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Mountain Worship
Adventure Log Date: January 11th, 2013 Location: Artist Point, End of Mount Baker Highway Goal: A sunset view over Mount Baker Temperature: Between 14 and 20 degrees Farenheit Adventure Soundtrack: Recordings of Grateful Dead concerts recorded during their Spring tour of 1972 in Europe. Words of Inspiration: Goin’ where the wind don’t blow […]
Dogs in Middle Earth
This isn’t really Middle Earth. Or New Zealand. But the rocky outcrops and enormous boulder fields up near Artist’s Point at at the end of the Mount Baker Highway are not unlike those of the Misty Mountain Hop or the mountains of Rohan. The brilliant fall colors, which visit us when we’re lucky in October, […]
Clair de Lune
A sublime walk up on the mountain. You can force the meditation scene, the peacock feather ceremony that’s supposed to make it all better. The search for the sublime is rendered impossible when you seek it out. But sometimes the weather cooperates, a slight glitch in the system makes it warmer on the mountain than […]
November in the North Cascades
November brought a dusting of snow up in the mountains. The first signs of winter began at about mile post marker 40 on the Mt. Baker highway, somewhere around 2200 feet up. I didn’t bring enough clothing with me. No gloves. I was still wearing my autumn hat and hadn’t brought out the full winter, […]
Mushroom hunting with dogs in the October light
In a place marked by mazes of logging roads I had to try every one, so the dogs and I went up a new spur off the 38, a dirt National Forest road hidden off Mosquito Lake Road that brings you pretty close to the Twin Sisters, two masses of dolomite and small glaciers. We […]
