a wilderness journal

Usually the ocean moderates climate here on the west coast, pushing down summer temperatures and keeping winters mild.  However, sometimes w...

The National Weather Service forecasts rain essentially all week, but cumulous clouds and spots of blue in the sky this morning suggested th...

In early September, MWS and I went backpacking in the Sky Lakes Wilderness in the southern part of the Cascades.  The wilderness is just sou...

This first post will be autobiographical.  I grew up outside of Chicago, and then later, in southern California.  Suburban life certainly di...