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Odds and Ends
Various links to things to check out…some of these have been posted on our Twitter page and as well on our Facebook page. New section in The Bargain Bin, 2 colors of FBC Cozies on clearance (one not seen before, it is a short run). A look at sp...
New Recipes Up
Added two new recipes this afternoon to Trail Cooking. These were from an extensive set I came up with for our friends Tom and Tori on last summers thru-hike of the PCT. Chicken Veggie Rice and Veggie Beef Rice. Both recipes have triple instructions ...
Various Items
I saw this today on our local PNW hiking forum. If you live in Washington or want to hike here, take a look: “Hey guys, this past year I served as an AmeriCorps intern with the WA Department of Natural Resources in Ellensburg. As part of my i...
Circling Tahoma – In Search of Fall Colors
Weather wise there isn’t much better than right after the first snow storms of early October blow through – and the sun comes back. I woke up this morning before dawn and knew it was the day to do the ‘loop’ around Tahoma. Ste...
Recipe Re-Do: Pasta with Herbes de Provence
It is time for another of Sarah’s Recipe Re-Do’s, where she takes a solid, good sounding recipe and makes it over – to be more trail friendly and most of all? Easier! Today’s is a re-do of a recipe featured recently on another...
Links For The Week To Check Out
New recipes up on TrailCooking! Double Peanut Noodles – also featured on Justin’s Nut Butter website! Chocolate Energy Balls – no cook treat. Triple Chocolate Cherry Fudge – a high calorie treat for winter camping. Links to ch...
Only 16,500 Miles?
That is an impressive number of miles – nearly 17,000 miles to have walked in 17 years – Bart Smith completed all 11 of the National Scenic Trails in the US, ending at Ozette which sits on the Olympic National park coastline. Check out Ba...
Thinking of Fall
I was flipping through photos in iPhoto when I came across a set I took around this time of year, last year, up at Paradise. Right now the snow is swirling good this week. Snow levels have dropped to 4K and have been holding. Yet come end of the week...
Update ON FBC UL Cozy
We knew from the get go that the FBC UL Cozy would be a limited run – the silnylon material used is no longer manufactured. I cut the final set of cozies this morning and am finishing the run up currently. (Three of us with our UL’ers in...
Oz Hikers in Washington Video
I saw this entertaining video shot by a couple Aussies on their recent trip to Washington State. More details on their site here. ~Sarah...
Two Lakes I Had Longed For
There were a set of subalpine lakes I had long wanted to visit. I had tried a couple years ago and was turned back due to snow on the back side. Jared and I got talking on Thursday and when he heard the lakes had fish he said ‘lets go’. S...
The 12th Essential?
Yesterday morning HD, Jared and I set off for a half day hike. There is a trail that isn’t official that we wanted to rehike. All was going well until a couple miles from the trailhead on a very narrow and unmaintained Forest Service road HD...
What Is In Your Dayhiking Food Bag?
Is it a rarity – the day hiker who carries the means to have a hot meal and a nice break during the day? Out here in the Pacific Northwest I would say no – I often see people stopping for a mug of hot tea, a cup of soup and a hot lunch. M...
Monday in the Clouds
Woke up to what I could call a mostly free morning and Kirk encouraged me to head up into the mountains. I wasn’t sure where to go so I drove up into the clouds. Something told me to go to Sunrise at Rainier and who am I to ignore the luring so...
Current Day Pack Stats
I like to take a good look at my daypack twice a year – usually right before summer, when I can start lightening my load and then as we head towards fall, where I need to start thinking more about being prepped for nastier weather. I love dayhi...
On The Edge Of The Clearcuts – PCT Hiking
There sits an area that I love to hike, just South of where the long standing free for all clearcuts start on the PCT here in Washington. Our goal this morning was to hike in and kick back all day in a certain meadow waiting for thru’s to come ...
PCT Day In Cascade Locks
Saturday was PCT Day at Cascade Locks in Oregon, where the Bridge of the Gods resides. It is the divider between Oregon and Washington. Our good friends Tom and Tori paced themselves so they would be there for the celebration. Teresa (Dicentra), her ...
A Weekend Of Thru Hikers, Food and More
Hoosierdaddy had been asking if I would have the time to go and do trail angel-ing for PCT thru hikers this summer. He had injured his leg this month so isn’t able to hike real miles right now. I took him up on it this past weekend and we heade...
Trail Shots
A few more photos made it to me today from a couple good friends! Two shots of a Blue Camo Cozy in use, on Princess Royal Island, which is in British Columbia. Our good friend Mike recently got done with a multi week hiking/rafting trip there. To lea...
Weekend Ramblings
Kirk and I decided to have a weekend of easy hiking and relaxtion on our minds. Heading up from Bellingham, where we made our “base camp” (er…..um….I believe base camp even had a deluxe complimentry breakfast and a King Suite)...
Make sure you check this out
Bob Coomber, who many of us know as 4WheelBob, had a great clip on ABC Evening News tonight about his wheelchair hiking! The video: Freewheeling ‘Four-Wheel Bob’ Check it out ~Sarah...
Eunice Lake and A Meal Review
I was talking with Cat yesterday when I realized I had not been to Eunice Lake, which is in Mt. Rainier NP, since August of 2005. It was with Cat I had been there last. With the weather being cool this week doing a hike that doesn’t focus on mo...
Kautz Creek Ramblings
In the summer of 2005 my friend Drew invited me on a trip at Rainier. We did a loop of sorts, starting at the Kautz Creek Trailhead along the Nisqually Road. We left a second car at Longmire, where the Wonderland Trail touches. Off we went. The Kautz...
Random Trail Items….
New recipe up on Trailcooking! Spring Pasta Salad, an FBC friendly no cook meal that is also veg friendly! A couple photos my good friend Hoosierdaddy sent me this morning of his recent trip in the Goat Rocks Wilderness and near Mt. Adams. I was not...
White Lupine, A Hawk Fishing and Ice Cream on the PCT
This morning was the start of the heat wave that is expected to hit Washington State this week so what better than to run to the mountains, no? There was a slight chance of thunderstorms so we had sun but also clouds that cooled the air. Jeff joined ...
Earning Summerland’s Flower Show
The last time I was in Summerland was too many years ago I realized - while I have been back a couple times it has been too early in the season so I never get into the good stuff. I saw Summerland in the summer of 2004 when we did the Wonderland Trai...
Tiny Flowers In The Tundra Zone Along Tahoma
Ford and I got up early this morning to drive to Sunrise at Rainier (Tahoma). One to beat the heat, two to beat the crowds and three to beat the changing weather. Meadows full of Lupine with a view I always love: We headed to the Frozen Lake junctio...
A Few More Photos
A few more photos borrowed from Steve and Jared. Teresa in front, me in back crossing a section that was barely there this year: This section is worse this year than it was last year. Last year there was at least a path to walk on, though it was sti...
PCT Hiking - Big Crow Basin to Crystal
Continuing on from Part 1. Waking up in Big Crow Basin is a treat. Wide and open the sun slips up early, warming one up. Well, it did a bit but then finally the promised bad weather did come. Never bad though - as we were packing up a quick storm ble...
PCT Hiking - Gov’t Meadows to Big Crow Basin
This was a trip that I had promised my friend Steve we would finish - I had done it last year with Teresa and Jeff in a snowstorm but he had been unable to make it. We had waited since late October for the snows to melt. Rounding up Teresa to do it a...
