Surprise Lake & Clipper Mine
On this hike, we did the fairly short trek (just over 5 miles round trip) up to Surprise Lake, located off an old logging road just across the Carbon River from Mt Rainier National Park. Near Old Baldy Mountain, it’s...
Author: Rob Portinga
Point Defiance Beach
I’ve done Point Defiance before.. you can watch the previous video if you want to see it… but this time we took a different route. Instead of being up on the trails, we timed things with a low tide and...
Umtanum Creek
We wandered over to the other side of the mountains today… the Yakima River area, specifically along Umtanum Creek. The climate on the East side of the Cascades is very different than on the West, more arid, much warmer, and...
Reflections - 9 Years Later
Nine years. What seems like a lifetime ago that went by in a blink of an eye. It was 9 years ago today I “went under the knife” and had gastric bypass surgery. While I will be the first to...
Reflection Lakes - Mt Rainier National Park
It started out 3 years ago at Gold Creek, then last year we went up to Paradise… this year we enjoyed an Snowshoe Trek/Easter Dinner.. this time in the middle of Reflection Lakes at Mt Rainier National Park. Besides a...
Deception Pass
Deception Pass, an area that got it’s name from Captain George Vancouver in 1792, was today’s destination. The trip ended up a couple miles shorter than the originally planned 9 miles because we just got too swept up in all...
Fort Clatsop - Fort to Sea Trail
Today we joined the Mountain View Hikers again, this time down in Oregon. We started out at Fort Clatsop, where Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 18015-06, and we hiked a trail that roughly followed their pathway between the...
Larch Mtn - Capitol State Forest
A quick, solo day-hike in Capitol State Forest. There’s no WTA or other sites with much info on the trails I took today, but you can find out more about Capitol State Forest on the WA DNR website: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/Capitol
The Wake Up Call: Obesity in the News (re-broadcast)
This is a repost of a live broadcast from Mar 18, 2014. Back then I was a co-host on a local AM show, The Wake Up Call… and was looking at way to cover additional topics when we weren’t on...