4 miles / 250 feet gained / 1 night
Caught Timberline's fireworks with our two sons while our daughter hosted a party.
Recent Hikes
6 miles / 1,250 feet gained
Hotspring in a slot canyon in Arizona. Side trip to see some petroglyphs. Would like to try this by boat some day.
3 miles / 1,000 feet gained
Spent two days climbing at Red Rocks. The climbing was fun, but there is a lot of standing around. We were surrounded by spectacular desert beauty in every direction, but didnt go anywhere but the crag. On the third day, I decided to skip climbing and go for a hike instead. Fun scramble up to the high point of the Calico Hills. Started from the Sandstone Qua...
4.5 miles / 500 feet gained
I never get tired of seeing the lacy ice that gets formed along the creek.
9 miles / 2,000 feet gained
Weather pretty good today. Warm and dry for 95% of the hike. Now in a melt phase. Snow persistent above Wahkeena turnoff, but soft, spikes not necessary but helpful.
14 miles / 1,750 feet gained
Great hike in the rain. Return trip in a deluge.Glad I brought my umbrella.
4 miles / 1,750 feet gained / 1 night
After work backpack. Like we started hiking at 9pm and were in bed by 1am after lots of photos. Added elevation since I missed adding it to October 4th trek.
3.5 miles / 1,500 feet gained
Did a few miles up the Tilly Jane trail. The snow was easy to walk on until we hit the ridge about 1.5 miles up.
8.5 miles / 1,750 feet gained
Set out to help with two wildlife cameras. What a beautiful fall day. There were some great sets on the camera. Big bear, coyote and deer at the Elk Meadows cam, and up on Gnarl Ridge, we captured buck deer, bull elk, bobcat plus huge sets of juvenile bear and mountain lion footage. So exciting to see who lives in the forest! Will try to share some pics
4 miles / 0 feet gained / 1 night
Headed west of Timberline on the PCT past Little Zig Zag Canyon for a night under the stars, then explored in the morning.
5 miles / 1,500 feet gained
I haven't hiked as much this summer. But the gorge is still beautiful.
22 miles / 6,250 feet gained
Had 12 fabulous days in Sicily. We put in a lot of steps in the cities and ruins, and went on a few hikes. I even was able to go climbing for a day with a guide! Here are the hikes: 1) Pantalica- this is an ancient necropolis, located in the steep walls of a canyon, thought have been developed early in xxx BC by the Sicel peoples. Hundreds of rectangular roo...
11.7 miles / 1,500 feet gained
Great hike up to Deep Lake. The huckleberry foliage is beautiful right now.
3 miles / 750 feet gained / 1 night
After work night hike and Sunday afternoon cider party gave us a squeek of time to get under one of the last Milky Way cores before next spring. Not sure I'm ready for winter yet.
12.5 miles / 2,750 feet gained
Lovely alpine swimming lake, not too cold, I actually paddled around a bit. Frequent loud rockfall from up on the mountain. Bugs on the wane. Lots of meadows with huckleberries on the Riley Camp Trail.
3 miles / 500 feet gained / 1 night
A change of plans due to Covid. We did an easy hike from Timberline to get out for the night.
8 miles / 1,500 feet gained
The flowers are mostly gone in the meadows but we climbed up to the tarn and then scrambled up to the saddle and wandered around. Wonderful last day of August!
6.5 miles / 1,500 feet gained
In Hood River for the weekend with my honey. We hiked up to a little lake and enjoyed lunch with mountain views. Read, napped and sketched, Huckleberries ripe. Bugs were minimal.
4 miles / 1,750 feet gained
I wanted to try and get my altitude legs back so I drove with a friend and did a short but steep hike up above and a bit east Timberline Lodge. The bloom is mostly done, but the views were great of the area and down into White Rive Canyon.
17 miles / 5,000 feet gained / 2 nights
Also summited Granite & Trico while up at Robin Lakes.
26 miles / 7,250 feet gained / 2 nights
Visited several sites to monitor pikas. Was successful hearing many, seeing some, and even photographing a few individuals. Did two trips: 1) Clear Lost trail to Lost Lake lookout. The most amazing tent spot,and goat watching. 14.5 miles, 4000 ft gain. When I got done, I drove through Packwood and picked up some beer, then stayed the next night at Chambers L...
42.5 miles / 11,250 feet gained / 4 nights
My sixth time around and still rivers take a lot of time and thought. This is the first time I didn't have a family member with me, rather two friends. We worked together and had a great time. My husband joined us for the first very short 1.5 mile hike so we could get Milky Way shots and were able to see the Starlink Satellites.
22.5 miles / 7,500 feet gained / 2 nights
There were about 50 cars at the Phelps Creek Trailhead, but all were headed to Spider Gap and we only saw a few groups on our 3 day trip. Easy side scramble up to Carne Mountain. We saw a fire blow up down on Wenatchee Ridge. Menacing. The smoke came in and out the next two days, but the majority of it was blown eastward and skies were mostly clear. We campe...
8 miles / 1,000 feet gained
Did a lovely Covid recovery hike up to Heather Canyon and then bushwhacked a little ways up the creek. All the creeks are still really high on the mountain right now. And a ton of people today but wonderful
22 miles / 9,000 feet gained / 2 nights
Alpine adventure with a couple friends from climb school. We stayed two nights in Boston Basin. On day 2 we climbed Sharkfin Tower. On the third day, we went up over Sahale via Quien Sabe Glacier and down the other side to Sahale Arm. Rock climbing, glacier travel, lots of rapelling, plus goats, bears and marmots. Temps were prefect, no tent fly needed, shoo...
70.5 miles / 15,000 feet gained / 6 nights
Gorgeous, but hard trek on many unmaintained trails with a fair amount of rain.
7 miles / 1,500 feet gained
I signed up for a pika monitoring gig. This was the only day I had to visit the site this month. I knew it was a bad choice. Late start, and arrived as the heat of the day was turning from warm to hot. Pikas not likely to be active, but I did see sign and heard one peep.
14.5 miles / 9,000 feet gained / 2 nights
Climbed via the DC route. Since I am 61 summited the old man way with 1 night at camp Muir then a short 2nd day setting up camp at Ingraham Flats. Due to the hot weather snow was slushy which was a pain. Firmed up about 1000’ from the summit. I guess the freezing level was a bit over 17,000’. On Wednesday left camp at 11 pm and reached the summit at 3:30. We...
3 miles / 750 feet gained / 1 night
Started hiking at 9pm after a work day. The Milky Way was out. Saw trail runners finishing and they reported the Timberline Trail is open for business.
15.5 miles / 5,500 feet gained / 2 nights
Shuksan climb. We hiked in to Lake Ann which is still mostly frozen. Found running water just east of it, beautiful campsite. So much snow up here, including in one of the Fischer Chimneys. Took us longer than expected to ascend, but it was so beautiful! Our leader called it at the base of the summit pinnacle, concerned about getting back before dark. Well i...
15.4 miles / 3,000 feet gained
Great day hiking up the Herman Creek Trail through Cedar Swamp to the East Fork Crossing.
7 miles / 3,000 feet gained
8.5 miles / 2,000 feet gained
The bloom is on! I hiked up from Grouse Vista to the top, then came down and walked the ridge line north paralleling Ed's Trail to see the bloom out there. Beautiful!! Dead calm, so the bugs were out but not too bad. Excellent day with a great crew.
3.5 miles / 1,000 feet gained / 1 night
Quick night out after work. Hiking at dusk was outrageously gorgeous in all directions and the Milky Way was visible later in the night.
42 miles / 7,000 feet gained / 4 nights
Wallowas awesome! Hiked Washbaord Ridge and Bear Creek trail for a wonderful loop. Only saw one group back country on day 2. Fun ridges, steep meadows and rock gardens. Snow navigation in higher elevation, but fine summer weather to enjoy it. The meltout feels so alive. Bugs only noticeable at night. We are so fortunate!
4 miles / 2,000 feet gained
7.5 miles / 3,000 feet gained / 1 night
Everything was more perfect than we anticipated. A friend joined us, beautiful weather, no clouds, the Milky Way and best was spotting the Northern Lights over Hood River.
12.5 miles / 5,000 feet gained
2nd time this year, why? It did seem easier, but still it is a tedious hike. Will train elsewhere from now on.
8 miles / 3,000 feet gained
9.4 miles / 3,000 feet gained
Early morning outing to the red rock viewpoint up the PCT on the way to Benson Plateau. Marvelous
13.4 miles / 3,250 feet gained
Beautiful day but definitely an adventure. We parked at Multnomah Falls. 400 trail over to Oneonta. Amazing views of the upper gorge. Up to Franklin Ridge. Once we got into the burn on Franklin Ridge it was crazy amounts of six foot plus brush covering the trail. Once you start descending from the ridge it started clearing up. Then we took the Larch Mountain...
3.71 miles / 1,750 feet gained
3 miles / 1,750 feet gained
Fun climb. Escaped the heat. Got a little bit of everything- steep snow, rock climbing, rapelling, glissading and bushwacking! I would call that a perfect day.
8 miles / 2,500 feet gained / 1 night
Beautiful clear night, but in a sandstorm. We found a spot to tuck into out of the high winds and saw the entire Milky Way Arch. In the morning, we hiked up to Marmot Rock and then back down to White River. The TT has mounds of snow, but it's passable ~~ even by
12.2 miles / 3,500 feet gained
Fantastic five peak day. No snow on the trail except one small patch. The rhodies were blooming further down but the big rhodie alley is a few weeks away from bloom. Saw a geo cache up there for the first time and signed the summit register. Beautiful clear day!!!