Category: Hikes
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Crater Lake and Rogue River Camping – August, 2013
In the middle of August we spent a week camping with my parents on the Rogue River in southern Oregon. We stayed at a campground that was my favorite as a child; many fond memories live there. I hadn’t been down that way since before we had kids – I took my husband there in…
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Thunder Creek Trail Hike and Camping at Newhalem
Summer has officially arrived here in Washington. It’s time to get out there and soak up as much of the mountains as we can before the gloom descends in the autumn and we have to wait 9 more months. We had some time to make a longer drive the Friday after the Fourth of July…
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Hoh Valley Hike – 6/11/13
I had an interview to do last week over on the Olympic Peninsula for an article I’m writing. I also had childcare arranged for a few days, so I took the time to camp overnight at the National Park Service campground near the Hoh Visitor Center. It was a long drive for a quick trip,…
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Gold Creek Snowshoe (Second Visit)
We had a chance to go snowshoeing with our friends last Friday, and we went to Gold Creek again. Cindy had knee replacement surgery just 8 weeks ago, and this was to be her first outing in the mountains since then. We had some other novice ladies with us, too, so it was good to…
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Washington Park, Anacortes – Trip Report
Sometimes we don’t really feel like hiking on a particular day. Sometimes we’re tired, we’ve been running from one thing to the next and the next with no room to breathe. We face a choice – continue to be busy and go hiking (with all the preparation and energy exertion that requires) or stay home,…
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Rattlesnake Ledge Trip Report
On Friday a week and a half ago we went on a hike up to a fabulous viewpoint called Rattlesnake Ledge. There are no rattlesnakes there or at the lake with the same name below. But you can see for miles on a clear day, and the hike is short. Our friend Jessie was able…
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Rainy Waterfall Hiking
This trip report is very overdue. This happened back in November, the day after Thanksgiving. I thought I’d put it up anyway to serve as a resource. We had a hike planned the week before. But when we woke up in the morning, one of my children was in tears at the thought of hiking.…
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Smithbrook Road Snowshoe
We have been experiencing an unusual and long-lasting inversion here in Puget Sound, causing cold, grey, still air to settle in the lowlands. Meanwhile, the sun shines in the mountains. We went up Friday to find the sunshine, and trek in the snow at the same time. Our friend Kirsten offered to drive us…
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Gold Creek Pond Snowshoe Trip Report
The kids have gotten noticeably stronger this year in their hiking abilities. We’ve also made some new hiking friends who hike in all seasons, and they invited us to come snowshoeing with them this winter. A Secret Santa has been leaving presents on our doorstep (a 12 days of Christmas theme) and one of the…
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Happy New Year!
It’s a New Year, with new ideas and new hopes and plans. It’s been pretty quiet in this space lately, as we focused on the holidays. I also took a writing class with Christina Katz from the end of October through Mid-December. Most of my writing energy went into that class instead of this blog,…