OK….you can get over your laughing now

I got really bored this winter….r-e-a-l-l-y bored.  So what do you do when you are shut-in waiting for backpacking season to start,  and you are

r-e-a-l-l-y bored?  You go to Bigfoot internet sites and read  personal encounter stories.

I TOLD YOU TO STOP LAUGHING!

Yep…you [...]

I have been trying to get back out into the woods for over a month.  Life and weather have not been working in my favor lately.  It has been frustrating knowing that backpacking season in the Pacific Northwest is coming to a rapid close.  The clock has been ticking and Winter is approaching.  There is [...]

When I write up a trip report I am always torn between just giving a technical account of my trip out for those readers who might be interested in doing the same route, or only writing about the interesting, silly or scary things that happened to me on my journey.  Since I backpack in a different way [...]

Woof bark Mount St. Helens growl.…Oh sorry!  I forgot to speak English.

This is Bella reporting on the trip I took with “No Tread” (Ben) and Jenny this week.

Jenny is too busy with other stuff going on in her life to sit down and write the report, so she asked me to do it. [...]