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The Season’s Cycle: Endings and Returnings
As I settle in for our much-needed rainy season, I reflect on a busy, rewarding, (and hot) summer/early fall.
November 3, 2022
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As I settle in for our much-needed rainy season, I reflect on a busy, rewarding, (and hot) summer/early fall.
Valerie always feared that Big Blue would be the death of me. She worried that the gargantuan pack would make her a widow, afraid that she’d come around a bend in the trail to find me squashed like an ant, arms and legs splayed outward under the massive beast. It never happened, but I learned a few things along the way.
For the uninitiated, the Wonderland Trail encircling Mount Rainier consistently makes the “Ten Greatest, Most Awesome, Scenic, Challenging, Incredible Hikes in North America” lists in outdoor magazines and on websites.
When asked whether I could interview him, the old-timer quipped, “Well sure, but you’d better hurry. I’m 95 years old, you know.”
The release of Tahoma and Its People has triggered a happy lahar of unintended (and mostly terrific) consequences. Giving book talks via
At this time of year, I often get an itch that needs scratching: to hike the Wonderland Trail. Unable to hike the entire 93-mile loop this year, Dimitri and I day hiked the eastern portion from Fryingpan Creek to Box Canyon. Imagine our excitement to see three rare travelers on the trail!
“June-u-ary,” our late spring weather pattern of gray and gloom, is behind us, and high summer is upon us! So unfortunately, remains the coronavirus, tearing
Long-time Puget Sound residents are all too familiar with our annual gray and cloudy weather pattern leading up to high summer, known as
Valerie and I marked Day 50 of Governor Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order by staying hunkered down and hanging in there. Here are a
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