One mile on the Pacific Crest Trail
Mount Rainier National Park (Naches Peak Loop)
September 2018 Continue reading Medium Format Film Photography: Sneak Peak at Mount Rainier’s Naches Peak Loop Trail
From Second Burroughs we see a trail winding down through a tundra meadow, up and over another peak. What’s this? We can get even higher and closer to Mt. Rainier?
We head down the mystery trail with these words in mind: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S. Elliot Continue reading Mount Rainier National Park: Epic Hike to Third Burroughs
Atop 3rd Burroughs Peak
Mount Rainier National Park
September 2018 Continue reading 35mm Film Photography – One Hit Wonders: Mount Rainier
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.” – René Daumal Continue reading Mount Rainier National Park: Sunrise Visitor Center & Breakfast with a View
Are you really there Mount Rainier?
Always hiding, hiding behind the weather you make.
Will you show yourself today? Continue reading Mount Rainier National Park: White River Campground & Glacier Basin / Emmons Moraine Trail
Heart O’ the Hills. Hurricane Ridge. Hidden Bush. And no, that last one is not a natural landmark that you’ve just never heard of. Continue reading Olympic National Park – Part 4: Hurricane Ridge & Port Angeles
Longing for a quiet walk in the woods, we stop off to hike a bit of the North Fork trail in the Sol Duc Valley. A bear grunts to notify us of his presence. This place belongs to him. Continue reading Olympic National Park – Part 3: Rialto Beach, Lake Crescent, Sol Duc Valley
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refuges of a long war.” — Loren Eiseley Continue reading Olympic National Park – Part 2: Pacific Coast Beaches
My “perfect day” begins in the mountains and ends on the coast, or vice versa. That dreamy combination awaits us on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. We’ve set aside a week to explore the area, although I imagine that even a lifetime of wandering this region would not allow for seeing all of the amazing natural wonders here. Continue reading Olympic National Park – Part 1: Quinault & Hoh Rainforests
Westward We Wander 
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