northwest. And if you don’t take advantage of it you will hate yourself later when it is back to drizzly gray in March! I met up with a couple lovely ladies who all have babies (3 and [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Oct 17th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Oct 12th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Oct 12th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Oct 12th, 2010
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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