A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of climbing Mt St Helens for the first time! I had planned to do it in the summer a couple of years ago with Tasha and a few others but people’s schedules got busy and it never happened. Troy and I had also been talking about […]

About a month ago I got to go backpacking with my good friend Kanako and her friend’s daughter, Chihiro, who was travelling with her as she visited her former host family in Everett, Washington. We ended up doing a three day trip on the High Divide Loop in the northwest corner of Olympic National Park which none […]