Oh, you are definitely a native and have spread out your locations to take in some of the grandest scenery. I've only been here just shy of 50 (YIKES) years. Live near Greenlake. Maybe I should have thrown in that I've climbed both Mt Rainier and Mt Baker as well as the other volcanoes. Adams twice, St Helens before and after eruption - after on skis. Adams the second time partially on skis - it was boilerplate!
Tis a wonderful place.
Post some photos...
In response to your #306 post —
That's so cool that you've summited all of Washingtons' epic volcano peaks!
I always wanted to climb Mt Rainier & Mt Adams & Mt St Helen... but never did, alas, I guess I was always too busy either upland bird hunting nearly every weekend, from Sept 1 thru Jan./early Feb, or training or field-trialing (thru my 20's & 30's & 40's; grew-up doing that, so was really into that for decades), or skiing, and btwn those seasons, fly-fishing and/or salmon fishing all spring & summer every year.
Looking back, I
should've had an interest in doing that back in my 20's, while I spent two summers working for the US Forest Service as a Wilderness Ranger, (which was the USFS official title –for what was really– wilderness area garbage collectors, who's other tasked mission was to attempt to share and educate the visiting public on the vital importance of 'No Trace Ethics' & 'Leave no trace'... hiking & camping, during our encounters with them)... while patrolling the high alpine & trail-less areas; one summer in the Pasayten Wilderness, near the North Cascades, and the Goat Rocks Wilderness, SE of Mt. Rainier, and one in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, from Snoq. to Stevens Pass.
Those would've been the years
I should've wanted to climb Washington's massive volcano summits; really don't recall why I didn't consider doing so. It's a mystery to me.
But I did hike up to Camp Muir one day!
And climbed some various peaks & glaciers in the North Cascades & Alpine Lakes wildernesses, that is, when I wasn't fly-fishing.
Anyways, that's
sooooo cool about your summiting all the volcanos! Really, really cool! If the weather was good, the panoramas and experiences must've been spectacular!
Btw, our family used to actually drive up to
Paradise Inn @
Mt. Rainier to go skiing, in the 60's! Where you could have a wonderful time skiing all day long—and where I thought there was a T-Bar, though maybe not, but a rope tow or two—between warmups by the cracking fireplace of the lodge, and of course you could stay overnight in the lodge, as our family did several times, enjoying the historic Paradise Inn atmosphere and legendary breakfast's & brunches.
Though for several Christmases... we did the same at
Timberline Lodge @
Mt. Hood, in what were, to my sister's & me, the most magical Christmases of our lives, while staying each Christmas week in either the lodge's, or nearby absolutely magical log cabins, with little covered porches, and w/stone fireplaces, surrounded by trees, and nearly buried in the typically massive snowfalls, though accessible through the tall snowbanks.
Our parents would smuggle all our Xmas presents down there in the trunk of the Buick. And string Xmas lights inside & out, and set-up a Xmas tree that they'd bought somewhere between Portland and Mt Hood.
I remember that all of the various children—from families that were staying @
Timberline Lodge for Xmas—would gather up in the Lodge's loft in the evenings, where the lodge owner's daughters—baby-sitting us all—would have us all sit in a circle, in our jammies, while telling us scary ghost stories, while all the parents socialized, or played Bridge or something, down in the restaurant area.
And
that should date me (yikes)!
And I seem to recall that there were even lines of ski buses parked alongside the 20' or so high snow banks @
Paradise Inn. But maybe I'm mixing memories up, as we were typically skiing every weekend, all winter long, throughout my youth, at either Stevens or Snoqualmie or Alpental or Hyak (the original name for farthest ski area to the east @ Snoq. summit, by the reservoir), or Crystal Mountain or Mission Ridge, with occasional trips to Jackson Hole, Wyoming & Sun Valley, Idaho & Mt Bachelor, Oregon; though I think I only recall one trip to Mt Baker.
It's embarrassing to admit that I took it all for granted throughout my youth.
Over time, I've come to realize just how fortunate we were.
But time just gets away from us.
P. S. - No Fold photos... so I wouldn't hold it against you if you were to ban me from this thread.
Just countless envelopes of those old developed photo prints & slides buried away in various shoeboxes & family basements & drawers &c, like most, ehem, (older) people have.
I've been meaning to take a chance on trying-out one of those color photo/slide/film/negative scanning Epson Perfection V600's. Even though there's a small % of poor reviews, as with all things. Have you had any experiences with any photo/slide/film/negative scanners?
And another btw, we used to live just a half a block south of the south side of the Lower Woodland Zoo park, just above the baseball fields, in that hillside neighborhood, in-between Aurora — and that road that slants northeasterly down from the Aurora bridge to Green Lake.
Okay, I'll endeavor to stop polluting your nice Pixel Fold thread now.
Is that the Mukilteo ferry up in the distance?
As we've temporarily moved to west michigan to care for our 90+ yr old relatives, while over-seeing their estates, &c.
I especially enjoyed the hour long massage!! Headed back into the pool shortly!!
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