Reaching Volcanic Heights: Mt St Helens P3
My favorite beaches are not the sandy ones where you lay out on a towel and soak up the sun. My favorite beaches are the ones with things to climb on and explore. I really enjoy scrambling around on big…
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Reaching Volcanic Heights: Mt St Helens P2
Hitting the trail so early in the morning has a few drawbacks primarily the spark plugs in my brain don’t fire as well as they should. I say that as the reason I got to the trailhead before having to…
Reaching Volcanic Heights: Mt St Helens P1
It’s hard to believe that it’s been less than 2 months since I agreed to climb Mt. St. Helens with Snesha and then proceeded to talk Chris into the same slightly crazy idea. I still can’t believe we did it.…
A Series of Unfortunate Mistakes – Part 2 of 3
Without traffic, it takes just under an hour to get to the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center and, for the majority of the drive, there wasn’t much traffic at all. It’s a lovely drive. You start out on 101 which…
A Series of Unfortunate Mistakes – Part 1 of 3
We celebrated our 10th anniversary this year. It kind of snuck up on us what with COVID and all. We were going to go on a trip over our actual anniversary weekend but ran into important delays/reasons to postpone. Due…
Finding Serenity Past the Bridal Veil
I feel like I’m at the beginning of the Rocky training montage. Man! If I was doing video clips, that could be an awesome way to celebrate 6 weeks from now. But I’m not so we’ll have to celebrate in…
New Boots for a Possible Midlife Crisis
I got new boots! On my last hike, I found out that my old boots were no longer waterproof. They’d been slowly losing their comfort and our trip to Snow Lake was very wet (the trail was literally a river…
The Mountains are Calling
They say to get a truck. Or a Jeep. Maybe a Subaru. The plan for today’s hike was to get up early, drive to Timbuktu (okay fine it was really somewhat near Arlington, WA), and hike the 8.6 mile Boulder…
Solo Hiking at Squak Mountain State Park
Hiking 101: hike with a buddy. But I had the day off and Chris did not so I planned out a 4ish mile hike at a nearby park, shared the plan and my location with Chris, and off I went.…
Prague: Tourist Detours
Chris says these things weren’t off the beaten path of Prague (my first title for this post) because the heart of Prague “was right there!” I suppose he wasn’t wrong because you can in fact see the throngs of tourists…