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by Rob Portinga · Published July 27, 2018 · Last modified August 1, 2018
I just got home the other day from the Obesity Action Coalition’s 7th Annual Your Weight Matters national convention, this year held in Denver Colorado. It was very good to be back, after having missed last year due to falling...
Sometimes it’s the journey, sometimes it’s the destination. And sometimes it’s not the destination you were shooting for. We started out with plans to start at Mowich Lake and head up to Tolmie Lookout (I talk briefly about my first...
A mid-week adventure. We were doing some scouting for possible dispersed camping sites for a group trip we have planned for late August, and discovered a number of great spots along the Bumping River in the William O. Douglas Wilderness area...
Today was a workout… We started at the Upper Big Quilcene trailhead and hiked just a bit shy of 6 miles up to Marmot Pass, gaining a little over 500 feet of elevation every mile. It’s not the steepest trek...
A small group of us had been planning this for a couple months, and lucked out weather wise. We did about a 4 mile trek along an old forest road that follows the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River to an area...
We hit a local favorite today, Capitol State Forest. We needed something nearby because of evening plans, so it’s great having this area with it’s variety of trails so close to home. We did a loop that took us along...
This is a repost of a live broadcast from Oct 1, 2014. Back when I was living in MN I was a co-host on a local AM show, The Wake Up Call… after Moving to WA I continued to work...
We stopped by Tolmie State Park near low tide, and saw sooooo many tiny crabs. Had fun just watching them doing their crabby thing. Besides the beach and about 3 miles of forest trail, Tolmie also has an underwater park...
Divorce after significant weight loss, in particular with bariatric surgery, is a topic I hear come up fairly often during support groups and in online forums. When it does, time and again a divorce rate of 80-85% keeps popping up....
This was a short hike, we looped around some trails at Guillemot Cove Nature Reserve, which includes the “Stump House”, a bit of a “house” carved out of an old cedar trunk. It’s rumored the Stump House was once used...
