This was an event I sponsored last October for my hiking club – the Peninsula Wilderness Club. A lot of the events my club puts on are really close to home, which usually means the Olympic Mountains so I was excited to find out that there was 11 of us on this particular outing to …
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 …
I took a hike with my friends Ron and Tess up to Blue Mountain on the Deer Ridge Trail. The day started out rainy as I left my house and the weather didn’t look too promising. I met Ron and Tess and Paul at the park and ride on the Port Townsend turnoff on Hwy …
I’ve broken this report up into 3 different posts. Part 1 is of my hike at Munra Point in the Gorge and for me is symbolically the beginning of my trip even though the Gorge is like 3 hours from where I live in Silverdale Washington. Part 2 is all about the road trip. The route I …
I’ve broken this report up into 3 different posts. This part, part 1 is of my hike at Munra Point in the Gorge and for me is symbolically the beginning of my trip, even though the Gorge is like 3 hours from where I live in Silverdale Washington and not really anywhere near SE Oregon. …
Taking advantage of a break in the weather, I headed out once again to do the Ozette loop on the Washington Coast. My primary mission was to arrive kind of late and photograph the sunset, but truth be told, I was feeling rather un-inspired this trip and skipped the sunset. The loop consists of two …
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 …
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 …
Took a drive up to Hurricane Ridge.
16 Miles RT – 500′ Elevation Gain It was to be a hike across the Olympics, but due to Dawn’s blisters we didn’t make it too far. The picture below is the only one we got as a group.
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.
Couple pictures from a climb by my friend Mike Shauer and I of Mt Washington in the Olympic Mountains. Not sure of the exact date but we attempted this climb on more than one occasion. We finally made it to the top this trip. Not too many pictures. We’ll just say August 1 1994.
As with most hikes this far back, I am unsure of the exact date. We’ll just say July 1 1994. Note the cotton pants, shirt and jacket I’m wearing in the photo.