Pyramid and Ball Lakes

I had just been complicit in a six-hour hike with no food in the mountains with an eighty-year-old man.

Lake Stuart

I purchased overnight camping passes for the Lake Stuart Zone in the Enchantments area of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Washington state. It’s due east of Seattle and north of Mt. Rainier. It takes me 4 1/2 hours just to get to the trailhead, but I can’t help myself: it is so beautiful there. I’ve […]

On a trail again

On the trail is where I find my bliss.

Day hike in the Andes

Count them: five lakes in one day. Villarrica, Caburgua, Tinquilco, Chico, Del Toro.

Exploring Snow Lakes

The chipmunks and whiskey jacks mounted a joint attack force and my resistance was futile.

High in the mountains

Though marijuana use is now legal in both Oregon and Washington… this is the high I’m after.