Return to the mountains

The trailhead is at about 4000 feet elevation and we climbed about 1700 feet that day in only 4.5 miles.

Into the smoke and out again

My brother told me that the skies over Montana have been swathed in wildfire smoke for a long time.

Hummocks Trail

All this beauty before me sprung out from that poor beginning.

Mirror Lake: The scenes I missed

In December I hiked to Mirror Lake and Tom Dick and Harry Mountain for the first time. Though the whole region was sunny that day, there was a little microclimate engulfing our local volcano, Mt. Hood. Snow actually fell during the hike. At the summit of the mountain, I was told that it is typically […]

Old Snowy Mountain and Goat Lake

Well, on the way we realized we were in Argentina, when we spotted the llamas.