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July 24, 2016: Mt Adams reflected in a trailside pond.
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July 23: Trail winds through a burnt out forest as we worked our way closer to Mt. Adams.
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July 18: Day two was spent mostly in the clouds. It was chilly and everything was wet. Joints were acting up and refusing to let us travel very fast but we managed ten miles before making camp.
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Walking along the Matt Davis Trail in Mount Tamalpais State Park, CA.
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On the trail to climb Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, CA
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Using our gravity filter to get clean water in the Yosemite National Park backcountry.
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Hiking past Vernal Falls in Yosemite National Park, California.
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Shell Ridge Open Space, California.
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#attpark
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Sitting on rocks at Salt Point State Park, Sonoma Coast, CA
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Colors over the Bolinas Lagoon.
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I love your face.
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Friends holding hands under a rainbow on Bon Tempe Dam, Fairfax, California.
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Swam in the ocean and rinsed off in Alamere Falls. Bolinas, California.
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Turbulent waters at Shell Beach, Bodega Bay, California.
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Trees and clouds in Lands End, San Francisco.
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Wandering around the Presidio of San Francisco.
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Soaking wet hike along the High Marsh Trail on Mount Tamalpais.
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Looking across Bon Tempe Lake in Marin.
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Walking around Lafayette Reservoir on a sunny day.
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Got to see a dear friends wedding on Friday.
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Looking out over the ocean above Tennessee Beach.
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Just got some things in the mail so I can begin planning next summer's adventure. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail across my home state of Washington, starting at the Oregon border and ending at the Canadian border.
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August 6: A day hike up the Crow Pass trail to Crystal Lake and Raven Glacier with Rachael, Jeffry, and his brother Brian.
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August 5: Drinking at Chilkoot Charlie's, a large establishment that houses ten different bars. We spent our evening in the Birdhouse Bar, an exact replica of a bar by the same name that burnt down in Bird Creek, AK not too far outside of Anchorage. The c
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August 6: Hanging in the backyard with Rusty, aka Rusty Bucket, aka Bucket.
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August 3: Woke early and broke camp, it was time to get back to civilization. We made it back to the road significantly faster than we made it to the glacier since now it was pretty much all downhill. Here we are having our last lunch break, just a mile o
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August 2: The snowline on the glacier at around 6,400 feet was the highest we climbed. Significantly higher than on the last citizen science course expedition to the Middle Fork Toklat glacier back in 2012. We took one last GPS reading, peered into crevas
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August 2: After a brief lunch break our group split in two and five of us went further up the glacier where it was getting fairly steep taking measurements higher up than they ever had before. The other group went back down towards the terminus to hit mor
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August 2: Jeffry drinking straight from a glacier stream through his LifeStraw. Rachael in the distance taking measurements with her GPS device.
