Author: Kellbell

  I thought I’d be doing the epic Shipwreck Coast when I hit this milestone. A group of us fool hikers had a shuttle company lined up for a thru

I hiked Lake 22 years ago. I meant to do a write up – like I do for every hike – but for whatever reason, Lake 22 got swept under

I saw an article in my news feed the other day about how hiking helps boost the economy. I didn’t have to read it to know how true it is.

  Everybody need goals. Though most of these goals, if we are honest, are not all that important. In the grand scheme of things, does cleaning out my closet really

There is a total of 56 “hard earned hiking lessons learned” noted throughout all my posts on my former blog. (See homepage for a link – eight years worth of

Whenever my five year old grandson asks me a question that I answer with “I don’t know,” he always replies, “Well, just google it” – Ha ha!  Though with a

As thick wildfire smoke permeates the air outside here in Washington, I have decided sitting in my favorite comfy chair and catching up on the hikes I never wrote about

Everyone talks about the “Wonderland Trail” as being the best trail in Washington – people come from around the world to do it. (93 miles around Mt Rainier, in case

  I don’t know if I could apply to Guinness Book of World Records or anything, but a half mile walk is certainly the shortest distance I’ve ever gone for

Not to be confused with Goat Peak which is by Chinook Pass, or Goat Lake on the Mountain Loop Hwy – the Goat Peak Lookout in Mazama (next to Goat