With a sunny and dry day finally in the forecast, we chose Mount St Helens as the hike… It turned out to be sunny and dry, but very cold and windy day…giving it that real alpine feel. We decide to…

Nice hike before celebrating a great Thanksgiving with friends (Friendsgiving). Myself, Deb, Chris, and Sue ran up to Nesmith Point early in the morning…kind of a psyche-hike to justify all the food we were about to consume. Heading up to…

Needed to get some elevation this weekend, and only had the first half of Sunday to get it done. Five of us met at the Starvation Creek trailhead at 7:00am, for the Mount Defiance Loop hike. Tagged the summit at…

Only had Saturday available to play this weekend, so I decided to visit the Table Rock Wilderness. Parked at the TR trailhead at 8:15 am, and was hiking by 8:20. First tagged Table Rock, then over to, and around Rooster…

Good weekend to spend at Smith Rock. Drove out early Saturday morning with Chris Wilson. We got in 10 good pitches, including a 5-pitch multi-pitch sport route, and a handful of single pitch sport routes on the west side of…

Sunday, didn’t let the rainy forecast get in the way of doing The Mystery Trail again. Deb and I got off to a late start at 9:30am… We made good time getting up to the drop-off point (start of the…

Six of us did the Dynamite Cave on Saturday. This cave is up, outside of Trout Lake, Washington. The cave entrance is just a couple hundred yards from the parking area. We spent about 8-hours in the cave, which goes…