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Okay, so I have a dirty little secret to share with you. I have a thing for snakes. I mean, I really like to play with them and spend...

Making snow angels and burying herself in powder is a dream come true for this wolf. If you look real close, you can see her saliva...

When the opportunity arises to run with Bighorn Sheep, you just have to take it. There is a river canyon on the east side of the Columbia...

So this is just an all around embarrassing story to tell. Yes, I know, the girls look so innocent here. They are very good at posing when...

You are not going to be surprised by this at all. We had read about a Lookout tower and had to go for a visit. This is one of the few...

Brrrr! This was a cold one. Once again, I was in one of my favorite places in the world...Mount Adams! There is an access road up there...

Fall colors on Mt Hood are always spectacular. Hiking in the Fall is one of my favorite times of year for sure. There were hardly any...

Everyone always asks me what my very favorite hike or backpacking trip was. This is it. Hands down, truly number one. Best night of my...

I'm not going to lie. This was probably one of the most memorable nights of my life and my second favorite backpacking trip!! I had read...

Iceberg Lake....one of two on Mt. Adams and both are hard to find! There is an iceberg lake on both the north and south side and they are...

Mount Hood is such a varied and wonderful place to hike. We frequently find ourselves up on her. Nova and I backpacked up to this stone...

This was a history hike! We were in Eastern Washington. While on this trail, we got to visit the site of several homesteads from the...

What can be better than sunset over Mt. St. Helens? We had done a long day of hiking through old growth forests along a beautiful river....

I love sunflowers. BalsamRoot Flowers are very similar. So when that flower season hits in April and May, we search the best unknown...

This was my bonus birthday hike. I had taken off for the weekend to go out to the Oregon coast with Nova. We did 2 days of hiking in cold...

There is a wonderful waterfall hike up near Carson, Washington that is often crowded in the summer months. We had decided to snowshoe up...

This was on the infamous Eagle Creek trail in the Columbia River Gorge. It had been closed for years after the terrible wild fires there....

Nova and I have hiked up and down the Columbia River Gorge on almost every trail…the well-known and the unknown. But there was one we...

One of the bucket list hikes I had for 2022 was up on Mt. Adams. I had climbed up the North side in 2021 and found a magical place with...

Josie in her element! After all our hot summer hikes, I had promised that Wolf that snow hikes would be coming and I had to keep my word...