I have a mental bucket list of hikes and snowshoes I want to do in my lifetime with a snowshoe loop around Crater Lake being one of them. Ever since hiking to this national park on the Pacific Crest Trail, I always said I would come back to do a circumnavigation during the winter months….
Jump to the recipe… Can we just put it out there now that this was been one heck of a weird year? Back in June, it was time to decide what to do for my husband’s birthday. The last two years I had taken him to Stehekin, one of my favorite places in Washington. But…
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…
We had only been driving in the car about 20 minutes when I went to pull my phone out of my purse to check something. Rummaging around, I realized it wasn’t there. I didn’t have my phone and I was going away for the weekend. My friend Elle and I signed up for a talk…
I bet if you ask anyone who has hiked the Pacific Crest Trail through Oregon if they made time to stop and visit the Dee Wright Observatory while crossing the summit of the McKenzie Highway through the Willamette National Forest, you will most like get a blank stare. The what? I imagine if you ask…
Thinking about my most memorable water experience on public lands reminds me of the time Elizabeth and I woke up at 4:15am knowing the day would test both our fortitude and quite possibly our friendship and donned our headlamps. We loaded our packs and headed down to the creek to fill up on water. After…