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December 4, 2022
We were looking for Annie. Our search took us off the easy trail, instead causing us to meander up and around trees, fallen limbs and rocks showing through not-so-deep snow. We heard Annie before we s...
December 2, 2022
We were looking for Annie. Our search took us off the easy trail, instead causing us to meander up and around trees, fallen limbs and rocks showing through not-so-deep snow. We heard Annie before we s...
October 14, 2022
There’s are reason it’s named the Sky Lakes Wilderness Area. Actually, about 200 reasons. That’s the approximate number of lakes in the 27-mile-long, 6-mile-wide Sky Lakes Wilderness that runs along ...
September 9, 2022
As we unloaded our kayaks at the Howard Bay boat ramp, the midges and other bugs were ferocious, thousands of them weaving their way onto our clothes, hats, sunglasses, ears, neck — everywhere. Just o...
June 17, 2022
Lost Creek isn’t lost anymore. The creek that often parallels Lost Creek Trail into the east side of the Sky Lakes Wilderness Area usually is unseen. Over the past several decades, day hikers and back...
June 3, 2022
“Sand lilies!” “Yellow violets!” “Cushion buckwheat!” Niel and Molly were taking turns calling out the names of wildflowers as we walked into the heart of Devil’s Garden. “Yellow paintbrush!” “Pussypa...
May 13, 2022
It was a spur of the moment decision. Bill Van Moorhem, Gary Vequist and I debated what to do next — leave the snow-covered parking area and drive off in search of a snow-free place to hike, just give...
April 8, 2022
Not every outing goes as planned. Our goal was Hayden Mountain, a 5,134-foot hill — it’s not really a classic “peak” — off Highway 66 about 39 miles east of Ashland. Led by Gary Vequist, our group of ...
April 1, 2022
It wasn’t part of the original plan, but when the road to the Bad Lands became, surprisingly, too snowy, we made a U-turn and wondered where to go next. The Bad Lands is a little-visited area on a fin...
December 3, 2021
Where were we heading? We thought we knew, but given the weather, none of us had the foggiest idea. That’s because the road we followed was barely visible in the bleakness of dense fog. Driving in the...