Tag: William O Douglas Wilderness
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20200920 PCT – Tipsoo Lake to Bumping River, WOD, GPNF OWNF
Autumn is here! I spent two days hiking the PCT from Tipsoo Lake, MRNP to the Bumping River at Fish Lake, GRW, and then back again via Swamp and American Lakes. Lots of elk bugling, a few hunters and a few hikers out.
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20200719 Carlton-Summit Loop via Historical Crossing, GPNF, WOD
Historical trails have been something of an interest for me for some time now. I’ve been researching and traveling the Cowlitz and Klickitat Trails in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, among some of the oldest in the region, dating to some thousands of years old. I’ve traced much of the Cowlitz Trail from Randle up to…
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20160630 Pacific Crest Trail, White Pass North to Fish Lake, WOD
What a stunning landscape! First, the pictures, and then I’ll tell you all about it. Because priorities. There weren’t a whole lot of flowers blooming yet, but the scenery was stunning all the same. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT or Trail #2000) and criss-crossing side trails are all melted out, or quite nearly so. The side trails…
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20160604 Cowlitz Trail, GPNF, WOD
This weekend, I drove up to Packwood via Skate Creek – finding out that it is just as quick to drive up I-5 to SR512, and take Hwy 7 to Ashford, as it is to slog through Yelm. Gawd, I hate driving through Yelm. I had my mind set to hike up the Carlton Creek…
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20050624 Tumac Plateau GPNF OWNF WOD
My first trip in to the Tumac Plateau.