Category: Blog
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Cutthroat Ridge… too intense of a name for anything
I chatted with cashier while she smoked outside the gas station. She was saying that she thought it was weird that guys would wait in line for the bathroom at the convenience store when they could just go pee outside. It was inconsiderate to the ladies since they had to wait longer. Sophie and Patrick…
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Yellow Aster Butte
Over the weekend we headed out from Seattle to Yellow Aster Butte. The drive up took about two and a half hours from Northgate, with Lawrence kindly taking the wheel while the rest of us caught up and enjoyed the sunshine. Not a cloud in the sky, perfect hiking weather. We hit the trail around…
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Dream Themes and Selected Sequences
Following up on my last blog post, here are some highlights from my dream log… Tech & Travel Adventures Tesla at the dump → You found a discarded Tesla sedan, restored it with bodywork, and drove it down to Tacoma like a prize reclaimed from ruin. * Tesla road trip from Texas → You realized…
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ChatGPTs Interpretation of 1.5 years of Daily Dream Logging
I’ve been logging my dreams lately. Below is ChatGPTs response when asked to deduce some things about my life, my purpose and what vision I’m pursuing. 1. Themes of Building, Repairing, and Reconstructing Across many dreams, you are building houses, patching drywall, shifting foundations, fixing cars (Tesla, damaged windshield, bald tires), or evaluating properties. Even…
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A Weekend of Patience, Perseverance and Promises Kept!
Good Thing We Got Everything Wrong Out of the Way Early… The adventure kicked off Friday evening with a real *classic*: turning into the northbound express lanes during peak southbound traffic. As we cruised north, we glided past miles of bumper-to-bumper southbound cars, soon, we too would be joining them. Our first opportunity to exit…
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A Spring Ski Mission to Mount Baker
We met up at the park-and-ride around 8 a.m.—me, Reid, and a few others—and hit the road for Mount Baker. We rolled into the parking lot around 10:30 and were on the trail by 11. The group was solid: Reid (my longtime hiking buddy), Lawrence (who I’ve known for a while around Seattle), and Peter,…
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Snovernight @ Kendall Lakes
Met Betsy at Swedish hospital around eight on Saturday. Usually when I’m meeting people for the snow shoe overnights I have to leave the apartment at like 530, so this late start was a nice break from the usual. We met the team at a park in Snoqualmie around 9am. Mike Kretzler was leading the…
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What is this? Powder Snow?
It’s been a while, maybe a month since we’ve had fresh snowfall. But Mother Nature delivered and about three feet of the good stuff has fallen since Thursday. My buddy Johannes and I figured today would be about as good as any to see it for ourselves. Avalanche dangers would be considerable, but the tree…
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Blasted with Pow in Bullion Basin
I must’ve been excited for this ski outing because I woke up at 4:30am thinking I had overslept my alarm. My dream that morning was comical. It involved a 4ft tall chicken leg, dessert for breakfast. And culminated with me being stranded high up on a peak somewhere in the Issaquah Alps with only 10…
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Avoiding Crystal Mountain Crowds on Little Ranger Peak
Why do people hike in the winter? Is it because it’s winter and it’s beautiful with the snow and crisp air. Or do folks get out in it because it’s winter and that’s just how it is and staying indoors for the entire weekend is way worse than going out in the cold, frozen forest?…