Colleen Drake, AKA Teacup
Washakie Pass, Wind River Mountains 
Washakie Pass, Wind River Mountains 
Olympic Mountains 
Wind River Mountains
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Finding Strong
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickeled and Dimed Recently I purchased a home on the Olympic Peninsula, a place that is familiar to me and has felt very much like coming home. I wanted to be closer to my family, to…
In Praise of Pink
The photo of the beautiful rhododendron you see above was taken on one of my last backpacking trips two years ago. I love hiking the river valleys of the Olympics in June when the woodland flowers are in bloom. They bring light that filters through the forest canopy after a long gray winter in western…
Swinging in the Lane
And like Billy Bray I go my way, in and out of Shadow Creek, dancing, in a daze, to the twin silver trumpets of praise. Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek In my early twenties when I first started backpacking alone I got into the habit of tucking my thumbs underneath the shoulder straps…
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