pictures

Many missing pictures that I was unable to load until now...

Climbing Mt St Helens...

Nancy and I...before we started...still smiling!

Donna and I...we made it to the summit together

View from the top...Rainier in the background

Looking into the crater...still smoking

Other misc. pics...

Mountain biked around this entire, beautiful lake...23 miles...I was tired!

After camping in Mt. St. Helens I decided I wanted to drive a a little further south to do this "epic" trail according to one of my books. It was a hot hike along the ridge of a mountain most the way, but the view from the top was spectacular! I could see five mountains: Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson, and Mt Adams. Apparently on even clearer days you can see the three sisters south of Portland.

This is biking south of Portland, can't see well in the picture, but the sisters can be faintly seen in the background

Backpacking Olympic National Park...

And we are off into the big, beautiful forest

The top of Appleton Pass, where we camped. It was cold and rainy. The rain on this backpacking adventure was very interesting. We were lucky to be able to set up camp while it wasn't raining very hard, but later we got completely drenched. It was very hard to keep some clothes dry to sleep in.

Day 2 we hiked from our campsite to the other side of the pass to these natural hot springs. There was nobody else there. It was great. But I was already so wet I didn't get all the way in, but it was nice to soak the feet.