There may be a few times a year I get dressed up and go out on the town with the girls (as in go to dinner and karaoke) but more often than not, when I say I’m going out with my girls, it means OUTDOORS. I talked about the great group of hiking…
Category: Hikes and Stories
Carolyn Ravensong Burkhart
One of my favorite memories from our work party to Hart’s Pass in September will have to be meeting the first woman to hike the Pacific Crest Trail solo. Her trail name is Ravensong and she hiked the PCT in 1976. In fact, she finished exactly on my 6th birthday! She was one of 12…
Anticlimatic
The storm of the century turned out to be all talk and media hype and not much action but heeding the call of safety I stayed close to home this weekend. I even brought in the garbage cans and picked the last of the raspberries in preparation. I made it out for a movie (can’t…
Who Is Your Trail BFF?
For those of you who read through my account of our Eagle Cap Wilderness adventure, you know that during our off trail experience I made a note that my altimeter watch failed me, indicating a low battery. Although, it seemed to be working fine right AFTER that trip, there are have been several times later…
And That’s A Wrap: Oregon PCT 2016
I just realized I never really did a blog post on my section hike of the Oregon PCT this summer. I did write up my trip report over on Trail Journals but I thought I would put a little synopsis down here, along with some videos I took. I can sum up this trip in…
Ups and Downs
So I am back to work and I am really feeling the slow down of sitting at a desk and not being connected with nature. Sure, I am getting out on the weekends (and the disarray in my house testifies to that) but this is when I really get to missing those long walks in…