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Happy Sunday!
Enjoy this Puffball duo that looks like a tiny butt!!
Hope you’re getting out on the woods this weekend!
I’m about to go for a little Forest bike ride, then back to the grindstone!!!
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Mt. Jefferson area in September, 2018
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#mushrooms #artist #illustrator #oregon #oregonmade #psa #thewoods #forestmagic #butts #puffball #hongos #cascades (at Corvidopolis)
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Tiny forest fairy
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#me #ootd #wiwt #wild #wilderness #wildernessculture #exploreoregon #exploring #treehugger #upperleftusa #oregon #oregonexplored #pnw #pnwisbest #pacificnorthwest #adventure #staywild #discoveroregon #freedom #staywild #lovetheearth #liveauthentic #cascades #bestoforegon #nature (at Siouxon Creek)
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I live in this waterfall snow cave now thanks
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#wild #wilderness #wildernessculture #exploreoregon #exploring #treehugger #upperleftusa #oregon #oregonexplored #pnw #pnwisbest #pacificnorthwest #adventure #staywild #discoveroregon #freedom #staywild #lovetheearth #liveauthentic #cascades #bestoforegon #nature (at Latourell Falls)
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Listen up, Tumblr. This is important.
Since February I’ve been working with a team of social workers, faith communities, and child care professionals to create an organization called Skookum Kids that would care for children in their first 72 hours of foster care.
There’s a huge need for this nationwide, but here in my home of Bellingham Washington it’s particularly acute.
When children enter the foster care system, social workers often struggle to find a place for children to stay. A sustainable solution to this problem has already been created in next-door Everett, Washington. A facility called Safe Place receives children as they enter foster care, taking pressure off social workers and giving the children entering foster care a much softer landing. Through divine appointment I met the director of Safe Place in Everett. And when I expressed interest in building an extension in Bellingham, he was incredibly supportive and encouraging. He shared both his business plan and a huge amount of hard-earned wisdom. We are starting now with the benefit of his experience and his full support.
I am optimistic that we could be caring for children as early as the first quarter of 2015, and I’d love to have your support. Our biggest needs right now are visibility and donations.
You can give through our crowdfunding campaign, and choose from a variety of perks only available to our startup supporters.
And I’d love your help spreading the word through email, facebook, twitter, smoke signal, carrier pidgeon—any means necessary. We need your help!
For convenience, feel free to use these links to share quickly:
(sorry, no link for carrier pigeons)
If you’d like to stay connected with Skookum Kids as it develops, you can subscribe to receive email updates, and I’ll be sure to keep you informed as things develop.
Thank you in advance,
Ray Deck III
Loowit Trail | Day 2 | 7/21/20 | 10 Miles
The second day on trail started early after a night of cowboy camping under the stars. This was the first night of the year that I hadn’t set up my shelter and it was amazing. The stars were out and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.
It started to get quite warm early on, so I’m glad that I started the hike early as I climbed around the mountain above tree line.
I’m looking forward to doing this trail again soon, I’ll probably head back out there in the fall.
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#earthfocus #pnwonderland #Upperleftusa #visualscollective #ultralightbackpacking #lifeofadventure #livefolk #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #wildernessculture #adventureisoutthere #pnw #adventuretillwedie #washington #Roamtheplanet #visualsofearth #exploretocreate #folkscenery #ulbackpacking #cascades #Washingtontrails #theNWadventure #ultralight #welivetoexplore #ulbackpacking #shotoniphone #hiking #mountains #sthelens #backpacking
@washingtontrails @wander_washington @pnwonderland @thenwadventure @thatpnwlife (at Cougar, Washington)
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Loowit Trail | Day 1 | 7/20/20 | 20 Miles
I was excited to get out on the Loowit Trail after hearing about it earlier in the Spring. I love the Timberline Trail and the Wonderland Trail, so being able to circumnavigate Mt. St. Helens was really exciting.
The trail leads you across all different types of terrain. I hiked through forests, giant boulder fields, alpine, sandy mountainside above all vegetation, silty rivers, and lava fields. The trail was hot and exposed and water was scarce but the views were spectacular.
Unfortunately, I forgot my camera’s memory card, which I realized about a mile and a half into the hike. So not wanting to turn around, I carried the camera the whole way and had to rely on my phone for pictures.
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#earthfocus #pnwonderland #Upperleftusa #visualscollective #ultralightbackpacking #lifeofadventure #livefolk #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #wildernessculture #adventureisoutthere #pnw #adventuretillwedie #washington #Roamtheplanet #visualsofearth #exploretocreate #folkscenery #ulbackpacking #cascades #Washingtontrails #theNWadventure #ultralight #welivetoexplore #ulbackpacking #shotoniphone #hiking #mountains #sthelens #backpacking
@washingtontrails @wander_washington @pnwonderland @thenwadventure @thatpnwlife (at Cougar, Washington)
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Marion Lakes/Mt. Jefferson Wilderness | Day 2 | 18 miles | 6/23/20
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After a restless sleep at Wasco Lake, I made the short hike back up to the PCT and started heading north. I had a few miles to hike on the PCT on this loop. After climbing through a burned area, the trail remained covered in snow for about two miles around Rockpile Lake until South Cinder Peak, where I turned off the PCT and headed back down to Marion Lake.
This overnight trip was probably the hardest overnight hike I had done until this point, between the climbing over downed logs for ten miles, two miles of snow, dealing with heat exhaustion and mosquitoes, and acclimating to a higher elevation. Getting back into the routine of hiking has been tough and I definitely need to work on my pacing. But all in all, I’m glad I did this route, as it challenged me and I felt very accomplished afterwards.
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#earthfocus #pnwonderland #Upperleftusa #visualscollective #ultralightbackpacking #lifeofadventure #livefolk #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #wildernessculture #adventureisoutthere #oregonnw #adventuretillwedie #oregon #Roamtheplanet #visualsofearth #exploretocreate #folkscenery #ulbackpacking #cascades #BestOfOregon #theNWadventure #ultralight #welivetoexplore #oregonexplored #earthoutdoors #hiking #mountains #jj_oregon #backpacking
@bestoforegon @oregonexplored @pnwonderland @thenwadventure @thatpnwlife (at Mount Jefferson Wilderness)
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Marion Lakes/Mt. Jefferson Wilderness | Day 1 | 18.5 miles | 6/21/20
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This trip felt more like a backpacking trip than lasts week trip did. I had hiked a loop similar to this one last year, and as I set out for the overnight trip, I knew it was going to be a hard hike but it ended up being a little more difficult than I expected. I guess I still need to get my trail legs back.
The hike started out in wandering through the forest, with a pleasantly warm morning. As I continued on, the day began to heat up and the trail entered, exited, and re-entered several burn areas, where I was forced to climb over a ton of downed trees. Eventually, I made my way up to the PCT and camped at Wasco Lake, where the mosquitoes would continue to eat me alive.
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#earthfocus #pnwonderland #Upperleftusa #visualscollective #ultralightbackpacking #lifeofadventure #livefolk #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #wildernessculture #adventureisoutthere #oregonnw #adventuretillwedie #oregon #Roamtheplanet #visualsofearth #exploretocreate #folkscenery #ulbackpacking #cascades #BestOfOregon #theNWadventure #ultralight #welivetoexplore #oregonexplored #earthoutdoors #hiking #mountains #jj_oregon #backpacking
@bestoforegon @oregonexplored @pnwonderland @thenwadventure @thatpnwlife (at Mount Jefferson Wilderness)
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Climbing the second highest peak in Washington (Mount Adams) this past weekend.
Some photos from my most recent viking hike in the Cascades.
Hangin’ with my sisters, a president, a guy named Jack, and some of their smaller acquaintances.
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