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