Showing posts with label trails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trails. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2019

36 Hours To Montana

At 6pm June 27th, 2019 we headed out on a quickie trip to Montana to check out that house we like.
We stopped in Coeur d'Alene at midnight and with arrangements to meet the realtor at 1pm we had time for a side trip to Cataldo Mission. It was beautiful outside and inside the buildings


Some of these photos are from the two previous times we were there but I only took 153 this time so had to borrow.

This triangular shape building is technically a fruit cellar I think but for shits & giggles I call it the UNDER GROUND BUNKER.
 The owner used it for storing paint and it doesn't have built in shelves. I does have a drain in the floor but the floor is still damp/wet. 



Going down...
It was about 70* outside and a good 20* cooler inside


It measures approximately 8' X 8'. If we could find a way to get it dry inside, I think adding a bunk bed on the back wall and maybe a teensy chair & table + overhead bare bulb light would be fun. I think people would pay for spend the night there.



The Columbine & Iris along the front side of the house are beautiful



We took a hike up to the top of the ridge on the back of the property and kept finding jaw bones.
Not entire skeletons, just jaw bones.
Many, many jaw bones.
Like 50 jaw bones.


This awesome gate blocks the road so not just anyone can drive on it. It goes through our the property and winds up the hill to the ridge.



This is the view up there, pretty amazing.


We followed the road to its natural end, at our the neighbors house.
This is the view of the front pasture from his place.


And this is the view from the road at the corner down from the entry gate.

We took John Henry with us and she must have run about 10 miles. I know she went farther than I did and I got more than my 10,000 daily step goal.
She was one tuckered out girl.

We returned home Friday night just before midnight.
We are more than ever ready to move and have been packing more boxes. Lan thinks we're 2 weeks away from listing our house & making another offer to the owner.

Friday, June 14, 2019

Annual Pass

Mount Rainier in 2001


Mount Rainier 2019



We bought an annual pass to the National Parks


Took a wonderful trip there today with the hubs


And it IS PARADISE


The Lodge is beautiful. I want to stay there someday


Reflection lake is beautiful. If it were a clear sunny day in western Washington we'd have seen the mountain in it.


Took a short hike and found this


Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Ya Gotta Do...

January 9, 2019
Cape Flattery


Now


and then
January 13, 2002

I miss Picabu


The trail is about 4 feet tall so we had to duck for half mile


Lan has a photo of his IN the tree when he was young




This beach is where you can sometimes find surfers but they die here from hypothermia


I love the boardwalk


This beach was fun to see. We couldn't find a way to get down to it at all



Please don't fall


Saturday, July 28, 2018

Carbon River Glacier Hike





Biked 5 miles uphill on the mountain bikes from the Carbon Ranger Station to Ipsut Campground, tented it over night, hiked 5 miles uphill to the glacier. 
WOW.
Hiked back down to camp, rode bikes back to car & rewarded ourselves for the 30,000 steps with burgers at the Wilkeson Saloon.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Wifi is 10

WildFire, aka Wifi, is 10 years old today so I'm sharing photo of her over the years.
This is her mom, Sunshower, 2 days before Wifi was born.

And this is early in the morning in 2008


Yearling


2 years old


3 years old


4 years old


5 years old


6 years old


7 years old


8 years old


9 years old


10 years old