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Walking the Moors

Walking the Moors

This is a post that originally appeared on my old website in August 2014. It's one of the posts that was too large or complicated to be migrated to my new blog platform in 2018, and I'm steadily (well, erratically) migrating those old posts manually so

Sauk Mountain

Nine years ago, I had a post on my old blog entitled "Alice Knows What To Do," about an incident that happened on a hike at Sauk Mountain in the North Cascades. In this post, I've included the full text of the original post and added

McGuire Lookout

McGuire Lookout

In 1923, a well-windowed wood cabin was erected on top of McGuire Mountain, for the purpose of detecting forest fires in the area around Eureka, Montana. Eureka sits in a valley between mountain ranges just south of the Roosville border crossing between the United States and Canada. McGuire Mountain Lookout

Summit Lake

The view of Mount Rainier from Summit Lake is a classic, used on countless souvenir postcards and calendars. The popularity of this hike makes it a tough place to find any solitude, but by going early in the morning on a weekday we managed to have the peak to ourselves

Earl Peak

Earl Peak offers amazing views in all directions, but you have to work to get there: 7.5 miles round trip and about 3600 feet of elevation gain. We hiked to the top on a beautiful fall day, and although some clouds blew in and obscured our view from the

Skyline Divide Trail

Skyline Divide Trail

Skyline Divide offers spectacular 360-degree views of Mount Baker (Koma Kulshan) and surrounding areas that begin just two miles up the steep trail, and it's outside North Cascades National Park so dogs are allowed. For info on how to get there see Washington Trails Association: Skyline Divide [https:

Rock Creek Trail

Rock Creek Trail

This rarely traveled hike spans the full range of central Cascades terrain, from the banks of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River up through second-growth and old growth forests to spectacular Snow Lake in the Alpine Lake Wilderness Area. On a sunny summer day, Snow Lake may have hundreds of visitors