u/nbnfpsor

A favorite place to ride.

Really good day. Hadn't ridden for the last 4 days because of forest fire smoke. The wind shifted and today was OK, so I took the ferry West into the good air and had a fine time. The big peak in the background in the eighth pic is Mt Baker, 52 air miles away.

Fine day on the hill!

I don't know what that beam of light coming down in the second pic is, a reflection off my phone? or something. Usually not there. Weird effect. Not the most pleasant destination today. I had the road to myself and was locked in to taking the ride. Next few days are going to be too hot to ride. The fever never abates.

Was hiking in the Mount Baker Wilderness, Washington State Cascades (7/29/2026) on the Lake Ann trail (which goes to Mt Shuksan) and came across these cool rocks. Glaciation effect?

It's usually way into Aug before there's lots of folks with containers on the sides of the roads. Everything is moved up this year. The snow melted early. The wildflowers bloomed ahead of schedule. What a year. I know there's a lot of unripe berries on this bush but I didn't take any more representative pics, was taking pics of the river.

This pic was taken a little over 20 years ago on 7/1/2006. I was looking thru some old pics looking for a particular hike (which I didn't find) but came across this memory trigger. So great to have been still in the prime of life. As opposed to now. Well, we all must face our own mortality eventually. We had backpacked to an off trail snow camp at 5050' starting from the Kautz Creek trail and then day hiked the next day to Pyramid Peak, which I can't recommend enough, just as fabulous as fabulous can be.