Blast From the Past

Blast From the Past

Mike and Amy and I did a short wander in the Gifford Pinchot, hoping to find some boletes or some late season morels. Aside from a nice flush of Amanita, we got skunked.             We swung by South Prairie, but Disappearing Lake has...

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Lost Creek Longhouse Chapter 2: Setting Up

Lost Creek Longhouse Chapter 2: Setting Up

  (click here to go to Chapter One)   Our longhouse was essentially two tipis married with a ridgepole spanning the distance between them. Panels of canvas covered the center. This was the first time (and maybe the last) I attempted it. I brought thirty-two...

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Lost Creek Longhouse  Chapter 1: Getting There

Lost Creek Longhouse Chapter 1: Getting There

            Ultra-light camping is all well and good, but I had a somewhat different approach in mind for the expedition to Lost Creek. I wanted to build a longhouse. I wasn’t exactly sure how to put one together; I did know it would take all the canvas I had and a...

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A Quick Overnight

A Quick Overnight

 This piece first appeared  June 2018 as Meine Freiheit in Nr.38  of International Sidecar Traveller.         By Monday afternoon I knew something had to be done. Work was beginning to take its toll, and I still had the rest of the week to go....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/12/25 6:00 55F (12.7C) It seems dark this morning, even with the waning moon shining high above me. It is a tranquil dawn. Daylight seeps in from the east. A cricket and an owl sing a soft duet in the shadows.              ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/11/25 7:00 57F (13.8)C There is dew on the ground. Blue sky, with just a whisper of a breeze. No air traffic.                                       ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/10/25 6:00 56 (13.3) Clear blue sky. Maple leaves shiver in a faint breeze. The moon, three days past full, is shining through the oaks.                      ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/9/25 6:30 60F (15.5C) Calm with broken clouds. It's not raining, but quite wet from last night's downpour. A faint riffle of breeze sends a brief torrent of droplets raining down from the leaves.                  ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    9/8/25 5:00 50F (10C) The moon is behind the oaks, the sky is full of stars.                                                  ...

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