Steve

It is brutally steep and it took me a while with many breaks, but with hiking poles I only needed to use my hands a couple of times so I count it as a hike.

Photo near the top of a mountain with rocky and treed slopes to the left and a large conifer to the right. Ice capped Mt. Rainier is in the far background with the City of North Bend at the bottom of the valley.

Did the Kamikaze trail up Mt. Teneriffe today. It’s called that because of 2,300 feet of gain in the last 9/10ths of a mile. Overall hiked 10 miles with just over 4k of gain. View of Rainier from near the top. #pnw #hiking

I have a big print of this exact tree hanging up in my house!

View toward a mountain valley and lake from near the edge of a cliff with a boulder in the foreground. Broken clouds overhead and an expanse of conifers beyond a blue and green lake.

Rattlesnake Lake from the first ledge. #pnw #hiking

Photo framed by conifers on both sides looking down through a forest at a lake reflecting an overcast sky, with tree covered mountains behind the lake and a snow capped mountain, partially obscured by clouds, in the far distance.

Olallie Lake with Mount Rainier in the distance. Taken from the trail to island lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. #hiking #pnw #landscapephotography

View from the bottom of a steep valley bordered by evergreens with a waterfall in the bottom center. Just above the waterfall are distant bright green meadows broken by dark green conifers. In the distance is Mount Rainier with glaciers, ice cliffs, and melting snowfields under a clear blue sky.

Upper Comet Falls along the trail to Mildred Point at Mount Rainier National Park from yesterday 7/17/25. #nps #nature #landscapephotography

And Collective Soul rocking out in the chorus of Shine.

Our Lady Peace at White River Amphitheater finishing with Starseed.

George Kirby vs. Paul Skenes was a great pitching matchup yesterday. Mariners defeated the Pirates 1-0 on a Randy Arozarena solo home run in the 6th. #mlb

A close up photo of a juvenile Bald Eagle with brown and white feathers sitting in a tree overlooking the beach.

Three Bald Eagles congregate near the edge of the water at Rialto Beach, with the buildings of La Push and sea stacks visible in the distance.

A juvenile Bald Eagle stands on the beach near crashing tide with wings partially raised.

A Bald Eagle circles above the ground in front of onlookers with the driftwood and adjacent forest of Rialto Beach in the background.

A group of Bald Eagles hunting for fish on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park. Taken yesterday on a family trip to tour beaches on the peninsula. #nps #birding #photography #pnw

Macro photo of a cluster of orange trumpet vine flowers focused on yellowish stamen anthers, with the blooms lined up in a row and an out of focus flower in the background showing the classic trumpet shape.

Parallel dark purple blooms of a lavender plant stretch toward the sunlight along edge of an out of focus pathway.

Spring green foliage of a lithodora plant with small bright blue flowers. This plant isn't quite getting enough light where it's located so blooms are muted and its growth a bit stunted.

About a dozen tall purple salvia blooms spaced out in a corner of the garden.

Macro shots of last hurrah blooms for some of my plants. Trumpet vine, lavender, lithodora, and salvia barely still going. #flowers #pnw #garden

Thanks!

Hope you have a good trip!

Low clouds obscure the far side of a lake shoreline with granite and talus slopes in the background, with the calm lake seen from a viewpoint next to an old stump and through pine trees.

Copper Lake from the West Fork Foss River Lakes trail in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness taken last weekend. Looking forward to the real start of summer in the PNW before too long.
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A great “grundle” of money? haha, look that up.

Photo of Upper Granite Lake, with the south shore lined by evergreen topped cliffs with a talus slope base from lake edge to half way up the cliffs. Some trees are growing in the talus at the lake edge and other greenery starts about halfway up the slopes. Several large rocks are in the foreground at the near side lake edge. The distant water is a sea green color, with the near side translucent showing brown rocks just below the surface. A blue sky is overhead at the top of the frame. Morning light gives dark shadows on the trees above the cliffs.

Upper Granite Lake from a morning solo hike today. #pnw #hiking

A green and gray Anna’s Hummingbird gets nectar from a clump of blooming orange and yellow trumpet vine growing in brown lattice

Happy little Anna’s Hummingbird visiting the trumpet vine. He came back several times this weekend. #flowers #birds

View from a bridge looking down toward a clear pool of water surrounded by rocks and greenery of the lower forest, with several short cascades of white falls coming down the mountainside.

A lovely creek crossing the Teneriffe Mountain Trail. #pnw #hiking

Jack White at the Paramount last night playing tons of different songs from across his career. Was a great show. And pretty loud.

Close up shot of white iris stamen with blue "veins" on the petals

Close up of an all white iris flower showing stamen and lines flowing out of the middle of the flower

Photo of a blooming all white iris

Close up photo of a single trumpet vine flower blooming from a cluster with ten more yet to open.

More macro shots from the garden. Irises almost done and trumpet vine just starting. Roses will be soon. #flowers #photography

Very bright green undergrowth of ferns and moss along the trail

Peek through the trail side trees of a large rainbow over the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River valley

View toward the snow topped Preacher Mountain from the west side of Stegosaurus Butte

Three boys tossing rocks in the Taylor River below Garfield Mountain

Exploring the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River area last weekend with my boys. #hiking #pnw

A pink tulip wide open in midday sun

A close up of a fiddlehead of a western sword fern

A close up of a hosta plant's green and white leaves

Close up of a purple and white African Daisy (potted)

Got out my tripod and macro lens to explore the close up worlds of my garden before it all shrivels and fades. #flowers #photography

Photo shows two mountains in the background, with the mountain on the right larger and closer, under a sunrise-lit high cloud. In the foreground evergreens line the roadside pullout from where the photo was taken, and stretch into the distance to the base of the mountains.

Rising Wolf Mountain (right) and Sinopah Mountain (left) viewed just after sunrise from MT-49 near Two Medicine, Glacier National Park. Taken in September 2024. #mountainmonday #nps #landscapephotography

Gentle eroded slopes of the hills of the western side of Yakima Canyon viewed from the Baldy Mountain trail in the Wenas Wildlife Area.

The hills of Yakima Canyon seen from the Baldy Mountain trail. Taken in April 2024. #pnw #hiking

Photo looking south into the crater of Mt. St. Helens with snow melted at lower elevations in the devastated area.

Mt. St. Helens from the Boundary West trail today. More mountain goats than people - I’m liking weekday hikes. 10 miles/1,900’. #pnw #hiking

A cone shaped snow capped mountain is seen behind rock formations of Arches National Park.

Mt. Tukuhnikivatz in the La Sal Range behind North Window Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. Taken in April 2025. #mountainmonday #nps #landscapephotography

Photo of the view from between Tiger 3 and Tiger 2 showing the logged top of Tiger 3 with Lake Sammamish to the right, I-90, and downtown Bellevue in the center, and Lake Washington and the edge of the Olympics in the upper portion.

View of Mt. Rainier with a small lenticular cloud taken from Tiger 2.

Trillium flower on the Tiger Mountain Trail

Yellow Violets on the Tiger Mountain Trail

Views of the city, mountains, and flowers from Tiger Mountain this morning. It was a great day for a hike! #pnw #hiking

View looking directly up at the tan and orange Double Arch with blue sky background in Arches National Park.

What’s up? Bluesky asks me. This is.

View looking east through a tan and brown natural arch, with rocky fins in the foreground and valley in the distance under a blue sky.

Enjoying what Moab has to offer this week and trying to think about very little else. Partition Arch in Arches National Park. #nps #nationalparks #landscapephotography

I don’t think there’s an official trail to get down there.