Mt. Shasta 05/27/2012

Mt. Shasta from Shasta City.

Sunrise on climbing day.

We ate lunch above the clouds, which seemed to follow us up all day.  One the way down we had some fog, and we could only see like 10 feet in front of us.

I made a "Hi Mom" sign just for my summit shot.

Me on the summit of Mt. Shasta 14,179 feet elevation.

Mt. Ellinor 05/19/2012

Mt. Ellinor part of the Olympic mountain range.

Here is the SE Chute, you can barely see the glissade track all the way down.

Still climbing, lake Cushman in the backround.

Andrew Leaf, summit in sight.

Andrew Leaf and I on the summit of Mt. Ellinor.   It was pretty packed, we glissaded down pretty much the whole snow slope of the mountain.  My longest glissade to date.  Mt. Ellinor elevation 5,952 ft.

Some of pictures were taken by my climb team and are copyrighted.

Table Mountain 05/13/2012

I decided to go on a Portland Hikers Meetup hike for Mother's Day. Not the best way to spend my Mother's Day but I have Mt. Elinor, Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta coming up in the next two weeks so I need to stay in shape.  Elevation: 3,417 ft.

I packed 6 liters of water and my rope among others things in my pack. My pack weighing at least 35 lbs. Here's the North side of Mt. Hood.

It was the hottest weather of the year high 80's. Here's Mt. Adams which I plan to climb in July.

Here's is Mt. St. Helen's from Table Mountain's summit. Andrew and Karen, Liz, and Amy and a bunch of other Mazamas are there for their annual Mother's Day Mt. St. Helen's climb.

Here's a little campsite which I may use when I come up on the Skamania County bus and camp and train.

Indian Point 05/06/2012

I went hiking with Karen and Andrew to Indian Point off of the Herman Creek trail.

This was a good hike, elevation gain around 2,800 feet. Here is Indian Point where Andrew and I scrambled to the summit.

Mt. Adams from the summit.

Mt. St. Helen's form the summit.

Karen and Andrew on Indian Point where we ate a long lunch. There was no wind, which are rare blessing in the Columbia Gorge.

Here's is the PCT crossing over Herman Creek.

Tryon Creek Orgins 05/04/2012

Barry and I went on a walk to find the Tryon Creek origins.  We parked on Multnomah Village.

Here's in the Capitol Highway Viaduct.

It was a bit rainy but we waited and chose the perfect time to go.  We crossed the viaduct.

This is where we think the origins of Tryon Creek start.  Tryon Creek comes from a springs which is on private property.  This is the closest way we figured it came out, around SW Spring Garden and 37th.

Tryon Creek starts small traveling though culverts in back yards but it incorporates and number of smaller streams and creeks as well as the natural runoff from the valley.

 

Here Tryon Creek is has picked up steam.

Here Tryon Creek and Falling Creek merge.

 

Here we are right by Marshall Park and then it continues on to Tryon Creek State Park and then into the Willamette.

Wildwood Trail Zoo to St. John's Bridge 05/02/2012

I decided to hike the Wildwood Trail from the zoo.

Here's the bridge at Hoyt Arboretum.

Here's Pittock Mansion, I haven't been up here form quite a few years.   Good urban view of some hikes we've done.

Macleay Park from Cornell.

The Witches Castle

A good map of Forrest Park, I had a map but this one was a little better with more of the side trials listed.

It was getting a little late, and I've never gone on the Ridge Trial so I took it.

I was happily surprised with a great view of the St. John's Bridge and Mt. St. Helen's.  

The stairs going up to the Ridge trail from Highway 30.

This guy had his dog on his backpack and was biking down Highway 30.

Herd of Deer on SW Portland 04/27/2012

Barry and I went on our weekly walk from Riverdale High School to Jackson Middle School and through Maricara Natural Area in SW Portland.  Imagine our surprise to see wildlife.  Here's a youtube link to Herd of Deer in SW Portland

There were other strange thing on this urban hike including this rhododendron which was at least two stories.

University of Portland 03/30/2012

Barry and I went up to University of Portland to hike.

West Hall

Statue of Sacajawea.,York, William Clark.

The Cascade General Dry Docks.

What could this be used for?

Barry on the trail.

Here's a long culvert going into a creek, and then to the Willamette River.

Here is a train, we may have been trespassing, on Railroad Property.

Railroad bridge

Mock's Landing