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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Back-Story I had tried unsuccessfully 3 times to hike the High Divide loop this year. The first time I just got lazy and decided that a weekend at home sounded nice. The second time, my job at the last minute required me to be at home for some on-line training over the weekend. The …
Not sure of the dates. We’ll just say July 1st 1994. This is the only backpacking trip I ever got to go on with my nephew Jake before he died.