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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…

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…

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…

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?…

There was some confusion because Mark thought a few of us hadn’t taken the right turns to get to the Serpentine Hill trailhead. Justifiably, there were a few confusing turns and it would’ve been easy to get lost. I had come up the night before the try out my new car camping set up so…

This is my second Meetup hike again in the last couple of weeks. Everyone on The Mountaineers and Discord seem to have received the memo that the weather was going to be too inclement to go out. But not Jeremy, he’s unapologetically hosting hikes and I appreciate him for that! I haven’t slept well the…

October 19th 2024 I’ve been thinking about the following quote and even stickers of it made because I liked it so much. What you think is what you become. What you feel is what you attract. What you imagine is what you create.  This is a great quote, because it captures the cascading nature of…

It’s Larch Madness, the Larch March, and I’m up here for the third time since September. This time with my good friends; Sophie, Joey and Lawrence. Sophie and Larence made a last minute rendezvous with Joey and I at the North Bend Safeway. The parking lot was full at 10:30am and we parked about 3/4…

[9/19/2024] Nighttime Escape to Esmeralda Trailhead The night before I had dreamt that I was at the house I used to live in the University District. There happened to be a huge river bed or glacial silt area in the backyard. It was filled with cascading granite and fallen trees. A young man, who was…

September 14th  I’ve slept at the Snow Lake trailhead before, and I should’ve remembered I’d be kept all night by the constant sound of car doors slamming. Nonetheless, the day started around 6am, with some green tea from my favorite tea shop in Seattle, the Vital Tea leaf (much might I say than instant coffee). …