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Perhaps now is a good time to reflect on my very lovely and my very special 17 year-old daughter, Tiana, who is spending her first Christmas...

It was going to be the cold snap of the century, hurricane force winds, six feet of snow, floods and a dust storm all rolled into one. But f...

November 29, 2008 Again, things were quiet on the North Fork Teanaway road this drizzly, but warmish, Saturday morning in late November. The...

51-day reunion. Six months to go. Oh boy--this is one of those days that you just dread, yet somehow look forward to. And not looking forwar...

I've been wanting to do this hike for years, but was always put off by stories about it's popularity and overuse. I don't mind e...

Another six months. I'm proud of you Tiana, and I love u. :-(

November 2, 2008 One hour from Cle Elum, the North Fork Teanaway Road ended at the Esmerelda Basin parking lot. Wildly popular in summer as ...

Tiana has finished a very demanding 21 day wilderness trek and we finally got to see her Saturday at the Catherine Freer base camp, about 30...

So for those of you who don't already know, yesterday we had an intervention. At 330am, we woke up our soon to be 17 year-old daughter a...

Shotgun in the Closet (Waiting to Go Off) You haven't looked me in the eyes since you were twelve Those eyes that used to sparkle Are go...

We started riding at about 830 and arrived in Cle Elum at 330. In between was 53 miles of the usual mix of good and bad, difficult and easy,...

A couple weeks ago, I was up in this area, about two peaks over, and temps were in the low 90s, even at 6000+'. Today as I started out o...

So they tell me we got a new cat. I know it's true because I've seen the scratching post, the kitty treats, the little cat abode, th...

Well, it's been almost a month since Tiana got her driver's permit and I'm happy to report no serious injuries have yet occurred...

It started off hot, at the trailhead, through the tall trees standing shady beside Standup Creek in the Teanaway valley. It stayed hot, thro...

It was an abbreviated cruise this year aboard my brother's 42' classic wood power boat. Savanna and I took sister Sue and brother in...

While we were momentarily flummoxed that the 17.5 mile trail we had planned on riding this morning ended after just a couple blocks into a n...

Saturday, July 26. I had been watching the penultimate stage of the Tour de France at my sister's house and didn't arrive in Cle Elu...

Well, it's not quite mid-summer, but the nights are cooler, the days are shorter and football season is just around the corner, so it mu...

I've been looking forward to this first hike of the spring since the last hike of the fall (December 2007). Personal circumstances, name...