As most long-time readers of Stoney Moss know, last September, I got lost hiking on Mt. St. Helens with my dog Harriet. Our ordeal lasted about 36 hours from first setting foot on the mountain for what we thought was an unremarkable day-hike (so were packed, regrettably, for such a hike), until we we were [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hiking’
In the Palisades
Last weekend, before the rain moved in to stay, Jon and I visited the Palisades in northeastern New Jersey. The park is an 11-mile stretch of land bordering the Hudson River, and through most of it, you can see Manhattan on the other side of the river. A colleague came here on September 11, 2001- [...]
Forest Service leaves quiet recreation in OHV’s dust
By way of Mazamas‘ Mt. Hood Travel Plan Task Force Mt. Hood National Forest narrowly interprets Travel Plan requirements, creating off-road playgrounds but not addressing other recreation access needs or damage to watersheds from old logging roads. Earlier this year Mt. Hood National Forest began holding meetings about revising its Travel Plan, which is meant [...]
Summer Haiku for Poetry Thursday
Summer in the Pacific Northwest brought a few lines about traveling and hiking to favorite places. North Umpqua River:Rain streams pretty fish and birds.I hope all return.::Raven circles high,Granite face proscenium,Wing echos drop low.::Spider domes glow whiteAs the morning dew flees, free.Moth skeletons quake.::Fish face upstream coolAnd wait for autumns calling.Dipper poaches flies. A diary [...]
Pinnacle Ridge, Mount Hood Wilderness
Saturday I hiked what may be my favorite one ever: Pinnacle Ridge in Mount Hood’s Wilderness area. Here’s a link to a photo that very nearly captures the exquisite beauty of that place. Adam Schneider’s photos not only are fantastic but are useful in double-checking some of the many wildflowers that my hiking pal Danielle [...]
On the Mountain
In September, my life changed forever. I’ve mentioned before on this blog about my experience on Mt. St Helens- a short and innocuous day-hike turned Big Experience. Turned Spiritual Event. Turned Survival. My lack of an inner compass (and an utter inability to use a man-made one) led to a near-disaster, and 36 hours after [...]
An Egg’s Angle of Repose
Last Saturday I went hiking with a friend at Cape Horn, just east of Vancouver, Washington, actually west of Camus and Washugal and east of Stevenson. It’s a new trail, only 2-years old, built by volunteers on a Columbia Land Trust acquired piece of property. My friend Danielle and me are working to hike every [...]
An Egg’s Angle of Repose
Last Saturday I went hiking with a friend at Cape Horn, just east of Vancouver, Washington, actually west of Camus and Washugal and east of Stevenson. It’s a new trail, only 2-years old, built by volunteers on a Columbia Land Trust acquired piece of property. My friend Danielle and me are working to hike every [...]
Naps
Harriet the Wonderous Westie and I took our first big hike of the season yesterday- up near Amboy, Washington in the Gifford Pinchot National forest. This hike was important to me (and Harriet, perhaps) for several reasons: it was my graduation hike, a beautiful way to spend a day skipping work skipping through the forest [...]
Lost
This is my catch-up National Poetry Month day- I think the last poem I posted was for 4.3- I have a few minutes in between catching up on my speech credits (which I need to complete to graduate) and seeing a movie (Some German spy film), that I thought I would post a few errant [...]
