Upcoming Hikes:

 I want to go!

When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your love, O Lord, supported me.

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Previous Hikes:

Big Quilcene River Trail to Marmot Pass
8 October 2012


Deer Ridge Trail
26 August 2012


Big Hump on the Duckabush Trail
28 July 2012


Mt. Zion Again
8 July 2012


Mt. Townsend Winter Storm
12 November 2011


Colonel Bob
24 September 2011


Mt. Zion
19 August 2011


Wonder Mountain Solo Attempt
2 - 3 July 2011


Four Little Hikes
22 June 2011


Putvin Trail (almost) to Lake of the Angels
4 June 2011


Lena Lakes Trail
1 May 2011


Slab Camp Trail
24 April 2011


Mount Zion
31 December 2010


Mount Townsend Snowshoe
26 December 2010


Mt Walker
20 November 2010


Fletcher Canyon
11 October 2010


Harrison Lake via the Tunnel Creek Trail
15 August 2010


Mount Townsend
26 July 2010


Mount Aix!
17 July 2010


Tubal Cain Trail - Tull's Canyon
11 July 2010


Mt Jupiter!
12 June 2010

A 14+ mile Spring Trainer?  Pure insanity...


Snoqualmie Pass Snowshoe
19 December 2009


Gifford Lakes Approach Backpack Recovery
5 November 2009

On November 4th 2009 a hiker/geocacher was seriously injured in a fall in the canyon below Gifford Lakes.  He was med-evac'd out leaving his gear behind.  Kevin (Ironman114) and I headed up to see if we could recover it...

Here's the newspaper article:
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Wonder Mountain Wilderness Lake 3995 Solo Trip
11 - 13 September 2009

A three day trek into the beautiful Wonder Mountain Wilderness.  No trails, no noise, no company.


Klone Lakes
23 August 2009

With the rope in hand, she stepped out onto the zero-footing hillside and her feet slid out hard from underneath her, dirt and rocks cascading into the valley far below...


Mount O'Neil Summit
2 August 2009

It took me two tries to make the summit.  Both times were overnighters and it was incredible!


Colonel Bob, East and West Summits
16 May & 27 June 2009

After being stymied by the snow on the 16th of May, I headed back up on the 27th of June to bag both summits…


Big Hump on the Duckabush Trail
22 November 2008

Nine peeps, two dogs, a little blood, and a broken fibula all for a moss covered hump.  Yes, it's all true.


Dream Lake

There's also the Dream Lake trip report / novella that I wrote for the geocache magazine Today's Cacher.


Yes, there's more.  I will be posing the rest of the hikes shortly.  It will take some effort to reconstruct them all, but they're all out there scattered all over the internet, so it's just a matter of finding them.


Because I am mad about women, I am mad about the hills
Said that wild old wicked man, who travels where God wills.

- Yeats

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