Flugtag 2008 and Columbia River Gorge

Steve, Christen, and I road motorcycles down to Portland to watch Flugtag 2008. There were 80,000 people there!!!! It was insane. After that we went down to the Columbia River Gorge and did a couple of hikes. It's a beautiful area and very popular with tourist and hikers but we did one hike late in the evening and the second first thing in the morning, so we beat most of the crowds.

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Olympic Mountains Hiking and Camping

This is a Tiger Lilly up on Mt. Walker.


A view toward the Olympics from Mt. Walker as the sun was setting.


This is a photo from our campsite the second day as the sun was setting . . .

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Yosemite

So I finally made it down to Yosemite. I'm in San Francisco for work and I took the opportunity to fly down a couple of days early to drive to Yosemite. I took a lot of photos so it will take a while to go through all of them but here is the fist pass.

Yosemite is really cool. It is crowded but it's so big that it's not too bad and it's EASY to get away from the crowds for the most part.

Zion National Park

Here are some pictures from my trip to Zion Canyon. It was an absolute blast. I got to see an old friend I used to do some climbing with and we did some hiking and really cool slot canyons in the park. Click here to see all my pictures and here are pictures from the Pine Creek slot canyon. Also, here are Kimberly's pictures.

Heybrook Lookout