Go Primitive
North Cascades National Park is one of the least visited National Parks in the lower 48. Judging from the license plates in campgrounds and at trailheads, eight out of 10 visitors are Washingtonians, one is from California and the other
Washington’s Badlands It’s been almost two months exploring the Evergreen State, showing up at the Grand Coulee Dam on June 22nd where we discovered the Badlands of eastern Washington. Sunny, dry and 70 degrees, it was a long sleeved hiking,
Carlsbad has its under-otherworldly caverns, Bryce has its spooky hoodoos, Arches has its, well, arches but Rainier doesn’t Have, Rainier IS. Rainier is omnipresent. Whether its lurking in the clouds, looming behind the fog or lighting up the city, Rainier
After a day of head-in-the-clouds exploring the insurmountable Cascade Pass and Hidden Lakes trails of Marblemount, we backtracked to the National Park treasures of Ross and Diablo Lakes for some grand views from easier to reach places. It’s a 30
Nine out of the Top 10 hikes in Glacier National Park are on the covid-closed East side with no indication of opening. With an on-the-fly itinerary in play we narrowed our options … 200 miles south to Teton and Yellowstone,
We never read the books and we didn’t see the movies but our daughters were Twilight teens an when we heard the setting of Forks was a dozen miles from the second most visited site in Olympic National Park, we
The Dakotas have their Badlands, we call New Mexico the Radlands and eastern Washingtons’ early settlers named theirs the Scablands, aka “not suitable for farming.” Coulee City crush We did not anticipate spending a long week here in the scablands.
After an 11 hour day of traveling 140 miles in a 4WD Tundra, 200 miles flying in a Beechcraft 1900, 10 miles riding an electric SkyLink, 334 miles on Amtrak Cascades and 1/2 mile walk for a grand total of