Garibaldi Taylor Meadow to Panorama Ridge

τοτε 'ηψατο των οψθαλμων
αυτων λεγων κατα την πιστιν
'υμων γενηθητς 'υμιν

according to your faith
let it be done to you

Email Address

Packing Lists

Others

*I'm in the process of moving my blog to wordpress, so I don't have to spend so much time editing html. In the meantime, pardon the mess here. How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. -Anonymous


Sunshine Coast Road Trip

Thu 05 June 2008

Sunshine Coast Tanya, Heather N, and I went for a road trip to B.C.'s Sunshine Coast for three days earlier this week. We had a lovely time. The highlight was the wildlife: deer, blue heron, sea stars, crabs, clams, and aenenomes, turkey vultures, a bald eagle and a golden eagle, and two black bears—one while we were hiking!



Lake Chelan

Tue 20 May 2008

Chelan Lakeshore Trail On the weekend I hiked Lake Chelan with six friends. It was a great trip. We spent the first night at the Lake Chelan State Park campground, then on Saturday took the Lady of the Lake II ferry from Fields Point to Prince Creek. From there it was an 11 1/2 mile (7.5 hour) hike in 30 + weather to Moore Point. The contrasts between heat and cold, dryness and water, were amazing. We could see snow capped peaks and glaciers above, which melt and rush down the steep mountainsides into the lake. Lake Chelan is fed by 27 glaciers. Most of us brought swimsuits, but no one was brave enough to swim in the frigid water. The climate is similar to that of the south Okanagan, resulting in similar vegetation: ponderosa pines, scrubby-looking bushes, arrowleaf balsamroot. Oh, and lots of salamanders and at leat one huge toad.

The second day it took about 3 1/2 hours to hike the remaining 7 miles to Stehekin, where five of us enjoyed burgers and sandwiches on a restaurant deck overlooking Lake Chelan. Unfortunately, we left beind two comrades at Moore Point due to heat exhaustion and severe foot blisters. But our ferry back to our cars stopped there and picked them up, so everyone made it safely back.

Archive




Heather on Flickr