Normally I’d have a few more photos from a hike, but yesterday I came back with eight. And twice as many mosquito bites. And as many black fly bites. I forgot my bug spray in a hiking season known for particularly bad bugs. Hiking from the car to around the lake I used my bandanna [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hiking’
hiking the Lewis River
I missed a poetry reading last night because I underestimated how long it would take me to get to the trail head (97 miles from home, half of them windy), and how long it would take to hike an easy 7-mile trail. I added another 1.5 miles, so that changed things, too. The Lewis River [...]
Ramona Falls
(Click through a couple of times to get to larger pictures. The first two are especially worth it, if I do say so myself.) Ramona Falls is worth the 90-minute drive from Portland, especially if it’s a beautiful, off-season day. My friend and I saw few people on the trail (a lot less than Mirror [...]
another Mount Hood hike
I knew I should take advantage of a beautiful Friday (how many are left?) to hike with Sport. I dithered about where to go because I didn’t want to drive far (take too much time) or be too remote or in fall hunting territory (safety issues). So I decided to try the Burnt Lake hike [...]
glorious September days
Yesterday was clear and warm. Sport and I needed exercise and the woods, so we set out in the morning and hit the extraordinarily popular Mirror Lake trail south of Mount Hood. I figured a September Friday was the best chance of enjoying the easy access (and moderate hike) and I was right. The surprise [...]
confessions version 07.07.09
Too busy with family and too sick with a resultant head cold that moved into my chest last night, I’ve not been doing much creatively as of late. (Except for yesterday’s poem, which I will probably proffer to Read Write Poem, in lieu of something for the homunculus prompt, even though that is a fascinating [...]
cat’s ear or mariposa lily
Not only did yesterday’s hike provide beargrass out the wazoo, there were other abundant wildflowers, in kind if not showy volume. Gaining 2,300 feet to end up at 4,000 offers a broad range of habitat. Wild rose (baldhip? — too small to be Nootka),vanilla leaf, avalanche lily, tiger lily, bunchberry, a leafless pyrola of some [...]
Catherine Creek critters
Friday was a beautiful hiking day, especially welcomed after a cool and wet early May, even by NW Oregon standards. I was delighted when a pre-planned hiking date with Danielle turned out to be sunny and warm. We are hiking our way through William Sulivan’s 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington and that [...]
Paradise park
Last Saturday my hiking buddy and I managed, somehow, to get up to Paradise Park on Mount Hood. I have a few photos to show – not as many as I’d like, for my battery went dead, and the hours grew long, and I didn’t want to dilly-dally too much. But I also have a [...]
I have a thing for old farm equipment
I’ve been depressed, a bit, lately. From the end of January to last Wednesday, it was go, go, go- with basically no break. School is of course a massive undertaking (four classes last semester including stats), finding a new house in a new state and moving, dealing with a cervical problem, then taking on a [...]
