This site contains pictures and descriptions of my hiking, mountain climbing, rock climbing and other outdoor experiences over my lifetime in the State of Washington.

There is nothing like the freedom of the outdoors. The outdoors offers the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of nature, the fellowship of others and most of all the challenge to oneself.

A large part of physical outdoor activities is mental, in that you have to concentrate on making short distance gains, knowing that they will result in success.

The picture on the top right was taken at the 12,000 ft. level on our way up to the summit of Mt. Rainier in 1988.  Mt. Adams is in the background.

A search engine is included to aid your navigation of the internet and links to other recreational web sites providing weather, equipment, trail conditions and other pertinent information. If you find other good recreational web sites, E-mail me and I will consider adding them to my recreational links.

I started my retirement life in 2004 and am hiking more frequently again.

So far in 2005, I have hiked (scrambled) part way up an icy trail to Lake Shuksan in the Baker Lake area with my son-in-law, Buzz Bannister. We will return there another day when the conditions are better.

With my friend, Mike Bell, we have hiked to Wallace Falls, Wallace Lake and to Heather Lake. Our trip to Wallace Lake including a sidetrip was about 13 miles. That really taxed our energy.

 

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