I was so excited to come home today and see my latest delivery from Thrive Market on the front porch a day early! I had realized that I had used up the last of my 100% cacoa powder stash on Saturday and placed an order, luckily before this whole business of sheltering-in-place happened. And as…
Author: Shannon Leader
Do You Have A Favorite Outdoor Brain Worm?
In a post I wrote last year, Maybe We Need A Few More Tourists on Public Lands, I mentioned hiking behind a young couple in bright yellow rainsuits who spontaneously began singing in a joy filled moment along the Spruce Trail in the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park. Have you ever had that happen…
Dilly Lemon Roasted Veggie Collagen Bars and A Cooper Spur Snowshoe At Mount Hood
Jump to the recipe… It is a real-to-goodness recipe!!! Maybe this stuck-at-home thing will pay off… Silently sneaking by a few weeks ago, we celebrated our second anniversary. Wahoo, #2! We took advantage of a kid-free weekend without sports to venture out for a trip to the Columbia River Gorge for a stay to…
10 Important Steps To Getting Outdoors In The Time Of A Pandemic
This will be as close to a COVID-19 post as you are going to find here on Must Hike Must Eat. Having been out on local trails in the last week, it is clear that quite a few people are not taking this whole pandemic things seriously. This is not about being panicked, it is…
My 6 Day Adventure Hiking The Wonderland Trail-Day 6
Summerland And Bust I had to sit down to write about our last day on the trail multiple times and I am not sure why it was so hard. I guess because the end turned out to be rather anticlimactic. Sorry if anyone was holding their breath. It must have rained off and on through…
My 6 Day Adventure Hiking The Wonderland Trail-Day 5
Reflection Lakes With another 16+ miles to do today, we were up and hiking by 5am with headlamps on briefly as we made our way along the trail and road towards Narada Falls. The falls are not directly on the Wonderland, so I walked up the side trail enough to be able to see it….