Today's Signs Of Adventure takes me back to my 2012 trip to Oregon to climb Mount Hood. While we never got onto the mountain due to terrible conditions, we did get to visit Crater Lake National Park. Crater Lake is the only national park in Oregon, and one of my favorite parks in the Country.
For years, I had dreamed about visiting Seattle. There was some sort of allure to this far flung pacific northwest city that drew in my imagination. Maybe it was the volcanic peaks of the cascade range looming nearby, or maybe it was the nostalgia I got from listening to the nineties grunge bands, but whatever
Photo courtesy of Landon B Faulkner. Fellow adventure junkie and advocate of beards, Landon Faulkner and his cousin, Andrew Faulker are going to climb the two tallest peaks in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California, but they won’t be doing it just for their own enjoyment, no, they will be climbing to
Last June, after a disappointing shutdown by Mount Hood, we departed Government Camp Oregon, and headed south into California. We figured if Hood was going to shut us down, we still had to climb a mountain, it was in our blood, it was what we came so many miles to do. Shasta had been an
Two years ago, I took on the challenge of Mount Rainier, the most glaciated mountain in the lower 48 states. I always wanted to climb that mountain, and my dream was about to be realized. Since not everyone is fortunate enough to achieve their dreams, I decided that I would climb this for charity, thus
It has been nearly two years since I climbed to the summit of Mount Rainier in Washington, but I think about it all the time. It was one of the proudest moments of my life and through that experience I met a lot of great people, all with different reasons for being there. In this
I know i've shared this photo before, but after a little tweaking and more thinking about it, I had to share it again. It was late August, but you wouldn't know that by looking at menagerie of snow and ice that surrounded me. The temperature was in the high twenties, and the winds, light and
Well folks, after over 3000 miles and nearly four days in the car, we have made it to the pacific northwest. Last night we made an unplanned stop in Seattle due to some nasty weather down in Smith Rocks that would have made for a soggy night of camping. So we did what any intelligent
If you missed yesterday's post, check it out. I talk about staying awake during long solo road trips! Good stuff! Check it here. Daily Photo - Sitar Man While I was exploring Seattle last year, I made sure to spend some time at Pike Place. While crossing a street near the original Starbucks I spotted
Daily Photo - Sunrise At Columbia Crest After hours and hours of marching up the glaciated slopes of Mount Rainier, we had arrived at the crater rim. In total darkness we now sat within the caldera of an active stratovolcano. Still glowing with the excitement of a kid on Christmas, I through my down jacket