Author: Mom
Pushing the Limits
I realize as I complete my packing list for our next big adventure, I haven’t written anything about our last adventure. How can that be I ask myself? This was an epic adventure. One filled wit... Read More
Ascending a Mountain
This year has been busy for us. The kids are interested in the outdoors more than ever right now, but between our work, new business ventures, biking, running, adventuring, and school (their school is... Read More
10-Days in Yosemite
The Twins Meet The Roadtrip We’ve not ventured more than 5 hours from Portland because Noah and Isabel were never car babies. During their first year of life, before they could talk they screame... Read More
Mountain Bikes, Rain, and …Perfection
The last trip of the season was on Memorial day a 3-day adventure to the Siouxan Trail. This trail came from my overnight backpacking book. I had ear-marked this as one of the first trails to do, but ... Read More
Memaloose Lake and Viewpoint
So we finally got out a second time this year or first time as the case may be. Every time we tried to go out, it was either raining and gross or we were incredibly busy with cleaning up the rental ho... Read More
Beach Reconnaissance Mission
Will’s favorite place to go is the beach. However our favorite past-time is backpacking. I struggle to find good places that combine both. So instead of having another epic fail we decided to st... Read More
8-Legged Creatures
Even though this was an epic fail… it still goes as a backpacking first and counts toward Noah and Isabel’s total miles. I started out 2014 hoping to get a lot of backpacking in. I scheduled e... Read More
Ollalie Lake: A Buzzing Adventures
Round-Trip Distance: 13 miles. What a great extended Labor Day weekend. We hiked 4-days through the Ollalie Lake Scenic Area seeing more than a dozen lakes, many we don’t know the names for... Read More
Eagle Creek Car Camping
We did our annual car camping trip with our good friend Susan. We went up on Friday and found our spot from last year. We also hiked into Punchbowl Falls. The next day we did the crazy hike with Will ... Read More
Silver Star Mountain
Round-Trip Distance: 6.6 miles. This was our first mountain summit! We climbed a Mountain this weekend. The kids did great on the hike. We had a rough start on both days, but as soon as we got moving... Read More
Olympic Park 4-Day Backpacking
Round-Trip Distance: ~16 miles. This was our first multi-day backpacking trip. Day 1: Hoh River Trail, 2.9 Miles We arrived late (like 5:30pm), but still decided we should hike in. This was the first... Read More
Soapstone Lake
Round-Trip Distance: 2.4 miles, plus 1 mile Smugglers Cove/Short Sand Beach sidetrip. This was one of those trips we probably should have waited for another day to do. The kids were not in the mood to... Read More
Badger Creek Wilderness
Round-Trip Distance: 5.8 miles, plus 2 miles at Multnomah Falls. We learned a bit from our first trip. One being that we hoped to find a little different scenery from the heavy fern forests we had bee... Read More
Preschool Yurt Camping
Bike/Hike: 7 miles Chickadee Montessori is a huge part of our lives. The kids go to school 5 days a week for half days and we love the teachers and kids. One of the dads, Robert, put together a campin... Read More
Salmonberry Trail Backpacking Begins
Round-trip Distance: 4.2 miles After a three class series at REI about backpacking we bought all our equipment and went on our first trip. We sold our popup camper and double stroller to pay for equip... Read More
Eagle Creek Campground
Round-Trip Distance: 3.5 mile, plus a 11 miles Bike/Hike to Cascade Locks This was the last camping trip of the season. Will had to stay home and work, so I took the kids to Eagle Creek Campground in... Read More
Redwoods Road Trip
This was a 10-day trip to the Redwoods. We stopped at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Elk Meadow in the Redwoods, the Avenue of the Giants, and Crater Lake. There is a lot to say about the trip, but IR... Read More
Traditions
We are big on traditions. Some of them we do each year include: Sauvie Island Farm Berry Picking Tulip Festival Camping (yep you knew that one) Going to the Zoo Street Fairs Gathering with Friends Zoo... Read More
Beachhouse
Our good friends Bill and Karen own a beach house and they are kind enough to let us stay from time to time. This time we towed our pop-up camper, still testing its road worthiness and stayed at the b... Read More
Popup Trailer Camping
Round-Trip Distance: 1 mile This was our first trip with our popup trailer. It was a test run for the Redwoods Roadtrip in August. Note: Anywhere in the gorge, you are gonna hear the trails. Chooo Cho... Read More
Boys Weekend
Will, Nate and Josh have gone on a couple boys only weekends and this time Noah was able to go along. Josh had to work, but Nate was there. They did a coast camping trip with a trip to the Newport Aqu... Read More
Smuggler’s Cove
Round-Trip Distance: ~1.0 Miles Will discovered this place when he took Nate and Josh on a boys weekend roadtrip a few years ago and now we try to go there anytime we get near the beach. This was the ... Read More
Lake Billy Chinook
4th of July we spent with my sister and her family at Lake Billy Chinook. Not many photos, but we had a lot of fun. We took Greg’s new boat out and played in a sand pit. Of note, GPS doesn’... Read More
Virginia Lake
Round-Trip Distance: 2.2 miles My go to hiking book is, Best Hikes with Children: Western and Central Oregon. At the point of this writing (June 2013) we had done almost all the hikes that are within ... Read More- 2 of 3
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