8 miles / 1,000 feet gained
Wanted to try out the new bridge over Burnside. Moving slow, really struggling with my asthma these days. Took over an hour for bronchospasm to subside.
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3 miles / 750 feet gained
I'm helping with another wildlife cam. Today was maintenance day. Got some great shots of the elusive Sierra Nevada Red Fox, one of our target species. Will post pics soon. Fun to snowshoe again! See video link attached!
8.5 miles / 1,500 feet gained
My old stomping grounds. Did a loop with the section 36, Powder House and TNT trail.
4 miles / 750 feet gained
Fambligations have been keeping me close to home. Chilly day. Wandering amongst the relics. Postholing through thigh deep maple leaves and zigzagging through devils club stalks can be fun if you have no particular agenda.
7.5 miles / 750 feet gained
4 miles / 1,000 feet gained
I brought my bike and rode the new section of the bikepath between Wyeth and Starvation Creek. It is a lovely addition to our gorge. Much of it is like the old highway with stonework walls, little alcoves plus artful placements of giant chunks of hexagonal basalt column. The viaducts are cool too. The only thing I don't care for is the roar of 84, so I would...
6 miles / 500 feet gained
Misty day in the woods. A group of volunteers was actually raking the Wildwood!
11 miles / 3,500 feet gained
Came up via Cathedral Ridge. Snow on the TT, but easy travel with microspikes. Gorgeous day, I was the only one out there.
10 miles / 1,500 feet gained
With that wind, I decided today was a day to stay in the woods. Fun wanderings. Heard the wind roaring above me up in the canopy, but I was warm and dry in the duff below. Traveled along the western edge of the gorge fire for a bit. Found out what happens to frozen chanterelles ( they turn to soggy mush). Many of the old roads on the Bridal Veil Plateau have...
14.5 miles / 4,250 feet gained
Not supposed to do this in the snow. We're idiots. Broke trail from Boot Lake all the way over to Whittier. Some really sketchy sections on the traverse. Glorious day.
8 miles / 2,750 feet gained
Biked from Bass Lake to the old parking area near Aldrich Butte-avoided all those dull miles from the Bonneville TH. Went around Aldrich and up over Cedar to the PCT. The trails around Cedar mountain are overgrown, not used much these days because of the access issues. Only saw 4 people near the end on the PCT.
12.5 miles / 3,500 feet gained
Ridiculous bushwack from way down below. Beautiful day. We found an old trail. Walked out in the dark, but luckily made it to a road by dusk.
16.5 miles / 6,500 feet gained / 1 night
Did this as a shuttle trip with two long-legged friends. We approached from the north via Doctor Creek and camped above Ruth Lake. The weather came in and we fretted all night in our tents with blustery winds and rain wondering about the possibility of continuing on. Lucky us, we awoke to blue skies and decided to go for it despite the fierce wind gusts. Aft...
45 miles / 7,000 feet gained / 3 nights
This was plan B. We were planning to go to the Wallowas, but forecast was terrible. This was a lovely, mellow trip. Warm nights for camping and no navigation challenges, just a leisurely stroll upstream for four days!
14.5 miles / 4,250 feet gained / 2 nights
I was all packed up for a climb in the North Cascades, when the forecast turned (again!) and our trip was cancelled. The leader had proposed an alternative peak bagging type trip in the Chiwawa area, and all the pictures were so tantalizing, I decided to go. In the end, no one else was interested so this was another solo. The Trinity parking lot was overflow...
13 miles / 3,000 feet gained
Started low and found some chanterelles. Once I got up to the Bluff mountain trail, I had the slowest mile ever: collected 4 quarts of huckleberries. Ate plenty too!
7 miles / 3,000 feet gained
Went out on the glacier with rope team and wandered. Surreal. There is a cave, but we didnt get close. We found what looked like a piece of landing gear. We found later that last January there was a plane crash up here. SAR came up and found the guy and hauled out most of the plane parts, but missed this bit.
13.5 miles / 750 feet gained / 2 nights
Spent a few days enjoying Mother Nature's beautiful sculptural works at her most glorious museum! Sea lions, eagles, otters, kingfisher, mergansers and the distant spout of a whale. Hour long sunset, mesmerizing tidal flow, seastacks and waves.
18 miles / 3,500 feet gained / 1 night
My Black Peak climb was cancelled, and I had 10 days off! What to do...... It looked like the earliest weather clearing was actually on the Olympic Peninsula, so I headed up there instead. Still had to wait out some rainshowers the first day, so I stayed at Lake Quinault for a night and explored around the lake on Sunday. On Monday, I headed up the W Fork of...
37.5 miles / 11,750 feet gained / 3 nights
Oh my, this area is so beautiful! White Pass covered in wildflowers and marmots. Whitechuck Basin otherworldly with green lakes and massive erratic boulders below a rapidly receding glacier. We had some weather challenges on the approach,but summit day was perfect!
14.5 miles / 4,000 feet gained / 1 night
What a lovely climb! I did this with my son's outdoor club Post 58(although he wasnt on this climb). One of the assistants had to cancel, so I volunteered to fill in. Fun to adventure with a bunch of teenagers with climbing skills and enthusiasm for the great outdoors. Conditions perfect- masses of butterflies on top.
7 miles / 3,500 feet gained
In the Julian Alps of Slovenia. Fun and very challenging hike using the via ferrata. After hiking up to a massive hole in the mountain called the "Prisank window#1", there was a long airy scramble on the ridge to gain the summit. In spots where the exposure was frightening, they have pegs and cables to clip into. I did this as a loop and the downclimb throug...
6 miles / 1,000 feet gained
On our way to the idyllic hut Postarski Dom, where we stayed for two nights. We hiked up an old road built by Russian POWs during WW1.
7 miles / 250 feet gained
This was supposed be the beginning of a hut to hut trip, starting in the resort town of Kranjska Gora, traveling though some villages then up Planina valley to Tamar Dom. An hour into our trip the thunderclouds appeared as we were walking through some farm fields. We took refuge in a chicken shack for some family bonding as the torrent raged. After it subsid...
7 miles / 3,250 feet gained
First hike in the Julian Alps of Slovenia! We stayed in the idyllic town of Dresniza and this was the mountain above it.Started at 0500 and had solitude until I was almost back to the TH. Ruins of military bunkers from WW1 near the top.
21.5 miles / 7,250 feet gained / 2 nights
This one was a doozy! Turned my ankle on the way to basecamp. It was wobbly the rest of the weekend, stressful, but it held up. Really enjoyed my two nights in the tent. Beautiful forest, it never got cold, bugs minimal. Fun climb, and....I saw a baby goat!
7 miles / 750 feet gained
Joyful, but the FP trails are almost at the concrete stage again.
7.5 miles / 2,500 feet gained
You start a bit lower than Grouse Vista, but this old road is not as rocky as the GV trail. I scrambled up to the Vision Quest pits then cut over to the south summit of Silver Star. The goat was waiting for me at the top. She then moved a bit downhill and I observed her foraging as I ate my lunch. No-one else around for 45 minutes. When another pair of hiker...
4.5 miles / 1,500 feet gained
Friends visiting from east coast. I tried to convince them to camp in a tent, but instead we stayed at fancy vacation home at Black Butte Ranch. I took them up the local volcano. Did great despite the hangovers!
9.5 miles / 1,750 feet gained
Trail finding skills challenged today. Wasnt expecting so much snow. Pretty persistent above 5000 ft. Did not see another human is six hours and it's Memorial Day.
8 miles / 1,500 feet gained
Just had half a day, it was raining and there was no-one around. Forest was intoxicating.
9 miles / 2,000 feet gained
Did the loop starting from the campground plus a few other forays. Hoping for morel bounty, but just found a few.
12 miles / 5,750 feet gained
On a Mazama trip. Because of the soft snow reports, we decided to do a midnight start for firmer conditions.The sunrise was beautiful at 0500, then the weather turned and was miserable the rest of the trip. We persisted and summited in a whiteout. Going down we were facing into the wind and got pummeled by horizontal ice pellets. Type 2 fun!
26 miles / 5,500 feet gained / 1 night
First time on this side of the mountain in over 20 years. I parked at the Carbon River gate and biked up to the Ipsut Campground. So lovely! set up my campsite and hiked up the Wonderland to see the Carbon Glacier, a really cool suspension bridge and some goats. 9 miles, 1500 ft eg. The next morning, I zoomed down to the gate, put away my bike, changed out g...
5.5 miles / 1,250 feet gained / 1 night
Finally got to spend the night in a tent! Gorgeous day and night. Had fun scrambling in the hills. We found an old homestead and a waterfall.
7 miles / 1,500 feet gained
Got to do one of my favorite types of adventure-the bike shuttle! Hid my bike at Bridge of the Gods and drove to Herman Creek TH, hiked Herman Creek to PCT, stopping at Dry Creek Falls. On the bike back through town, I stopped at the Easyclimb mountain bike park and looped around on the easy trails, fun!
7.5 miles / 2,000 feet gained
Spent the day at Horsethief yesterday, so team was tired. We cut our plans in half, started at 0730,finished at 1030 and were back in PDX by noon!
9.5 miles / 1,750 feet gained
Our goal was Aldrich Butte, but it was raining so hard, we got soaked and turned around at the Two Chiefs Trail.
6 miles / 1,750 feet gained
We hiked up and down the climbers trail a few times, but for me there was a lot of standing around occasionally directing the students.