Ultimate Guide to Backpacking the Ozette Triangle in Olympic National Park
Looking for a relaxed, beginner-friendly coastal backpacking route in Olympic National Park? Look no further than the Ozette Triangle! The Ozette Triangle (also called the Ozette Loop or Cape Alava Loop) is an equilateral triangle-shaped route beginning near Lake Ozette on the northwest coast of the Olympic Peninsula. At just over 9 miles in distance,…
Two Girls Roving: Day 13 – Columbia River Gorge & Hood River Fruit Loop
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 4, 2024 Alas, it was…
Two Girls Roving: Day 12 – Ruby Beach & Very Big Trees
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 3, 2024 Our final day…
Two Girls Roving: Day 11 – Ozette Triangle Backpacking & Hoh Rainforest
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 2, 2024 Another damp morning…
Two Girls Roving: Day 10 – Ozette Triangle Backpacking Cape Alava to Sand Point
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 1, 2024 What a drastic…
Two Girls Roving: Day 9 – Ozette Triangle Backpacking to Cape Alava
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 31, 2024 In the early…
Two Girls Roving: Day 8 – Sol Duc Falls & Cape Flattery
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 30, 2024 Waking up in…
Two Girls Roving: Day 7 – Hurricane Hill & Sol Duc Valley in Olympic National Park
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 29, 2024 Our Olympic Peninsula…
Two Girls Roving: Day 6 – Deception Pass, Ebey’s Landing, Coupeville, and Fort Casey Historical State Park
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 28, 2024 After several days…
Two Girls Roving: Day 5 – Baker Lake
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 27, 2024 Our trip was…
Two Girls Roving: Day 4 – Newhalem, Diablo Lake, and Baker Lake
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 26, 2024 With a generous…
Two Girls Roving: Day 3 – Maple Pass, North Cascades National Park, and Ross Lake National Recreation Area
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 25, 2024 It was this…
Two Girls Roving: Day 2 – Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site and Grand Coulee Dam
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! August 24, 2024 Up before sunrise…
Washington Escapades Part 2: Burley Mountain Lookout, Suntop Lookout, and Mount Rainier National Park
A sign of a good vacation is when you come home even more exhausted than when you left, right? My latest adventure to Washington sure felt like that! The main objective of the trip was summiting Mount Adams, but my bestest adventure bud, Eric, and I were just not just going to stop at a…
Washington Escapades Part 1: Fort Vancouver, Beacon Rock, Bonneville Dam, and House Rock
A sign of a good vacation is when you come home even more exhausted than when you left, right? My latest adventure to Washington sure felt like that! The main objective of the trip was summiting Mount Adams, but my bestest adventure bud, Eric, and I were just not just going to stop at a…
Redemption on Mount Adams
2 years and 8 days after it all going wrong the first time, I jammed my ice axe into the summit of Mount Adams. That above is the TLDR version… for those wanting more detail, here we go! Mount Adams is one of five volcanoes in Washington, and is part of the greater Cascade Volcanic…
2023 Adventuring Year-in-Review
In the past I’m not sure how I’ve felt about year-in-review posts, but I think of all years, it is needed for 2023 for personal reasons. It is so easy to get bogged down in the minutia and mundane of every day life that one forgets exactly how awesome things were! January For many years my…
Mount Saint Helens – Third Time’s a Charm!
Oh man, where do I even start on this one?! (It is going to be long, so get comfy!) To say it was a long time coming with a lot of weird anxiety around it would be an understatement. Leading up to it I was 0 for 2 on attempts in 2022… heck, never even…
Whirlwind Washington – Part 2: Hurricane Ridge, Point Wilson, Mount Rainier, and Billy Frank Jr Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Time to wrap up talking about my busy week and a half I spent in Washington in May 2022! (Yes, I blogged these incredibly after the fact, and I do not even have an excuse!). You can read Part 1 here, which covered fun stuff like the Hoh Rainforest and Rialto Beach. Let’s first talk…
Whirlwind Washington – Part 1: Quinault Big Sitka, Hoh Rainforest, and Rialto Beach
Well, aren’t these blog posts just ridiculously delayed or what?! In May 2022 I spent a week and a half in Washington. I had flown out to climb Mount Saint Helens, but since that only takes a day, there were more adventures to be had! Not sure why it took me so long to get…
2022 Adventuring – A Year in Review
I’ve always seem to be here or there over the last decade, but damn, 2022 was a doozy! What a year, what a year!! Nine states (including the District of Columbia – new for me!). Thirty new National Park Service units. 52 Hike Challenge blown out of the water and completed months ahead of schedule.…
Learning to Fail on Mount Adams
“No one can call themselves an experienced mountaineer unless they have turned back unsuccessfully from some of their summit attempts. Climbing is a game of knowing when to press on and when to bail, and these choices can mean the difference between great success and needless death. It is a misnomer, of course, to call…
Washington Hiked: Mount Rose
Lemonade out of lemons… or because my brain is wonky, lemons out of lemonade as I kept saying. With weather that had moved in, the Mount Saint Helens climb was called off (I mean, it dropped like 38″ of snow… we weren’t being wimpy, we were being smart!). Eric and Jen debated which mountain we…
MLK Adventure Weekend
Take the chance, buy the plane tickets, wake up in strange places! A chance “follow” on Instagram led to reconnecting with a long lost friend and proceeding to plan all the adventures. With an upcoming long weekend, I nabbed flights to Portland, Oregon on sale, tossed on the brand new mountaineering boots and stuffed clothes…
PNW Teaser – Part 4: Cape Disappointment & Everything along the way back to the airport
Our final day, and we were sad. The weather decided to match our mood, and it was pouring rain as we stepped out of our cozy room at Ocean Shores Resort. Such melancholy 😦 We would have a few hours of driving to reach our first destination of the day, Cape Disappointment. We set out…
PNW Teaser – Part 3: Marymere Falls, Ruby Beach, Kalaloch Beach, and Ocean Shores
When there are just too many photos for one post… Continuing where we left off in Part 2… Marymere Falls! Janice expertly squeezed our wide body sports car into one of the last spots in the crowded parking lot at the Storm King Ranger Station, and we set off for a three mile hike among…
PNW Teaser Part 2: Point No Point Lighthouse, Olympic National Park, and Madison Falls
You know its a good adventure when it is so jam packed that a single day must be split into two blog posts due to all the amazing photos! This day would start Janice’s and my adventure around the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. I had been up the 101 to Port Angeles about a decade…
PNW Teaser – Part 1: Portland and Mount Saint Helens
Hey, remember airplanes and traveling for work? Well, I suppose some people never gave up those items, but the last time I was on an airplane I was leaving a meeting at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta where I watched them initiate emergency operations for that new coronavirus circulating… it was January 2020.…
The Adventuring Heidi 