Monday, August 2, 2021

Year of Hiking 2021: 40 - 54

Summertime is for hiking!! 

No. 40 - Tamanawas Falls, July 2:



No. 41 - Mosier Plateau, July 6:



No. 42 - Tom McCall Point, July 6:


No. 43 - Cape Disappointment, July 7:



No. 44 - Fort to Sea,  July 8:



No. 45 - Coffenbury Lake, July 9:

No. 46 - Cast Lake, July 10:



No. 47 - East Zigzag via, July 10:




No. 48 - Cape Horn, July 16:


No. 49 - Columbia Springs, July 17:

No. 50 - Coldwater Lake, July 22:









No. 51 -  Santa Ana River, July 27:

No. 52 - San Diego Bay, July 28:


No. 53 - San Francisco Bay, July 30:


No. 54 - Sisters Rocks, July 31:




Well, I've already finished off my 52 for the year - plus some! Of course, I'm going to keep hiking. Let's see how many I can rack up in the next 5 months :)

Nos. 50 - 58

July reading roundup...

No. 50 - We Are Not Free by Traci Chee:

No. 51 - Made in Korea by Sarah Suk:

No. 52 - Splendor in the Glass by Tamar Myers:

No. 53 - The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio:

No. 54 - The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea:

No. 55 - The Night Fire by Michael Connelly: 

No. 56 - Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson:

No. 57 - Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez:


No. 58 - Unsettled by Reem Faruqi:

:)

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Year of Hiking 2021: 36 - 39

I managed a few new trails in June:

No. 36 - Cooper Mt, June 6:


No. 37 - Sellwood to Steel loop, June 12:


No. 38 - Falls Creek Falls, June 22:


No. 39 - Burnt Lake to East Zigzag, June 28:



:)

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Nos. 45 - 49

June reading roundup:

No. 45 - Missionaries by Phil Klay:


No. 46 - Auntie Mayhem by Mary Daheim:


No. 47 - Jack by Marilynne Robinson:

No. 48 - Baroque and Desperate by Tamar Myers:

No. 49 - In the Distance by Hernan Diaz:

:)

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Year of Hiking 2021: 32 - 35

After May, just 15 hikes to go to reach my goal!

No. 32 - East Vancouver parks - Behrens Woods, Bella Vista, Biddlewood, May 7:
 


No. 33 - Dry Creek Falls, May 14: 




No. 34 - Cascade Locks to Herman Creek, May 26:



No. 35 - Wahclella Falls, May 26:

Summer, here I come!

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Nos. 37 - 44

May reading roundup... 

No. 37 - My Brother Stealing Second by Jim Naughton:

No. 38 - No-No Boy by John Okada:


No. 39 - Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne:

No. 40 - Frankly in Love by David Yoon:

No. 41 - Solo by Kwame Alexander:

No. 42 - A Separate Peace by John Knowles:

No. 43 - My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo:

No. 44 - Shiver by Allie Reynolds:

I'm one book behind this time last year... I better get reading!! :)