I always enjoy our trips out to the west end. No matter what season it’s always beautiful. On this trip we used the Hoh Rainforest for our base camp. We found a site right on the river that was so nice we stayed an extra week.
Everyday we did something different. We kayaked the Hoh River (where I accidentally went swimming) and the Dickey River and Lake Crescent. Hiked trails in the Hoh, Lake Quinalt, Rialto Beach, Second Beach, Ruby Beach and Sol Duc to name a few. Here’s a few photos from that outing.
We just returned from 10 days of camping, hiking and kayaking in beautiful Glacier and Waterton National Parks. Our last trip there was a ‘resource mission’ terribly short and left us longing to return someday to spend some quality time. We finally got it!
Glacier is one of those “BIG PARKS” with towering mountains, amazing vistas, beautiful waterfalls and mega fauna. Moose, grizzly, big horn sheep, mountain goats, black bear, elk, deer, wolves, red fox, beavers and many more can be seen in both parks. We scoped out a weather window and it worked. Clear warm days with nice evenings, few people and no mesquites…well maybe one or two. By next week these parks will be packed with visitors as the season has arrived. And a short season it is. First snowfall can be expected by the end of September or earlier. Even the lodges close the end of September, not to open again until mid-May or June (weather permitting).
We hiked many miles and saw many beautiful sights. Here’s some photos from the trip.
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Snow Geese – Sacramento Wildlife Refuge
This is a repost of our trip to Southern California to visit family and friends over the holidays. I guess the previous post has been forever lost in cyberspace, or accidentally deleted? I admit it could be ‘operator error.’
We’d planned on at least three weeks for the road trip and our timing was perfect. The weather was ideal both in San Diego and Anza Borrego. Even our quick stop at the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge was warm and sunny.
Once in San Diego we took several side trips to Anza Borrego State Park for a little camping and hiking, our way to relax and rejuvenate from the fast pace of the city. Anza Borrego is California’s largest state park encompassing more than 600,000 acres and home to 50 or more species of flora and fauna including the parks namesake the Bighorn Sheep (Borrego is Spanish for sheep).
Balboa Park at Dusk
Photos taken at Anza Borrego State Park
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Mt. Shuksan & Picture Lake
In the past few weeks we’ve taken a few days each week to do some hiking and camping in the North Cascades. A ferry ride and short drive from here are some of the most breathtaking scenes in the West. We’ve found the perfect campsite in one of the forest service campgrounds on the Nooksack River. Here are a few photos I took during our visit last week while hiking the Chain of Lakes Loop. It’s a great hike with a photo-opt around nearly every bend of the trail.
Mt. Baker from Chain Lakes Loop trail
Another shot of Mt. Baker
Iceberg Lake
Nooksack River
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We’ve been enjoying an amazing summer up here in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle broke all records last week with temps reaching 103 degrees. Over here on the Olympic Peninsula we saw 100 degrees in the shade! The heat had me up earlier than normal and I took advantage of it to take these two photos out at Point Wilson. These were taken at about 6:00 a.m., notice how high the sun already was and the warm glow.
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