There are a lot of great Pacific Northwest hiking guidebooks out there, no shortage for sure. But if you have been around MustHikeMustEat.com for a while now, you will have heard me talk about one of my very first hike guide books, Hiking Snohomish County by Ken Wilcox. Yes, I live in Snohomish County and…
In case you do not follow Cascade PBS, they recently shared the latest Nick On The Rocks episode all about the geological history of Beacon Rock which towers on the Washington State side of the Columbia River Gorge. There is great aerial footage of the 800 foot cinder cone and of course, Nick…
In 2021, I joined a book club organized by James Edward Mills through his Joy Tripp Project. I had begun following James after reading his book, The Adventure Gap, and when he announced he was going to have a book club with authors writing about topics related to the outdoors and then having discussions with…
I’m not sure that title could get much longer… Do I know how to cram a lot into a road trip or what? Yes, we were in the United Kingdom for 10 days and we saw about as much as one could hope to see of the country in such a short time. And as…
One of the reasons I love living in Washington State is the wide range of weekend getaways that you can find all over the state for whatever mood you might be in. This was one we did when my husband injured his meniscus during a search and rescue training exercise. His hobbled pace lowered our expectations…
It is 2019 and time to look forward to what I want to get out of my time outdoors and on public lands this shiny new year. The older and hopefully wiser I get with each passing year, taking time to make a list and plan out where I long to go and what I…