My Health Adventure
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Backpacking to Silver Lake
August without any smoke in the sky is the time to go high in the Olympics. Snow is pretty much melted away, and the days are warm and the nights are just pleasant. I hiked to Silver Lake last year for a day hike (Fantastic Day Hike!), but wanted to stay the night and then…
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Grand Lake, Olympic National Park
I took a few days off work in order to go hiking with my son up in the Olympic Mountains. We went to a new spot called Grand Lake, which neither of us had visited. It is within the national park and requires a wilderness overnight permit which can be purchased at recreation.gov. The difficult…
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Naches Peak Trail Loop, again!
It’s July and my family spent a weekend up near Chinook Pass, and after everyone left and I finished my cleanup chores, I drove up to the pass for another dose of my favorite hike: Naches Peak Loop! It’s my go-to hike for July because of a number of factors. First the snow pack is…
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Mount Townsend
It was a moody Juneteenth in the Olympics, with a marine layer just hanging out over the mountains and hiding them from view. I organized a hike with folks from work and over ten people participated, many hiking up into the Eastern Olympics for the first time. I was excited for them but was worried…
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The Snow is Melting
I am excited about the summer! In Washington State, the first sign of impending adventure is the opening of the mountain passes. Chinook Pass to be specific and the road to some of my favorite destinations is open as of Memorial Day Weekend! We spent some time in the mountains and traversed the pass finding…
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Dosewallips, Olympic National Park
The first backpacking trip of the year was a great success! I was able to invite folks from work for a first overnight hiking trip for 3 of 4 of them, and get all my gear out and put it to use! We had a great time, and this particular part of Olympic National Park…
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Hiking in the wilderness
What activities do you lose yourself in? I always thought Groundhog Day was a pretty funny movie, until I actually considered the reality of it. Every day is another repeat… wash, rinse, spin over and over and over and over. For the characters in the original movie, obsession with getting a relationship right was not…
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No
Do you trust your instincts? My first thought when I saw this prompt was to answer yes: I follow my instincts all the time. I feel like my work day is full of this dynamic: I have a feeling, then I act on it and make the right call. I have a conversation with a…
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Iceland is Awesome
In July of 2023, I was plotting my travel back to Seattle from Spain after leaving my son there for a semester abroad. We had developed an epic plan involving flights to London, the Chunnel, Paris, Bordeaux, and then an afternoon stop in Hendaye, and a train to Donastia, where he would be staying and…
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