Dearest Gentle Reader, As the last day of 2025 comes to end, I want to send you well wishes and warm thoughts as we say good-bye to all that was the old year and welcome a new one on the horizon. If you are reading this, you can count yourself as blessed to have made…
Category: National Parks/Public Lands
Three Days In The San Juan Islands: Day 3 At Lime Kiln Point State Park, Roche Harbor and The Pig War
You will find Day 1 of our San Juan Island trip here: Three Days In The San Juan Islands: Day 1 And Iceberg Point. San Juan County Park Our goal for Saturday morning was to ride our bikes the less than 3 miles to Lime Kiln Point State Park and hike for first part of…
The High Divide And Seven Lakes Basin Redux: Day 4
This is a short series on my backpacking trip on the High Divide and Seven Lakes Basin in Olympic National Park. If you are reading this post in its entirety on any website other than musthikemusteat.com, it was stolen without permission. For my final day of the High Divide and Seven Lakes Basin…
The High Divide And Seven Lakes Basin Redux: Day 3
This is a short series on my backpacking trip on the High Divide and Seven Lakes Basin in Olympic National Park. If you are reading this post in its entirety on any website other than musthikemusteat.com, it was stolen without permission. Up again at 5am with the sun, the day promised a few…
The High Divide And Seven Lakes Basin Redux: Day 2
This is a short series on my backpacking trip on the High Divide and Seven Lakes Basin in Olympic National Park. On Day 2, I was up and making breakfast at 5am in the dark. I had some Paleo Crack-lin’ No Bran and coconut milk powder which I supplemented with wild huckleberries around my camp….
The High Divide And Seven Lakes Basin Redux: Day 1
Last August I wrote about visiting Olympic National Park and the Seven Lakes Basin in 2023 after years of having it on my bucket list. I shared about how the weather was less than ideal and so I had minimal views for the three days I hiked the loop. In my 2024 outdoor…






