Mount Hood – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Climbing the 16 Major Northwest Peaks (1996-2006)

2018-07-252022-02-17Posted in Northern California, Oregon, Other Adventures, WashingtonTagged Glacier Peak Washington, Mazamas, Mount Curtis Gilbert, Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Shasta, Mount Washington Oregon, Mountaineering, Oregon

Up until 2008, our adventures were retained only as memories and on 35mm slides. While our memories may have faded (just a bit), the slides haven’t – and we have a lot of them. So we’re digitizing a select few to bring some of our past adventures into the 21^st Century. The photos below are some of those old slides.

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Mountains (August 2017)

2017-08-052022-01-30Posted in MontageTagged California, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, Mount Hood Wilderness, Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Shasta, Oregon, Red Buttes Wilderness, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Washington, Yocum Ridge

But I shall go down from this airy space,
this swift white peace, this stinging exultation.
And time will close about me,
and my soul stir to the rhythm of the daily round.
Yet, having known, life will not press so close,
and always I shall feel time ravel thin about me;
For once I stood
In the white windy presence of eternity.

Eunice Tietjens (1917)

Patrick Y. Wang (1977 – 2005)
Andrea “Andy” Basque (1963 – 2008)

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