Category: Washington

Penrose State Park – Sunday February 16, 2014

This is a late post however the weather at Penrose was nasty all weekend.  It RAINed all day on Saturday with wind and heavy rain Saturday night.  Hank and I did not get out at all on Saturday.  We left at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, I wanted to get across the Narrow’s bridge before the wind got to bad.

I took this campsite picture as we were leaving Sunday morning.
On Saturday Hank has been with us for six years and I think we’ve turned him into a dog.
Not a very good picture however he’s a happy dog.  We’re glad he’s part of our family.

Home – Monday September 23, 2013

I didn’t close out vacation.

Saturday we drove 552 miles in 12.5 hours coming across Chinook Pass.  As a footnote Chinook pass should get some snow tonight.  We used only 303 gallons of gas. We usually use between 400 and 450 gallons when we venture out into eastern Utah and/or northern Arizona.
I know change is usually good, however Google has changed the structure of photo sharing again.  They want to force you to share through Google Plus and all I want to do is to allow sharing through a know link.  I found this link information last night and tonight I’ve looked to 5 minutes and still can not figure out how to find the albums URL.  I want to add the URL to this post so only people who have been to this blog can see the pictures.

4 minutes later, I found it.

Hopefully this is the link to a short photo album of our Fall 2013 vacation.

https://plus.google.com/photos/103251228629758359940/albums/5926676480697151457?authkey=CPiN1svBnuP6ZQ

 

Harry

 

Crystal Mt. – Sunday July 28, 2013

Hank and went for a hike this morning.  I did not hurt that much but after we got started I didn’t have all that much energy.

This is a view back down the valley.

We went up the right side of the valley today.

I am here: 46 56.076 N 121 27.231 W http://map a googled com/maps?q=loc:46.9346,-121.45386

5011 alt.
Here is my hiking equipment until age 49.
Here is what I hiked with during my 50’s.

This is what I’m hiking with in my 60’s.

Now the question is how long do I get to hike?

Today’s hike
This one show’s stats from our high point.  I noticed today the stats page shows location and altitude.

Crystal Mt. – Saturday July 27, 2013

Saturday evening and a bottle of my favorite wine. Blog on hold.

Sunday morning, yesterday Hank and hiked up to Bullion Basin.

Not much to see, I think the first time I spent the night here was in 1963 with Scout troop 419. Brian, Christine and stayed here about 8 years ago and I have pass through at least 2 dozen times over the years.

This year I used the trekking poles Tanya got me a couple of years ago.
Here is the top of Mt Rainier looking past Crystal Mt.

Here is the hike:

Started here

I am here: 46 56.909 N 121 28.409 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:46.9485,-121.47349

elevation 4152

Bullion Basin

I am here: 46 56.076 N 121 27.231 W http://map a googled com/maps?q=loc:46.9346,-121.45386

Elevation 5871

(Edit I had the wrong GPS location pasted in).

Great day and I don’t even hurt to much this morning. It was 45° outside this morning so Hank and I are just setting out for a hike now that It’s warmed up a bit.