Tag: Photography

Update

Sierra Nevadas from the East in Spring

Greetings, Blog Followers.

I wanted to provide an update. I have recovered from my bicycle crash of August 25th much quicker than I was led to believe by the medical staff at the time. This is not due to any personal healing power of my own, but rather, I believe, due to the location of my rib injury: lower back rather than center front (like people get from deploying air bags).

Regardless, I an pleased to say that I am almost back to normal health and have been able to sell one of my two e-bikes … the other one (actually, the one I crashed), I’m keeping. I haven’t climbed back on it yet, but will soon.

I’m still reassessing my blog activity. After over 10 years of posting every other day, I am looking at changing the frequency of my posts. On that, I wil keep you … (ahem) posted.

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North Fork Skokomish Fire Before and After (4)


The Olympic National Park opened up the Staircase Rapids Loop Trail on July 8th for the first time since the fire in 2025 devastated the area. The valley of the North Fork Skokomish was one of my favorite locations and I went to take photos of the area on the 8th. Each set of photos shows the same location before and after. Some images aren’t exact matches … but I did as well as I could with the images I had. The Staircase Loop Trail leaves from the Staircase Ranger Station, runs 1 mile (1.6 KM), crosses the river (on a bridge that was protected from the fire) and returns back to the parking lot.

Big Boulder Before
Big Boulder After
Rock and Roots Before
Rocks and Roots After
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Geese Taking Off

Geese Taking Off

I saw this small group of geese taking off at the Nisqually Natural Wildlife Refuge (AKA Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge) just east of Olympia, WA. There were thousands (?) on the ground there, but these five seemed to have a group of their own.

A reminder:

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link (Click the “Get Book” button):

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