Category: Outdoorsy stuff
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February 20, 2023 – Walk to Natural Well
This morning the dogs and I walked to Natural Well, a 186 foot pit that’s popular to rappel. I used to rappel it but haven’t in about ten years. There’s a bunch of fallen rock at the bottom and it’s drippy, especially with as much rain as we’ve had this winter. There’s passage at the…
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February 9, 2023 – Monte Sano State Park, AL
My dawgs and I are staying at a cabin in Monte Sano State Park for two nights. The park ran a buy-one-get-one night special so here we are. We did this last February too. The cabins and some other structures in the park were built during the 1930s by the CCC. This morning we went…
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May 27, 2022 – Mt Rainier National Park
Took a walk around the Longmire area where some of the park employees live. It’s an historic section of the area with rustic buildings and a wooden trestle supporting a bridge across the river. Later, drove back to Portland today but before leaving the park, walked an hour on Kautz Creek Trail. Hate to leave…
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May 25, 2022 – Mt Rainier National Park
Drove 12 miles up to the Paradise area of Mt Rainier NationaI Park. At 5400 feet elevation it was snowy. It’s another 9000 ft to the top of Mt Rainier. I had intended to hike but couldn’t make much progress in just hiking shoes. The top of Mt Rainier was buried in clouds and snow.…
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May 24, 2022 – Mt Rainier National Park
Drove to Mt Rainier National Park this morning. Staying at the National Park Inn in the Longmire area. Did two short hikes, one on the Wonderland Trail. The woods here are gorgeous. There are tall, old conifers, moss everywhere, the whitewater of Nisqually River, and where the clouds break, a view of the snowy lower…
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