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As I lay in bed in the early morning hours on hiking day and listened to the rain and wind pound my window and could see the tall...

We were on the hunt for the elusive sulfur water Eel on today's hike. I know that sounds a bit strange, but since you know me, that...

For the last 35-40 years of my life I have seen a framed 8x10 photo hanging in my parent's home. It was one of my Dad's hiking photos and...

Today I learned that there are still a few gentlemen left in the world and I was given hope for humanity after all. It was a good omen...

So hiking in the last week of August should mean skinny dipping in high elevation lakes. The three of us were mentally prepared for that....

This hike made us think we could pass through time, had us picking up garbage that forced us to try extra hard to not die all night, and...

The weather this week had been intent on killing us. Hiking day was our fourth day over 100 degrees in a row. The nights were not cooling...

So I accepted the fact that I was going to be climbing an angry mountain, I just didn't know that I was going to be summiting in a storm...

All I wanted and needed from this week's hike was something easy. I didn't want to bleed or fall off any cliffs or get lost or fear dying...

This week's hike made last week's cliff dive seem like a cake walk. But where there is a will, there is a way. However, I will admit that...

This week's hike comes with a story of falling off a cliff, being cased all night by a pack of tough and territorial coyotes and having...

Oh merry of soul am I, just as the song goes! I was about to embark on a new trail that I have been waiting months for! It was in...

The weatherman told me it was suppose to be 100 degrees today and there was a wildfire in the Gorge in the same county I live in. So...

Today's story is about taking risks, communing with mountain goats, finding cures for deep disappointment and depression, soaking in a...

Have you ever experienced the feeling of being more alone around other people than you are with just yourself? That was surely the way we...

After having finished reading the book about Truman and his love for Mt. St. Helens, this hike picked itself. I needed to be on the...

The lesson from this week's hike was all about not judging a book by its cover...with books and with people. But in any good story, we...

I didn't think it possible, but here I was suffering hypothermia and getting near frostbite in my hands on a sunny end of May day. There...

Today, I am going to tell you a story about a hike with a trail-side birth, a tree of life, bones, lizards and snakes with long tongues....

Since we are friends, I am going to show you my favorite bare butt photo....but not until later in my story. So no peaking ahead! If you...