Hiking in the Cascades: A Twitter Archive

I hate twitter and will be frequently deleting my tweets so I will create an archive of any noteworthy ones here on the blog.  The inaugural volume will be the hiking tweets that I have posted for James, who texts them to me from the icy defiles of the wet and wooded mountains of the Colonel's domain.

[Edited lightly for ease of reading, newest first]


January 16: Ice in beard. Four to 16 inches of snow in the forest. Clouds lift revealing Seattle.

January 14: Above cedars and watershed in a snowy gale.  Can see west to the Olympias.

January 11: Roasting oysters on Tahuya Creek on the Hood Canal.
Drunk with the Colonel.

January 10:  In a snowy willow thicket at 1,600 feet.  Sleet pouring down.
1,900 feet, cedar and ferns in a slow rain.
In four inches of snow among adult alder in slush and rain.
Six inches of snow, looking down on the watershed from 2,000 feet.

January 8: Standing at 1,640 feet in the Cascades next to a 9x9x9 foot cedar stump, looking at Seattle on the misted horizon.

Photo by Thallasocrat: