so much new stuff

by alex on February 8, 2010

I forgot to mention this on my recent podcasts, but I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures from hikes so far this year. Here are links to a few sets:

White River Snowshoe – Jan. 27

I took a Wednesday off to go snowshoeing with Anna from PortlandHikers. She’ll be on my show soon to talk about this trip. As you can see, the weather was incredible.

Larch Mountain Loop – Jan. 30/31

My first overnight of the year. I’m going to try to go camping at least once a month every month in 2010. I started the day with Ron (the winner of my first photo contest) and some of his friends — they headed back down after lunch and I continued up toward Larch Mountain. We started at Horsetail Falls in the top right of the map, I followed Trail 424 to Larch Mountain, then I went down the other side on Trail 441 and found a camping spot at the green dot. The next morning I continued down 441 to Multnomah Falls and finished the loop by heading northeast along Trail 400. (Click the map to enlarge.)

Silver Star Mountain – Feb. 7

I was thinking about doing a hike in the Gorge, but the weather was supposed to be nice and clear, so my friend and I decided to do Silver Star Mountain. The weather was not clear.

Also, I added a new tab to the navigation bar on my website: 2010 Hike Log. You can see where I’ve gone and how many miles I’ve done so far this year.

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Hike Yeah Podcast 34

by admin on February 5, 2010

Part 1 of 2: Dennis Stilwell, creator of NWHiker.com, joins me in the studio to talk about his hiking history and his website.

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urban hiking photo contest winner

January 31, 2010

Congratulations to Cheryl, the winner of the Hike Yeah Photo Contest 4. I was looking for pictures of urban hiking, and I thought her picture really captured it. Cheryl will get a signed copy of Laura Foster’s book Portland Hill Walks. Laura helped me judge this contest and she was impressed by the variety of the submissions. [...]

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Hike Yeah Podcast 33

January 29, 2010

Laura Foster joins me for a fun show about urban hiking. She’s the author of Portland City Walks, Portland Hill Walks, and Walk There.

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more about Trailkeepers and PortlandHikers

January 28, 2010

Jeff, my guest last week, is a co-founder of both Trailkeepers of Oregon and PortlandHikers.org. Here’s a little more info about those organizations.
TKO’s mission is:
Inspiring action for the protection and enhancement of the Oregon hiking experience through advocacy, stewardship, education and outreach.
They’re running a Trail Skills College in April that Jeff and I talked about [...]

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Hike Yeah Podcast 32

January 22, 2010

A conversation with Jeff Statt, one of the founders of PortlandHikers.org and Trail Keepers of Oregon, about hiking with kids and why it’s important for hikers to participate in trail maintenance.

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photo contest 4

January 16, 2010

Can you believe it’s been two months since the last Hike Yeah Photo Contest? Well, here’s another chance to show off your pictures and win a cool prize.
The topic time this around is urban hiking/walking: city views that you can to walk to, city parks you can walk through, etc.  As usual, this is open [...]

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a little more about last week’s show

January 15, 2010

Thanks again to Adam Sawyer last week for being a really fun guest and a very willing guinea pig. We had tons to talk about, and I hope he can stop by again in the next few months. I have an open invitation to PortlandHikers.org people to come on my show, and Adam (he goes [...]

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Hike Yeah Podcast 31

January 15, 2010

Paul Gerald is back on with me to talk about showshoeing. He recently wrote an article in The Oregonian about snowshoeing. It’s always a fun conversation with Paul.

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new pictures

January 13, 2010

I finally got around to uploading more pictures on Flickr. I’ve gone on quite a few hikes since my last batch of uploads, but I’ve neglected to put up new photos from those hikes.
Here’s a quick list of recent hikes:

Angel’s Rest
Hamilton Mountain
Multnomah-Wahkeena Loop
Eagle Creek to High Bridge
Trillium Lake Loop (snowshoe)
King’s Mountain
Rock of Ages and Triple [...]

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