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The view from Stegosaurus Butte in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Valley this morning. It's an unofficial, but obvious, trail that goes up up up off of the Pratt River Connector. It was springtime below, but snowing near the top.

A short conifer in the foreground and mountain top with a fresh layer of snow over a valley in the back.

I've said it before and this won't be the last time either.
Every path is a footpath if you walk it, so walk like nobody's following 😜😁

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P.S if your country doesn’t have the freedom to roam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam there’s something inherently wrong.

Photo through some trees to blue skies over a frozen bay.

Portage Head sea stacks and arch (lower left) on the north end of Shi Shi Beach -- it's pronounced "Shy Shy." Taken while hiking out after a three-day backpack trip last weekend. These is Makah land just north of Olympic National Park. .

From a bluff above, a photo looking down on a group of sea stacks just offshore in the blue Pacific Ocean, a big one on the right that looks like a thumb in the thumbs-up position. A small one on left has a triangle-shaped arch, a bit hard to see through the brush and trees on the bluff.

I love reading what other hikers/backpackers pack for their hikes, but would love to read what other women bring. My feed seems to consist of mainly male hikers, but I would love to connect with more female hikers (especially those who are a bit older). Sometimes I feel like I'm the only woman in her late forties to do longer hikes which cannot be the case. I follow the , and hashtags but maybe I need to follow other hashtags.
I'll post my own packing list for my upcoming trips (Netherlands in April and Norway in summer) when I get closer to my trip date. Meanwhile, if you're a woman over forty doing multi-day hikes, please say hi!

Pink and gold sunset thunderheads, Woodtick Recreation Area, Scoville Reservoir, Wolcott, Connecticut. August 30, 2021, 7:38 PM.

The deceptively calm stillness of a summer evening beside a lake. Looking out through a thicket of green leafy shoots growing beside the lake. Above the wooded far shore some tall thunderstorm clouds are being smudged in long hazy streaks across a pale blue sky by much stronger breezes aloft. The setting sun is tinting the clouds and haze in shades of pale gold and pink. Sky and far shore are mirrored in the very slightly rippled waters below.

From a in Long Beach, , today. Hiked along the Discovery Trail going north since the boardwalk was closed for resurfacing. Beautiful afternoon, perfect walk. Very few people and dogs, all of them well behaved. Sounds of @waves in the near distance. The snag in that one picture is actually a metal sculpture, not far from the farthest point Lewis and Clark reached in this direction.

A sculpture made from oxidizing iron represents a natural-looking dead tree, about 7 meters tall, roughly, surrounded by beach grass and always in the wind.
Away from the sandy beach and the waves, the gently rolling land is covered with yellow beach grass that listens and bends to the wind.

spent a couple of days, including my birthday, next to these rapids at Storelva in Norway during my two month solo hike. What a wonderful display of nature’s raw force. I have a video of this exact spot, but for some reason I could not upload it from my phone no matter how much I compressed it or changed formats. Maybe I will try again later on my computer.

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Powerful river rapids at Storelva in Norway, with turquoise water rushing through a narrow rocky channel, steep rock walls on both sides, and a sense of strong, relentless current in a remote wilderness setting.

We did a little hike in South Whidbey State Park back on 1/10/26. We're on a quest to hike as many parks and preserves as we can on Whidbey. South Whidbey SP was an easy target and turned out as a nice walk in the woods. We actually camped here in 1996 when our two boys were toddlers. The campground is closed now, though.

Ancient western redcedar with large diameter trunk and an estimated age of 500 years.
From the ferry looking out across the water to the City of Everett. Mountains left to right are Whitehorse Mountain, Three Fingers, and Mount Pilchuck.
South Whidbey State Park. Woman in red parka with two dogs hikes a trail through forest.
Cluster of mushrooms (Hypholoma) growing out of a moss-covered cut log.