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  • Hiking the Northern Cascades, Washington, Sauk Mountain

    Hiking the Northern Cascades, Washington, Sauk Mountain

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    Imagine if you were part of a clock and you were standing at 12 o’clock, the mountain was so steep from the trailhead it was about 10:30 on the clock.

  • Hiking the Washington Cascades, Mt. Baker, Skyline Divide

    Hiking the Washington Cascades, Mt. Baker, Skyline Divide

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    This little ranger station on the approach to MANY trails on Mt. Baker and other mountains in the Cascades had the most beautiful stone-work and woodwork detail. Even though it’s been 80 years since President Roosevelt put young men to work in the Civilian Conservation Corps, you can still see their handiwork throughout the United…

  • Hiking the Oregon Coast

    Hiking the Oregon Coast

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    The title is a mistatement. I did hike in a couple places, very short hikes not more than 2 hours each, but was not hiking along the Oregon Coast as the title insinuates. 😉 After leaving Crater Lake, I followed the Umpqua River on its winding journey from the Cascades to the sea. The Umpqua River is beautiful, it flows…

  • Hiking the Sierras from South Lake

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    This week’s featured hike is a combination of two hikes from two different weeks that started and ended at the same place. South Lake is the trailhead for Bishop Pass which leads to the Pacific Crest Trail (the west’s version of the Appalachian Trail); the PCT travels a total distance of 2,650 miles through California, Oregon and Washington until…

  • Hiking the Sierras – Blue Lake (almost)

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    Since I previously hiked East Coast hills, or rode my mountain bike on ‘pretty big hills’ in Fair Hill, Maryland, hiking the Sierras has been a learning experience. I follow a guide-book: “50 Classic Day Hikes of the Eastern Sierra” by Devon Fredericksen and Reed Harvey, to know what I’m tackling ahead of time, particularly…

  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

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    Branding time for calves. The day is bright and sunny, hot but not too hot, dusty, lots and lots of mamas mooing and calves mooing because they are separated from mama. Approximately 250 calves are being branded today and earlier in the day were rounded up by the cowboys and put into corrals. The horses were calmly resting…

  • La Jolla

    La Jolla

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    La Jolla is a lovely seaside area north of San Diego. La Jolla is pronounced La Hoya; there are many word challenges in Southern California – j is pronounced h, l is pronounced y, but not all the time. I visited La Jolla with my photography club (Inland Empire Photography Club) for a workshop led…

  • Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

    Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

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    Whenever I give myself extra time for my many road trips, I use the ‘no highways’ option in Google Maps. In doing that last year, I passed a number of huge dairies and many head of Holstein cows happily grazing their way through hay. They were the first dairies I’d encountered in Southern California; being…

  • From Egghillphotos: 2013 in review

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    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…