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Sep 13, 2025
Photos: “Bachelor” elk and trailkeeping
Photos from an unusual elk sighting in my neighborhood and work on a trail I’ve been visiting for well over a decade
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Sep 7, 2025
How to be alone in the woods: a walk to Plaza Lake
I’ve been asked why I haven’t hiked many of the most popular trails on Mt. Hood in the 25 years I’ve lived in Oregon. The question contains its own answer: popular means crowded.
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Sep 1, 2025
Nasty Rock…but not Not Nasty Rock
I’ve been doing trail work just about every weekend for a couple months, so on this long weekend I decided to get out for hike on an unmarked and unmaintained trail to the source of the Molalla River.
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Jul 21, 2025
Trailkeepers event: Hidden Lake
I attended my third trail party with Trailkeepers of Oregon yesterday. It was a cool summer day on beautiful mountain trail.
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Jun 22, 2025
Back to volunteering
After leaving the search and rescue team a few months ago, I decided it was time to get back into volunteer work. Today I volunteered with Trailkeepers of Oregon.
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Jun 6, 2025
June snow and other adventures
Teddy and I continue to take advantage of unplanned unemployment.
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May 27, 2025
Looking out (cherish what survives: part 2)
I have some extra time right now, so I made a return visit to a fire lookout that miraculously survived a massive wildfire.
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Apr 27, 2025
Big changes have come for me
Time has run out on an important phase of my life.
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Dec 27, 2024
The 10 best books I read in 2024
For the six year in a row, I’m sharing my 10 favorite books I read (or listened to) this year.
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Nov 23, 2024
November in Wyoming: North Sayles Creek and Firebox Canyons
It was another pleasant November day in Wyoming, so I returned to the Bighorns for a Saturday hike. This one ended up taking longer than I expected, as I negotiated two areas of significant blowdown from wildfires.