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Thru-Hike The Enchantments (and other terrible ideas)
I’m kidding! Kind of… After hiking solo on the PCT (150 miles) and thru-hiking The Wonderland Trail (93 miles) in 2024, I figured doing 20 miles through The Enchantments in a day would be a piece of cake. Well… turns out The Enchantments are not for the faint of heart… I had done my fair…
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Oregon PCT Lash Day 8… Timothy Lake to Timberline Lodge! (19.4 Miles)
My last day was almost all uphill, all the way up Mount Hood to Timberline Lodge, where T.D. was going to pick me up. I’ve actually never hiked up this part of Mount Hood before, and there were some nice views! I may. have scared a few people with my lovely hiker scent when I…
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My first Oregon PCT Lash 🥾
I’ve been dreaming about doing this for years… I have absolutely romanticized backpacking the PCT after devouring every single thru-hiker memoir I could find. I really want the challenge of a thru-hike, but I don’t want to be away from my family for too long, so a LASH (long ass section hike) seems like the…
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Pro-Tip… Stay In a Fire Lookout!
The real “pro-tip” is to have a friend who obsessively checks fire lookout availability… and I, fortunately, have one of those friends! She found this amazing lookout in Washington, the Steliko Point Lookout. We were there at the perfect time where the wildflowers were popping out everywhere! We were surrounded by a sea of balsomroot…
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Eastern Oregon Road-Trip!
An east coast friend sent me a TikTok with a drone video of Leslie Gulch, which has been on my bucket list for awhile… after comparing busy summer schedules, we decided to take a chance and plan for a spring road-trip. Spring can be risky because while it’s usually pretty dry in Eastern Oregon, you…
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