Year of Hiking 2024: Nos. 58 - 61

Fall is the perfect time to be outside in Portland!

After increasing distance and endurance all summer - and seeing a moderate forecast for race day - I decided to run the Portland Marathon, my 8th marathon! 

No. 58 - Portland Marathon, Oct. 6:

We finally finished section hiking the Wildwood Trail.

No. 59 - Wildwood Germantown Road to Newberry Road, Oct. 20:

No. 60 - Tamanawas Falls loop, Oct. 24:

No. 61 - Holman to Wildwood to Firelane 2 to Leif Erikson, Oct. 26:

On to November! :)

2024: Nos. 77 - 82

October reading roundup...

No. 77 - Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter:

No. 78 - Murder, Simply Stitched by Isabella Alan: 

No. 79 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager:

No. 80 - None of this is True by Lisa Jewell:

No. 81 - Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden:

No. 82 - The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse:

:)

Year of Hiking 2024: Nos. 54 - 57

I hit my 52-hike goal in August, but I'm still going strong! 

In our quest to hike the entire Wildwood Trail this year, we had to go back for this short section that was closed by construction 

No. 54 - Wildwood - Trillium to Firelane 7A, Sept. 2:

No. 55 - Wilson River Trail - Kings Mountain to Keening, Sept. 7:

No. 56 - Wildwood - 53rd to Newberry, Sept. 14:

No. 57 - Beverly Beach, Sept. 21:

:)

2024: Nos. 69 - 76

September reading roundup...

No. 69 - White Out by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Toon:

No. 70 - The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden:

No. 71 - One by One by Freida McFadden:

No. 72 - You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose:

No. 73 - The Guest List by Lucy Foley:

No. 74 - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry:

No. 75 - Murder, Plain and Simple by Isabella Alan:

No. 76 - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley:

:)