Riding The Naches Wagon Trail To The PCT
Fair warning: I not only hike but enjoy responsible 4 wheeling with my family. This trip report does contain a little hiking but is more about the run we did. Saturday morning Kirk, Ford and I headed...
View ArticleRandom Trail Items….
New recipe up on Trailcooking! Spring Pasta Salad, an FBC friendly no cook meal that is also veg friendly! A couple photos my good friend Hoosierdaddy sent me this morning of his recent trip in the...
View ArticleA Weekend Of Thru Hikers, Food and More
Hoosierdaddy had been asking if I would have the time to go and do trail angel-ing for PCT thru hikers this summer. He had injured his leg this month so isn’t able to hike real miles right now. I took...
View ArticlePCT Day In Cascade Locks
Saturday was PCT Day at Cascade Locks in Oregon, where the Bridge of the Gods resides. It is the divider between Oregon and Washington. Our good friends Tom and Tori paced themselves so they would be...
View ArticleOn The Edge Of The Clearcuts – PCT Hiking
There sits an area that I love to hike, just South of where the long standing free for all clearcuts start on the PCT here in Washington. Our goal this morning was to hike in and kick back all day in a...
View ArticleHiking In The Clouds
This morning was a chilly one and it only got colder as we drove higher into the mountains, though it only hit 41° for the low. The western side of the state was shrouded in clouds, crossing over into...
View ArticleDayhiking To Sheep Lake On The PCT
Hikermama had asked if I had Saturday free for a kidling hike and between that and cleaning out our gutters? Hiking won. Duh! Being Mid-October it gets tricky finding that last alpine hike of the...
View ArticleNew Wonderland Trail Map Out
A little while ago I was excited to hear the news about the newest Mt. Rainier map that was being debuted by Green Trails. Green Trails is the king of hiking maps out here in Washington and Oregon,...
View ArticleLate Afternoon Hiking on The Pacific Crest Trail
I wasn’t planning on hiking yesterday until I got a last minute invite to do a late afternoon hike with a friend, Jared and his girlfriend, Lauren. They were thinking of going up to Sheep Lake and...
View ArticleWildflower Wanderings
Waking up at 5:30 am wasn’t easy but it paid off. My friend Janelle and I went up to Chinook Pass near Mt. Rainier for an easy dayhike of Naches Peak Loop. Why? Wildflowers! It is a hike I get in 1 to...
View ArticleWildflowers and Thunder
My planned backpacking trip got scrapped by thunderstorms in the Cascade Mountains. A whole lot of rain and lighting – which wreaked havoc in the northern part (and that was just part of the damage!)....
View ArticleOf Face Plants and Mountain Views
Janelle invited me to join her and her friend Annie, who we realized later, we had hiked together before. Turned out neither of them had been North on the Pacific Crest Trail from Snoqualmie Pass. And...
View ArticleHiking On The PCT: Lodge Lake
Yesterday I took a big step for me. I took all 3 boys hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail, without my backup of having Kirk along with me. We met up with my friend Jennifer, who writes at The Hiker Mama,...
View ArticleA Little Hiking & An Alpine Lake
Sometimes life gets in the way, and I wake up and know that I need to go to the mountains. Monday was one of those days. Kirk had been in Asia for a week, for work, and then my brother came over and...
View ArticlePCT Hiking: Government Meadows to Crystal Ski Area
I spent the weekend of August 30-31st, 2008 doing a section of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) that has been waiting for me to have time to do – going South from Government Meadows to the Crystal Ski...
View ArticlePCT Hiking: Gov’t Meadows to Bullion Basin
It was mid-July of 2009, and with the snow gone in the Gov’t Meadows section of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), Steve, Jared, and Teresa joined me to visit this section again. I had hiked it the...
View ArticlePCT Hiking: Wind River
As I sit here on a very cold day in December, writing this post had me smiling – of good memories but also of how the years make the memories better 😉 June 8, 2008. After flipping back and forth...
View ArticlePCT Hiking: Mount Hood to The Columbia River
In July of 2007 I went for a section of the PCT I hadn’t done before: to walk from Mt. Hood to The Columbia River, at Bridge of The Gods. There was 5 of us, staring up at Mt. Hood that Thursday...
View ArticlePCT Hiking: White Pass to Laughingwater Creek Trail
For my final walk down memory lane on the PCT…… August 16-17, 2008. Lynn joined Ford and I for this section on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). We started at White Pass on Hwy 2, heading North. The...
View ArticlePCT Hiking Snoqualmie Pass To Stampede Pass
PCT Hiking Snoqualmie Pass To Stampede Pass – it was September 27th, 2008. The idea was park a car at each end, one at Snoqualmie Pass, the other at Stampede Pass. And walk Southbound on the Pacific...
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