State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • Sahalie and Koosah Falls: The One-Hour Five-Minute Hike

    These pictures are from a hike we took more than a month ago, while we were making our way through Oregon to get to my work conference.  I haven’t had time to tell the stories, though, because that baby pretty much demands most of my time at home.  As a matter of example, I have…

  • Paradise Campground

    There is a road…there is always a road, with us…there is a road that crosses east to west, from Eugene to Sisters in the great green state of Oregon.  This road is called the McKenzie Highway (126), as it parallels the McKenzie River.  There are parts of this river that are good for fishing, rafting,…

  • Big Thicket National Preserve

    Last Saturday found us in the visitor center for the Big Thicket National Forest, north of the town of Kountze.  We had stopped in briefly to get information on trails, and now we were back for a respite from the muggy humidity and the bugs after an hour long hike on the Kirby Nature Trail.…

  • Wild Montana

    July 21, 2014 Two horses nudge each other nervously, looking over each other’s withers across the fence, towards the treeline.  Two dark figures move slowly across the field, cautiously stepping out of the cover of the forest.  Jason’s eagle eye had stopped these slow movements, and we had turned the truck around and parked to…