My hiking buds cooked up a plan to climb Mt. St Helens this past weekend. And, though my reaction to any proposed outdoor adventure is typically "count me in!", my feeling about slogging up St. Helens for the umpteenth time was: "Been there, done that (too often!)"
What I'm posting here today, then, are my What I Did With My Weekend (Not Hiking or Climbing) pictures.
On Saturday Leah and I made a little one-day road trip to Central Washington and to Yakima. Above is a picture I shot from a ridge high above Ellensburg -- Mt. Stuart and her sister peaks (Sherpa, Argonaut, Dragontail) under a dramatic, Ansel Adams-esque sky. The first two pictures below are from our drive through the rocky landscape of the Yakima River Canyon.
The last two pictures are from Sunday, back at home in Western Washington, as Leah, Pax and and I worked at gardening and other outdoor chores…the payback labor I had promised my mate who, other weekends, lets me run off and play in the mountains with my ne'er-do-well friends.
