Here in Portland we've been having an unseasonably warm summer.  Temps have soared into the 90s for days on end, and we've hardly ha...

 If you wanna see wildflowers, there's usually no better place to find them than McNeil Point. Last of the Cascade Lilies A trip...

My summer wildflower tour wouldn't be complete without a visit to Mt. St. Helens.  Beginning in mid-July, colorful flowers carpet the ba...

For the past four years, I've been trying to get back and hike Silver Star Mountain.  A 2010 hike on the famed Ed's Trail was so fa...