In early summer, a creamy-colored poofy flower adorns the slopes of  the high Cascades.  Known as beargrass, this unusual plant carpets open...

Know how you get Mt Hood's uber-popular Mirror Lake trail all to yourself?  Get up crazy early and pick a foggy, cold day. Foggy fo...

Ok, time to rewind back to early June.  Heading home from South Dakota, I normally rush through the long 2-day drive.  But this year I took ...