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Up early to beat the heat, I left the house in Cle Elum at 7am. At about 730 I turned off the Salmon la Sac highway to Forest Service Road #...

Friday, July 3, 2009 Having spent much of last summer exploring many of the ridges and low mountains of the North Teanaway Valley, I decided...

On October 6, 2008 I had a header in my blog titled, "Tiana's Gone." Now I am so happy to write that Tiana's back home aga...

Today started out great, turned kind of ugly and ended reasonably well. We all got up fairly early, including the girls, and had a wonderful...

Well, today was the big day. After arriving in our Sublimity hotel at a little before midnight, Savi, Mom and I got up reasonably early on...

Wow, it's been a long time since I've blogged. A lot has happened, and a lot has not happened. The most recent event of any real sig...

Had a bit of knee surgery yesterday. Just a scoping procedure where they went in and cleaned out a bit of torn cartilage from my left knee. ...

My nephew Sam, a neighbor kid (Spencer) and two other talented musicians are the group "Ambulance," and they played at a North Sea...

January 17-19, 2009 More photos HERE . Well, here it is January 17th and we're again at an Albany motel, awaiting another parent weekend...

My mother's family bible has changed hands! The Aspinwall bible, which Dad has taken care of for the last number of years, is now in my ...

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...