We're spending a few days this week out at Stub Stewart State Park. We figured we could work and hike from here and get some different trail scenery than we've been getting around home. (Not that we're complaining…we just wanted an excuse to get out in the trailer a bit.)…
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I mentioned we've been hiking (and occasionally running) the trails near our house every morning while we're at home (and how stupid we feel that we haven't been doing this every day for the last 15 years…30 seconds from our door, etc….). Anyway. They've been installing new signage around the…
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While on our hike this morning, we came across this tiny mouse in the middle of the trail. He was teeny — no more than about about 2 inches — just sitting there, nibbling on something. We slowed up and got closer and closer and he didn't seem to even…
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While we've been home we've been taking advantage of the giant system of trails about 30 seconds from our house at the Hoyt Arboretum and Forest Park. This morning instead of our normal (daily) 4 miles, we branched off and headed over to the Portland Japanese Garden. Makes me want…
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Yesterday afternoon (after the Shi Shi Beach hike, and after some more work) we headed out to Cape Flattery. We wanted to REALLY be as far as we could out here in the Northwest corner of the (Continental) U.S. so we drove out to the Cape Trail and hiked out…
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This morning we headed south a little bit to get to the trailhead for Shi Shi Beach. Here's a payoff picture so you can see where we ended up: Those twisty rock formations are huge, and it took quite a bit of rock scaling to get out there and get…
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This morning after breakfast (spinach blueberry smoothies) we headed over to hike Beacon Rock. From the Washington Trails Association website: Beacon Rock earned its name when Captains Lewis and Clark camped in its shadow on their way to the Pacific Ocean in 1805. The rock is an 848-foot basalt column…
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Great visit with our friends from Holland the past couple days. Friday night we cooked some halibut en papillote with yams and asparagus soup and spent the evening out by the campfire roasting marshmallows on our new cool telescoping roasting forks. These are the roasting forks. We picked up four…
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This afternoon we headed back up to Sunset Bay State Park so we could hike the trails out to Simpson Reef and the overlook where you see (and hear) hundreds of sea lions and seals. The hike was about four miles out and four miles back, and it was stunning.…
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Yesterday early evening we did the hike from Cape Perpetua in to see the Great Spruce. Here's the green I promised earlier. This is not The Great Spruce, just a fairly large tree: This photo looks like a get well card, don't you think? Dappled light on the trail: A…
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