Category: Backpacking

Scary (a little late)

Emergency “Food”

This is one of the scariest photos I have taken. I was going to publish it for Halloween, but got distracted. While there are a couple of empty cans in this group, there are also several than are unopened. I found these in the Boulder Shelter on the Upper Dungeness trail (in the Olympic National Forest) … they were left there for emergency food. Who knows how long they have been there. Notice there are a couple cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew.

I would be scared to open any of these, let alone eat them. We had discussions about what opening them would be like and whether it would be an actual explosion or not.

I am going to be doing some posting when I have something worth posting, for now. We’ll see how that works.

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Lupine Along the Trail

Lupine Along the Trail

Walking through fields of lupine up in the high country is one of my favorite things. It’s especially nice when it’s not wet and overgrowing the trail. Then your boots get wet … and usually your socks. It can be uncomfortable the rest of the day. Fortunately, this was dry and away from the trail. Another close up “panorama”.

Most of the white flowers here are American Bistort with one or two strays mixed in.

This was taken on the High Divide trail in Olympic National Park.

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A Little Bit of Self Promotion

Mt Olympus from Bogachiel Pass

This is the photo that I chose for the cover of my hiking memiors: 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. I haven’t been able to get a book seller to carry the hard copy yet, but it is available as an eBook on the Amazon Kindle website.

I’ve got it priced low. By the way, if/when I get it available as a hard copy, I’ll let you all know. The 5.5″ x 8.5″ size is priced at $24.99 US and the interior photos are black and white. The Kindle version is priced at $2.99 US and the images are all in color (except for early images that I took on B&W film.) It is available globally.

Here’s the link (or search for “60 Years of Hiking”):

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Panoramas

Heart Lake, Olympic National Park

I have been working for the last several months at putting together my hiking memiors. The title is “60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics”, and yes, that is how long I’ve been doing hikes and backpacks into the park. Since I always had a camera with me on those trips, I have spent hours going through all the images and selecting ones to include. One of the surprises was when I realized that there were several that I had taken with the idea that I might “paste them together” to create panoramas. That was difficult to do back in the film days … digital processing eventually made it as easy as pushing a button. These images are ones that I had never taken the time to paste together … so were new surprises for me. The one above is of Heart Lake on the approach to the High Divide. Below is the view of the Upper Hoh River valley from the middle of the High Divide, looking southeast. Mt Olympus is just to the right of the image … I had created the panorama of that one earlier, but missed this combination. (These were taken with an early digital camera … but before there was easy to use software to stitch them together.)

And when (if) the book is available as an eBook for easy download, I will provide the link.

The Upper Hoh River Valley, Olympic National Park
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The Upper Dungeness Basin

Home Lake in the Upper Dungeness Basin

These photos were taken from scans of photos that I took back years ago. Fortunately, I had shared prints with a friend and he still had them after my digital files were lost in a change to a new editing/organizing program (after which point I developed a significantly more thorough backup system). The Upper Dungeness Valley is outside of the Olympic National Park in the Buckhorn Wilderness.

View of the west side of the Mt Constance – Warrior Peak group from Upper Dungeness Basin
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