Packwood Lake: Setting It All Aside

June 30, 2022 /12.1 miles / 54.7 of 101 The news of the day, every day, is overwhelming and beyond … Continue reading Packwood Lake: Setting It All Aside

Adventure Log: Return to Mount Zion

June 24, 2022Mount Zion / Olympic National Forest /6.5 miles / 42.6 of 101 /1030 ft. elevation change It’s hard … Continue reading Adventure Log: Return to Mount Zion

June 15, 2022 / Coldwater Lake, Mt. St. Helens /5.1 miles / 36.1 of 101 Wednesday is forecasted to be … Continue reading Adventure Log: In which I demonstrate I can learn a lesson

May 17, 2022South Coldwater Lake Trail, 8.2 miles (25 / 70) It’s been over two weeks since I’ve been on … Continue reading Adventure Log: In Which I Invoke All Three Great Prayers—Help. Thanks. Wow.

April 4, 20227.9 miles1050 feet elevation change I’ve been giving thought to how I want to celebrate this calendar year … Continue reading Adventure Log: Big Creek Loop (and on turning 70)

I’ve just completed my annual slideshow—with music—of my hiking season to beautiful places in the Pacific Northwest (and one in … Continue reading 2021 Adventure Season—The Movie

Mt. Fremont LookoutAugust 18, 2021 The plan for Wednesday—with the promise of sun—is to hike to the lookout above Sunrise. … Continue reading Camping & Hiking the White River: Part 4

Emmons MoraineAugust 16, 2021 After the morning debacle (read that here), I abandon my plan to drive back down the … Continue reading Camping & Hiking the White River: Part 2

August. 9, 2021 I did it! I got to the “other” side of Mt. Rainier with no wrong turns! And, … Continue reading Adventure Log: Return to Spray Park

I have nothing more to prove, to myself or anyone else. Side story: I am in better shape than I … Continue reading Adventure Log: Mt. Townsend Revisited—What Was I Thinking?