| January 18, 2017 | My blog post series on North Cascades National Park continues. After spending the last ten days in upstate New York taking a Wilderness First Responder course (much more on that later!), I found myself continually reminiscing on my memories of Washington. I still feel incredibly connected with these mountains. They have deeply inspired […]
| January 6, 2017 | My third day in North Cascades National Park was a solo trip. I planned to venture into the park before weather was supposed to turn over the weekend. My goal? To arrive at the trailhead of Hidden Lake Lookout early enough on a Friday morning in September to claim an overnight spot […]
| December 30, 2016 | This is part two of a five-part series professing my love to North Cascades National Park. Mother Nature was relentless in my second hike along Heather Maple Pass Loop where my crew and I experienced all weather conditions, including a 2-hour horizontal hail storm. There’s debate of whether to take this hike clockwise […]
| December 29, 2016 | The third and final National Park in Washington I had yet to visit was North Cascades National Park. It seemed like a faraway land north of Seattle that not many people talk about. Honestly, I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I had seen photos of Diablo Lake and I […]
| September 18, 2016 | I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir – Oh yes, until sundown I did stay. I was so enraptured by Mount Rainier National Park that I surrendered to time and absorbed […]
The most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings… – John Muir – When I drove through the entrance of Mt. Rainier National Park for the first time, I wasn’t entirely sure what was in store. Though I had thoughts of pursuing Eagle […]
