Humboldt Redwoods State Park – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Oregon Coast Redwoods 10-Oct-2016

2016-10-102022-01-29Posted in Hiking, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Southern OregonTagged Brookings Oregon, Day Hiking, Hiking, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Oregon Redwoods, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Redwoods3 Comments

This weather forecast was calling for rain by the end of the week, with up to 10 inches in 24 hours predicted for places on the Southern Oregon Coast (a forecast that has since been upgraded to “…more than the typical rainfall for the entire month of October, and for the Medford airport, could be the wettest 5 day period in October since 1962…” {the year of the infamous Columbus Day Storm}). With this ominous prognostication in mind, we decided to make a run for the coast and do a couple of short, but unique, hikes that had been on the edge of our to do list for awhile.

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Wine, Trails, and 40 Years in Napa Valley 20/24-Sep-2016

2016-09-262022-01-29Posted in Hiking, Northern CaliforniaTagged California, Day Hiking, Hiking, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Ken Stanton, Mount Saint Helena, Napa Valley, Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, Table Rock Trail1 Comment

The LovedOne’s sister and brother-in-law are wine affectionados and when they decided to come out West for a week of wine tasting in California’s wine-obsessed Napa Valley, we agreed to join them there for a small family reunion. We drove to St. Helena, California along Highway 101 so we could visit Humboldt Redwoods State Park enroute. For me, an equally important part of this trip was to finally meet-up with an old friend and climbing partner – Ken Stanton – who I’d kept in touch with, but hadn’t actually seen in person, in over 40 years!

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