Tagged: Adventure
Washington State: Western vs. Eastern
Here’s something interesting for you: many people think the Pacific Northwest is only the territory from western Oregon up through western Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s not. The Pacific Northwest, AKA: PNW, covers Washington, Oregon, B.C., Idaho, and parts of Montana and California and Alaska.
Western Washington – pretty green with lots of trees
Eastern Washington – kind of like Kansas
Fourth of July: North Cascades National Park
Spent the long “traitorous colonials” (aka: Independence Day) weekend with my best friend, her hubs, and their two small humans camping out in North Cascades National Park. There were camp fires, roasted marshmallow stuffed Reese’s (because this Celiac improvises with candy for Graham Crackers, haha!), bugs with little people, hiking and boat rides. ‘Merica!
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Diablo Lake
Blue Lake
Blue Lake
The only time I willingly allow bugs in my tent is when a little Heathen happens to be sharing it with me. All little kids should play with bugs 🙂
Ranger Falls
These falls…oh, so much more I could have scrambled, but I left Angsty Teenager and the Greekanese at the trailhead by a stream and decided it would be rude to bail on them for more than an hour 🙂
Green Lake – I will see you soon.
High Steel Bridge and Thunder Creek Trail
As I get older, I find I have a ridiculous appreciation for bridges. Maybe it’s not overly ridiculous to be glad that people decided to make access to other areas easier, but it still can seem a little strange. Having previously taken for granted the skills each generation has used to build a bridge, be it steel or wood, I’d just like to send a little shout out to those magnificent bridge builders of past and present – THANK YOU!
Wooden Bridge connecting the Thunder Creek Trail System – North Cascades National Park
The single-lane steel and concrete High Steel Bridge located in Olympic National Forest. The bridge was built in 1929 and is 420-feet / 120-meters high
View of the Skokomish River and part of the steel supports of High Steel Bridge. Note the size of the evergreen trees and likely size of the river when you’re 420-feet / 120-meters up!
An Unplanned Adventure: Mount Baker
I had this great plan for getting up super early, pre-dawn-style, hopping a ferry over to the Olympic Peninsula and adventuring through a trail system along a lake. That didn’t so much happen.
Colorado: Two Hikes and a Setback
Colorado is beautiful, amazing, fantastic, gorgeous, and amazeballs (to steal the young people’s terminology). Continue reading
When the Universe Trumps Your Wishes: Minnesota
I got trumped by the universe. And that’s OK!
Fantastic Scramble: I HATE Summer
Technically it’s not yet summer. It is, according to the universe and its calendar, still spring. You could have fooled me.
Rustic Cabin: No Electricity, No Running Water, and T Smithers Makes Fire!
Wineberry Cabin
If you were to ask my mother what her version of “camping” or “roughing it” is, she’d tell you it’s renting a room at the Holiday Inn (American ones aren’t necessarily as nice as European ones). I, on the other hand, would tell you it’s being out amongst nature or staying in a rustic or “primitive” cabin in the middle of winter.
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An Unexpectedly Adventurous Weekend
It is a well established fact that I am a procrastinator. I work really well under pressure (though you wouldn’t know it by the fact I look three shades of bat-shit crazy when it happens) Continue reading
