Do you take your cellphone or iPod into the mountains? Chances are you put them in the pocket of your supposedly waterproof jacket and forget about them when you get rained on. When you get home you try drying the moisture-laden device in the oven, or use one of a number of other home remedies. A Portland company has come up with a more reliable solution to your problem—The Bheestie Bag. [click to continue…]
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Actually, it’s a replacement trail. Do you remember Link trail, the section that connected Volcano Ridge trailhead to the pass between Volcano Ridge and the rocky knoll which is South Volcano Ridge? — a long boringly straight cutline lined with alder, followed by a horrendously steep and stony cutline up onto a ridge? Well, the new Link trail is the anthisus of straight; it winds A LOT up an east-facing ridge to the south of the old route. A few other facts: It starts 820 m south of the old junction on what was Gorge-Link trail. It’s 2.6 km long, has bridges over every creek starting from Volcano Ridge trailhead, and joins the old route almost midway between Volcano Ridge Summit trail and the pass. [click to continue…]
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Northern Pearl Crescent at Mount Allan
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