Friday, 14 July 2023 Over the years, certain events have emerged as icons linked to a given National Park: Think bouncing on the back of...

Wednesday, 12 July 2023, Puyallup WA It always feels bittersweet to end a great adventure. Temps were still moderate when I arose, no...

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the...

Just because it's not what you were expecting, doesn't mean it's not everything you need right now. - Paulo Coelho Monday, 10 July 2023,...

Sunday, 09 July 2023, Bonney Lake WA After the incredible hike yesterday, I felt energized, full of vigor. Yes, I was ready to tackle one...

The sublimity of true mountain scenery in the Cascade Mountains ... must be seen, it cannot be described. Nowhere do the mountain masses...

Friday, 07 July 2023, Burlington WA North Cascades is unique among the National Parks in that Congress legislated a National Park Complex...

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. - Joan Didion Thursday, 06 July 2023, in transition While I...

Wednesday, 05 July 2023, Olympic Peninsula Sitting here at Swan Bay of Lake Ozette, only two miles or so off Washington's far northwest...

Tuesday, 4 July 2023, Olympic Peninsula, WA Let me begin with a mea culpa for the blatant error I published in my last blog post, Too Old...

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything — even if you have no clue what you're doing. - Jessica Alba 1 July...

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. — Henry Miller Notes from a few weeks ago, at Marsh Creek Lake......

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu Colorado NM/Fruita, Tuesday 23 May 2023 One more day for...

Canyonlands NP, Monday 22 May 2023 Fruita, CO - home of my nephew - lies 90 minutes east of the two western Utah parks. The whole region...

Arches NP, Monday, 22 May 2023 Oh, man. How could I possibly hope to follow up on the incredible Cataract Canyon whitewater trip? How...

Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little living...

Canyonlands NP, day 4. A subdued mood affected us all as the day started, with little conversation as we ate breakfast. We all knew...

Canyonlands NP, day 3. Ahh, sitting on the river beach, my feet caressed by cold river waves, sipping an ice-cold soda (a rarity for me),...

Wherever we look, there is but a wilderness of rocks; deep gorges, where the rivers are lost below cliffs and towers and pinnacles; and...

In the morning, I mainlined one more dose of 21st-Century news - people shooting each other, politicians insulting each other, heat waves...