Posts

Journal entries from the road, and lesson logs from the table — newest first.

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  2026-08-16 The mountain stayed in the cloud

  Two days of rain on the west side of Glacier, a whiteout at the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road, and then a third day that gave up a grizzly, a bald eagle, a moose, and twelve miles of broken road in to Many Glacier.

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  2026-07-26 The morning the eagle had breakfast

  A week around the Olympic loop on US 101: lavender in Sequim, a crab boil at Lake Crescent, an eagle hunting off a Makah beach, and a six-mile walk up the Hoh to look for one square inch of silence.

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  2026-07-06 We got up early for the Skyline Trail

  A full park on Sunday, an early start on Monday, marmots and mountain goats on the Skyline Trail, and momos in Ashford served by a man who has climbed the mountain dozens of times.

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  2026-07-04 The mountain came out over the Elbe train

  Fog on the drive up from St. Helens country, a clear sighting of Rainier from the open-air car, peaches like water balloons, and a firework barge going together on Mineral Lake.

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  2026-06-27 Our first big adventures: the South loop

  Eighteen days from Portland south to Lassen, Lava Beds, and Crater Lake, then back through Bend, and an air conditioner with its own ideas about when to run.

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  2026-06-23 A small Crater Lake on the beach at Diamond Lake

  A day off the rim: shallow water, a sandcastle version of the lake next door, and the drive back to camp in the long Cascade light.

• 2026-05-16 Odometer math

  Estimating arrival times, average speeds, and fuel range, using the dashboard as a worksheet.