A long time dream of mine has been to hike the entire Wonderland Trail around Mt Rainier. Being a working guy with a family, it would be hard if next to impossible for me to take a large enough chunk of time to do the whole trail in one go. I don’t have the luxury …
This year, I won permits to the Enchantments. I entered 4 lottery tickets and won 2 sets of permits. One set of Snow Lakes zone permits and a one set of core permits. Unfortunately at the time I applied, I had forgotten that I would be in California at the Muir Trail Ranch during the …
On my family’s vacation to Kauai this year, I had my sights set on backpacking the Kalalau Trail that hugs the along the Na Pali coastline. I’ve been to Kauai 3 or 4 times now and every time I’ve gone I’ve had this trail on my mind. The last time we vacationed here, I brought …
My friend Steve from the Peninsula Wilderness Club had enquired a few times about the Ancient Lake hikes that I sometimes go on. For Steve and me, this trip was a long time coming. Since it gets very hot and dry, Ancient Lake is not usually a place one goes for a hike in the summer. This however …
On Labor Day weekend this year, I co-hosted a backpacking trip around Jack Mountain in the North Cascades / Pasayten Wilderness with fellow PWC club member Kevin Koski. Joining us on the trip was another friend and club member, Isaac Sun. Originally another group of people from Hawaii that saw the trip announcement on-line was going to join us but …
July 23-25 2011 On the weekend that I was supposed to hike the Chinook Pass to White Pass portion of the Pacific Crest Trail, I instead took advantage of space on a fellow Peninsula Wilderness Club member’s Enchantments permit. This year the snow has been excruciatingly slow to melt off and I figured it would …
I was supposed to do this trip on the previous weekend but since that was the 4th of July and I had priorities with family, I put it off until this weekend. I have hiked up the North Fork Skokomish countless times, either to do the Staircase Rapids loop or to go up to Flapjack …
On Friday the 22nd of April 2011, I drove to Eastern Washington after work to do a micro backpacking trip at Ancient Lake near Quincy. Ancient Lake is about 20 miles or so from the Gorge Amphitheater. The trail itself is only a couple miles and its a good thing because I didn’t arrive until …
After much anticipation, last weekend I finally got to do the Heather Creek, Deception and Royal Basins Traverse that Ancient Ambler wrote about in this trip report a few years back. I went with my friend Doug from the Peninsula Wilderness Club and we made a loop out of it. We left Silverdale around 8:30AM …
Last weekend I went on my first Kevin and Maria sponsored backpack with the Peninsula Wilderness Club. We headed up the West Cady Ridge trail in the Central Cascades off of Hwy 2 near Skykomish. I had a lot of fun on this trip and got to meet some new friends. The group consisted of …
Thru-Hiking the Goat Rocks Wilderness with Mike and Robbin August 14th – 16th The Dream: I have wanted to thru-hike the Goat Rocks for a long time now and I finally got a chance to this year. Accompanying me on this trip were my friends Mike and Robbin from the Kitsap Climbers Group. We drove …
Pacific Crest Trail Leavitt Lake to Sonora Pass August 20th – 21st 2008 It was to be a week of hiking in the Immigrant Wilderness section of the High Sierra and perhaps a day at Yosemite. The lure of an actual vacation, hanging out at Pinecrest Lake with the family was strong, so strong that …
Lakeshore Trail Lake Chelan Sawtooth Wilderness May 10th and 11th 2008 After a bowl of Raisin Bran at my hotel’s complimentary breakfast, my wife Dawn drove me the three minutes down to the Lady of the Lake ferry dock and said her goodbyes. I think she was almost as nervous as I was concerning what …
7 Miles RT – 1000′ Elevation Gain I decided to take Dawn to Lena Lake for an overnight trip. I told her all she had to bring was the tent and her sleeping bag, I would carry everything else. To make a long story short, It’s hard to keep the mosquitoes off of you when …
Took a backpacking trip up the North fork Skomish River to Camp Pleasant with my co-worker and friend Virgil Bryan.