Lost Creek Longhouse Chapter 3: Settling In
(click here for Chapter 2) It had been a warm, clear day when we started Saturday, but by mid afternoon the sky had gone slate-gray and opened up on us. We made camp in a torrential downpour. Mike had to leave before we were done setting up; Jason, Robert, and I...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Good Morning
2/1/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast, relatively dry, no wind. Somewhere behind the clouds the full moon is hiding. 42F (5.5C) is pretty damned warm for before sunrise on the first day of February. It was a quiet Sunday morning until the folks living in the RV...
Good Morning
1/31/26 6:00 40F (4.4C) Calm, cloudy, dry. It is a dark morning. Niether moon nor stars can pierce the cloud cover. The only light comes from the glare of the neighbor's paranoid light. Walter has returned from his tour of the perimeter. The rooster crowing...
Good Morning
1/30/26 7:30 40F (4.4C) Calm air, fog, not raining. Yesterday it rained all day. Not hard, but persistently. Wood smoke hung on the ground, clinging to the trees and pooling in the low spots and swales in the orchards, mixing with the light fog....
Good Morning
1/29/26 6:30 34F (1C) Cloudy and raining. It is a sodden, drizzly morning. Even the owl, calling through the darkness, sounds wet.
Good Morning
1/28/26 6:15 28F (-2.2C) Dark, silent, cold, with a thin overcast and light freezing rain. The deck is pimpled with ice. Only a couple stars pierce the gloom. I am anticipating a trip to the dentist with some trepidation. Good morning. ...
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