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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Surfing is hard…
Clearly, there are a lot of activities that are difficult to start in your 50s and one of them is surfing. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with balancing on everything from a skateboard to skis and now I can add a surfboard to that list. Ever since I was a child, I’ve had…
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The North Skokomish River, Staircase, Olympic National Park
Backpacking is an adventure that forces you to utilize an entire toolbox of skills in order to have a memorable event. Not only do you have to be in good shape, with stamina for long haul activity, but you need to understand and be able to implement survival skills, planning, and gear use to avoid…
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Hiking
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? Of all the activities that bring life to my soul and elevate my mood, hiking is number one. The combination of physical activity, nature in raw form, and time to myself really revitalizes me. For leisure activity, this is the perfect mix of results. Winter is the…
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To Banff and back again…
Think back on your most memorable road trip. My favorite road trip of all time was back in the summer of 2016 when I decided to take my two teenagers on a significant adventure. During the spring, we reviewed lots of options. We came up with Banff National Park in Canada as our midpoint destination.…
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