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Iceberg Lake....one of two on Mt. Adams and both are hard to find! There is an iceberg lake on both the north and south side and they are...

Mount Hood is such a varied and wonderful place to hike. We frequently find ourselves up on her. Nova and I backpacked up to this stone...

This was a history hike! We were in Eastern Washington. While on this trail, we got to visit the site of several homesteads from the...

What can be better than sunset over Mt. St. Helens? We had done a long day of hiking through old growth forests along a beautiful river....

I love sunflowers. BalsamRoot Flowers are very similar. So when that flower season hits in April and May, we search the best unknown...

This was my bonus birthday hike. I had taken off for the weekend to go out to the Oregon coast with Nova. We did 2 days of hiking in cold...

There is a wonderful waterfall hike up near Carson, Washington that is often crowded in the summer months. We had decided to snowshoe up...

This was on the infamous Eagle Creek trail in the Columbia River Gorge. It had been closed for years after the terrible wild fires there....

Nova and I have hiked up and down the Columbia River Gorge on almost every trail…the well-known and the unknown. But there was one we...

One of the bucket list hikes I had for 2022 was up on Mt. Adams. I had climbed up the North side in 2021 and found a magical place with...

Josie in her element! After all our hot summer hikes, I had promised that Wolf that snow hikes would be coming and I had to keep my word...

Fall hiking at its best! Most every October or November I have to find myself up on Mt. Adams. She calls to me like no other mountain!...

This was a bucket list hike for me. Last year I had hiked up to McNeil Point Shelter on Mt. Hood. This is one of only 3 stone shelters...

I had a plan to sleep in a giant fractured egg. Yes, you heard that right. So twice before I have hiked to a magical area on the side of...

You win some and you lose some. That is always what I think about this particular August hike. I had read about another lookout tower....

Okay, for those of you who remember last year’s February 2021 post, you may remember my story of that waterfall snow hike I did where...

March was a bit of a terrible month for me. It started out when I was rear-ended while just sitting at a stoplight on my way to work one...

Okay, I know, these photos are a little strange. But what you have to understand is that I had read about a place where you can hike to...

April showers bring May flowers!! This is at least an annual hike for me, if not biannual. It is located on the east side of the Gorge...

I had to go with photos from two hikes for June. These were Josie’s first and second hikes ever……let the adventures begin!! In fact if...