Anyone who has attempted to get permits for backcountry trails in the last few years knows how much harder it has become and that getting them can mean selecting dates that are either earlier or later than the season when you can count on things to be snow free or melted out. That was us…
The weather we have been having lately here in the Pacific Northwest has not been super motivating for getting up into the mountains, particularly with the avalanche conditions that come with new, wet snow. It reminds me of the time we were down along the Columbia Gorge in December and the forecast was nothing but…
A popular staple of hiker diets is the tortilla or wrap. Searching the internet, you will find many recipes and suggested meal plans that include this round, flat bread staple as a way to hold other foods but also to add calories. But what do you do if you are not eating bread or grains?…
What is that thing they say about karma? Last week, my adult son sent me this text message: Our local ski slopes had opened up for the season and he had preemptively taken off a few days from work. Just like his mom, he wasn’t going to wait around for friends with the…
Have you heard of a thing called a living tree stump? In 2008, my son Mitch and I took a road trip to Southern California for two weeks to visit Legoland. Along the way we took a swing east and drove through Crater Lake and down to Ashland. Crater Lake Highway or State Route 62…
There is nothing like the holidays and end of the year for reflection. As I have been sorting through thousands of images to re-upload to the website, I ran across these pictures from three years ago of my family at Christmas during the height of COVID. We had decided to not celebrate…