Tagged: explore
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!
Catching Up: Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park

So, this was a very unintentional nearly 3-month hiatus, but alas, the human body does what it wants… Continue reading
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
While everyone was taking the chance to #optoutside – something I do every Black Friday due to my extreme dislike of large crowds of insane people – I decided to check out a local Wildlife Refuge just down the road from my place.
