Category: Hiking
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20171118 Stevens Canyon of the Muddy Fork Cowlitz, Tatoosh Wilderness, GPNF
Perhaps you’ve been to Mount Rainier National Park, and visited the Box Canyon, along the Stevens Canyon highway. It’s an amazing formation – a very narrow slot canyon gouged into the bedrock beneath the unimaginable weight and pressure of a massive glacier. At certain points, one might imagine leaping across the narrowest points of the…
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20171010-15 Hailey, ID
Pics from my most recent trip to Idaho – no backpacking, as the temperature was down into the single digits at Grandjean… but I did get to meet a moose family, including the bull! Thank you, Hailey O’Reilly and family for putting me up for the week – I had a blast!
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20170811 Midnight Hike to 3Burroughs, MRNP
I wanted to see shooting stars. It didn’t work out that way, but I had an amazing time hiking through the night, across the ‘tundra’, taking some pictures in the late evening light on a side-trip to Fremont Lookout for the sunset. Much of my trip from Fremont to 3B was without lights, as there…
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20170724 Windy Ridge Road, MSHNVM
It was time to return to Loowit. With summer getting into full swing, I was anxious to explore Windy Ridge Rd, which I had worked my way up to the end of on my last hike, where I explored the Pumice Plain and Sasquatch Steps, having ascended the toe of Windy Ridge along the access…
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20170518 Eruption Day – JRO to Loowit Trail, MSHNVM
Eruption Day! I hiked up the Loowit Trail to the JRO.
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20170316 Hummocks Trail to Johnston Ridge, MSHNVM
What an unexpectedly awesome birthday! I had a little party – just me, a shy coyote, a not so shy raven, and Loowit, in all of her steaming, snow-mantled, sun-dappled glory. Clouds larger than even mountains drifted across a sunny sky, warming the cliff-side meadows of Johnston Ridge, overlooking the lunar-fractal landscape of the Pumice…
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20170515 Upper Coldwater Lake MSHNVM
A day hike up the Coldwater Lake Trail, MSHNVM as spring is getting underway.
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20170416 South Coldwater Ridge Trail & Sediment Retention Dam
This day was cold and windy, snow still capping the ridges, the sky dim, even though the clouds were not thick. I hiked up the South Coldwater Ridge trail, parking at The Hummocks and walking to the trail head. The trail climbs up the ridgeline, with a few switchbacks to gain elevation. Mostly, though, it…
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20170409 Ohanapecosh Canyon & Big Bottom
I spent a day exploring the lower reaches of Ohanapecosh Canyon at Lawiswis, then drove across the river for a very short ramble about the mouth of Stevens Canyon. Twice I was left yearning to follow the trail further. Biking down the road to the campground at Lawiswis was fun. Up again, not so much. Rambling…
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20170319 Lakes Trail #211, Coldwater Creek, MSHNVM
The last day of winter found me hiking the Lakes Trail #211 alongside Coldwater Lake and Coldwater Creek, encountering a trail increasingly full of sloppy, soft cascadian concrete by the end. It was almost tough enough to hold me up, but then, not quite. Similarly, my shins were almost tough enough to withstand the ice…