Category: Snowshoeing
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Snowshoeing Wrap-up, January and February
I’ve done a couple of snowshoe trips since the New Year, and fully intended to write up a trip report for each, but decided that since time is passing away so quickly, I’ll just write up a blurb about our trips. Kachess Dam Road This is an easily-accessed area, just off the freeway in Easton…
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North Loop Snowshoe, Hoodoo, OR, TR, 2/19/17
Over the long President’s Day weekend, when we were visiting my brother, we drove up to Hoodoo ski area to do a snowshoe. This huge sno-park has a solid network of ski and snowshoe trails to choose from. We chose a kid-friendly trail to one of the warming huts – the North Loop Trail. We…
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Salmon Ridge Sno-Park Snowshoe, 1/28/17
I heard about the REI-sponsored event called AllOut, in which they were partnering with other organizations all over the country to host all kinds of activities. It sounded like a neat way to explore a new area, so I picked an event to go to that I hadn’t explored before. The Salmon Ridge Sno-Park area…
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Gold Creek Pond Snowshoes, Day and Night (December 2016)
In December, we made two trips to Gold Creek Pond for snowshoeing. The first was a normal day-time trip, and the other was our second-annual twilight year-end snowshoe. We did both trips with our friend Cindy and her dogs. The first trip was after a large amount of powder had fallen, and the snow was…
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Snowshoeing Blewett Pass
I’ve been wanting to try a different snowshoe trail that’s safe for kids, and last week I saw another family post a report about snowshoeing up at Blewett Pass. That gave me the courage to drive a little farther to check out the trails there. (We had planned to go to Paradise, but the weather…
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Sunset Snowshoe at Gold Creek for New Year’s Eve
A few weeks ago, REI was advertising an event they were doing on New Year’s Eve. Their plan was to bring folks up to Gold Creek, have them snowshoe around the pond, provide food, lights, warming fires, and good cheer to welcome in the new year. It sounded so fun, but was expensive and sold…
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The Year in Review – 2013
We had a pretty spectacular year of hiking and other nature outings this year. I was going through my photos last month to make scrapbooks for the grandparents, and enjoyed reliving the memories. With the New Year passing last night, I thought I’d tally up the trips we took. I made a spreadsheet of all…
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Longs Pass (Almost!) Trip Report – 10/11/13
Last year I had an amazing trip to go see the larches turning colors, but I didn’t take my children along. They were disappointed and have been seeing photos of lovely landscapes glowing with golden larch trees. They really wanted to go somewhere this year. Some folks had been saying the trees were prime up…
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Gold Creek Snowshoe (Second Visit)
We had a chance to go snowshoeing with our friends last Friday, and we went to Gold Creek again. Cindy had knee replacement surgery just 8 weeks ago, and this was to be her first outing in the mountains since then. We had some other novice ladies with us, too, so it was good to…
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Smithbrook Road Snowshoe
We have been experiencing an unusual and long-lasting inversion here in Puget Sound, causing cold, grey, still air to settle in the lowlands. Meanwhile, the sun shines in the mountains. We went up Friday to find the sunshine, and trek in the snow at the same time. Our friend Kirsten offered to drive us…