Elk are large animals with good-sized whitish rumps or “wapiti”, which is also the Indian name for elk. Clear-cuts and forest fires […]

Elk are large animals with good-sized whitish rumps or “wapiti”, which is also the Indian name for elk. Clear-cuts and forest fires […]
On the last weekend of summer I drove to Triangle Pass and then to the Grassy Knoll Trailhead, about seven miles […]
The Meeks Table Research Natural Area is in the William O. Douglas Wilderness. After several days of heavy rain and wind […]
On my second day of hiking in the Central Cascades of Washington State, I drove the very rough road to […]
Like U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, some of my favorite outings have been on the Tumac Plateau. In […]
Arriving on a sunny afternoon in the Central Cascade Mountains of Washington State, I decided to stop on the top […]
On a cool, late summer day we hiked in a hidden gem of an old-growth forest. The trail followed the Siouxon […]
Every wilderness area has a hidden, hard-to-reach jewel. For Indian Heaven the gem is the crater of E. Crater Mountain, […]
Due to large floods and rock slides a few years ago, the six-mile road to the Sheep Canyon Trailhead on Mt. […]
In early June I drove to the north side of Trapper Creek Wilderness, a nine square-mile designated wilderness in the […]