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Paradise park
Last Saturday my hiking buddy and I managed, somehow, to get up to Paradise Park on Mount Hood. I have a few photos to show – not as many as I’d like, for my battery went dead, and the hours grew...
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fall days
No rain and mild temperatures, and a short enough hike to encourage my husband to join me. Wonderful day, marred only by not-very-good Mexican food in Hood River afterwards. It wasn’t that the...
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first hike of the year, yippee!!
My hiking buddy & I went out today despite cloudy skies and threats of thunderstorms in the east Columbia River Gorge. We simply hiked closer in at Cape Horn, about 24 miles east of Vancouver,...
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as promised
the hike would deliver its promises the plateau looking west, on the way to the oaks & orchard with Rowena Plateau on the Oregon side lupines and scrub oak, western tangers & turkeys (heard...
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playing … catch up
22° halo Sunday’s hike was a try for views missed four years ago. In 2007 my hiking buddy & I got to the summit of Silver Star Mountain but with no view, no peek of steep cliffs, or five mountain...
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wordless Wednesday, remiss
silver star and wyeast Related posts: fall days playing … catch up as promised
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backcasting to the fingersmash hike
Three weeks ago my hiking buddy and I headed to the west side of Mt. St. Helens. (Remember the “What is that scat post?” Same hike). The misadventure was that we stopped in Cougar, Washington to use...
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Survey Results: How Do You Pee in the Woods?
Back in June I invited you and a few others, and anyone they wanted to invite, to participate in a non-scientific survey about peeing in the woods. 87 people showed up (most of them women) and shared...
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contradictory information
Bloomin’ Lily off the Timberline Trai So much for one of my fundamental points in my forthcoming essay. Or better said, there are always exceptions. Past experience told me that bloomin’ lilies, those...
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