Tag: Tatoosh Wilderness

  • 20210915 Tatoosh Wilderness Loop, GPNF

    20210915 Tatoosh Wilderness Loop, GPNF

    Tatoosh called and I went. All the way. Up, over, and around, and back. By boot and by bike. And it was amazing! The night before, I had driven in to the valley and up to the Tatoosh North TH, way up Butter Creek Rd (USFS 5270) and ditched my bike out of view in…

  • 20210816 Tatoosh Mtn, GPNF

    20210816 Tatoosh Mtn, GPNF

    Low-key weekday retreat to the river for some soul-healing, and some sole-healing. I’ve hurt my foot, so I needed to take it easy. I decided to drive up to Packwood and find someplace along the river – the weather was forecast to be cool, cloudy, and dampish, with really low overnight temps. Sweet! I arrived…

  • 20190510 Muddy Fork Cowlitz Canyon Trail, Tatoosh Wilderness, GPNF

    20190510 Muddy Fork Cowlitz Canyon Trail, Tatoosh Wilderness, GPNF

    Wandered about the mouth of the Muddy Fork Cowlitz canyon on a gorgeous spring day.

  • 20171118 Stevens Canyon of the Muddy Fork Cowlitz, Tatoosh Wilderness, GPNF

    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…

  • 20050827 Tatoosh Lakes GPNF

    20050827 Tatoosh Lakes GPNF

    Hailey O. and I hiked into Tatoosh Lakes. We camped at the lake shore, and woke up around 3AM to a snowstorm. By dawn, we were wet, shivering, and starving, so we high-tailed it down to my grandparent’s house, where Nana made soup and sandwiches for us.