Tag: GPNF
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20190526 Silver-Skate Area, GPNF
Memorial Day Weekend means another summer season begins. I took an extra day from work for a five-day holiday, and spent much of it up in the NW corner of the GPNF, in the area between Longmire and Randle. I was packed for a backpacking adventure, but the lingering snows above ~4000 meant the high…
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20190427 Green River Trail, MSHNVM
Spring is always so difficult. The lowlands are warming, the mountain ridges are melting out, the sun is strengthening, and everybody is waking up from winter. The legs long for a stretch, the soul for a wander. This early in the year, options are limited. I’ve been scouting the South Cascades the entire winter, and…
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20181225 Xmasday Hike on Hall Ridge, USFS Rd 48, GPNF
Not many photos to share from this Christmas day hike (and snowshoe) up the USFS 48 Rd to Lily Basin Trail Head, GPNF. I ventured further than the most adventurous off-roader, but turned back when the roadway was getting choked by snow-covered vegetation. This was a quiet day, with no views.
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20181118 Packwood Lake via Pipeline Trail, GPNF
Took a little day hike up the Pipeline Trail to Packwood Lake.
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20180824 Mt Adams Wilderness #2
Returned to Mt. Adams Wilderness for an overnight at Lookingglass Lake, making it as far South as the South Climb Trail. I will never forget the lonely night spent at Lookingglass Lake – the wind howling thru the burnt-over forest sounded like the shrieking of a thousand damned souls in the depths of hell. It…
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20180818 Mt Adams Wilderness #1
Hiked up the Killen Creek Trail to the High Camp. where I spent the night in the meadow, camped in a mountain goat wallow, then south to Foggy Flat for another night in a meadow, spending a day hiking in to the Devil’s Gardens.
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20180101 Muddy Fork Cowlitz, GPNF
Spent New Year Day wandering about the base of Tatoosh up to the trailhead.
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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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20170704 Carlton Creek Cowlitz Trail, GPNF
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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…