My friend Vincent was in town, and we went out to the coast to explore and camp near the ocean. In addition to a wonderful hike through forest, across dunes, around a lake, and along the coast, we built a fantastic fire with hand gathered wood.

These photos betray how bright and sunny a day it was. Seems hiking along the North face of a mountain in winter will leave you in shadow most of the day. Nonetheless, post-processing saved these from being terminally underexposed, and the day couldn’t have been better for a hike. The hike started at the base [...]

It was a miserably wet January day, but I wanted adventure, so I went hiking anyway. Silver Falls is a great choice for a hike in the rain, as the trail takes you behind three very large falls, the spray from which makes your waterproof coat particularly worth bringing regardless of the weather. These photos [...]

Sometime around the winter solstice of 2009, I got the unignorable feeling that I needed to go hiking. Using Google maps I located a likely state park near the coast, which had a mountain with a trail to hike up. It was a wonderful seven hour hike up a 1,700 foot mountain, and being that [...]