Category Hiking
The Hike: Dungeness Spit
The Olympic Peninsula is this fantastical place on the other side of the Puget Sound from Seattle. It’s home to a famous rain forest (they get about 200 inches of rain there) and sparkly fictional vampires (the Twilight books are set in the town of Forks) and not enough decent hotels — or so my friend […]
The Hike: Mount Si, followed by Seattle’s Dragonfest
It finally feels like summer in Seattle! The days are long, the skies perfectly clear and sunny, and plenty of things happening. I had originally planned to spend the weekend Getting Things Done. You know, because now that I’m back from vacation it’s time to be a responsible grown-up and actually take all that stuff that’s […]
Hiking Serene Lake and Bridal Veil Falls
My plan to make my friends’ friends my friends, and then mine them for more friends, seems to be working! Vanessa (think Chicago, Vietnam and Rennes) introduced me to Ruth, a friend of hers who recently moved to Seattle from Germany to start a new job at the Jungle, and then Ruth invited me to […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 