The Wonderland Trail is a 93-mile hiking route encircling Mt. Rainier. Over its course, it climbs from rainforest to alpine meadow and back again, again and again, gaining and losing over 20,000 feet of elevation. Hiking its entire length in one push is equivalent to climbing and descending the mountain twice.

Mike, Hannah and I took eleven days out this summer to do it. We traveled (read more»)

• Wonderland Trail 15-25 August 2011
• Prouty Glacier 3-4 July 2011
• Middle Sister 11-12 June 2011
• Snowcave at Crater Lake 5-6 March 2011
• Tombstone Pass 22 January 2011

• Bohemia Mountain 5 September 2010
• Waldo Lake 3-4 July 2010

• Mt. Adams 4 July 2009
• Diamond Peak 20 June 2009
• Mt. McLoughlin 25 April 2009
• Masai Mara 28 December 2008 - 1 January 2009

• Mt. Kenya 19-21 December 2008
• Fourteener Triple Crown 19 July 2008
• A Rematch with Longs 11-13 July 2008
• Indian Peaks Weekend 4-6 July 2008
• First Flatiron 21 June 2008
• Red River Gorge 21-23 May 2008
• Wild Iowa 4 May 2008
• Grand Gulch 25-27 March 2008
• Project Quinzhee 16-17 January 2008

• Coyote Gulch 2007 20-26 October 2007
• IES Abschiedessen 28 June 2007
• Morocco 4-11 April 2007
• Prague and Dresden 19-25 March 2007
• Terezin's Small Fortress 19 March 2007
• SC Freiburg vs. Duisburg 4 March 2007
• Lucerne, Switzerland 3 March 2007
• A day in the Schwarzwald 25 February 2007
• Rosenmontag 19 February 2007
• Freiburg first impressions 16 February 2007
• XC Skiing at Kiwanis Meadow 23 January 2007

• Intro to Painting 29 August - 14 December 2006
• Navajo Peak 6 August 2006
• Happy Thursday in Boulder 3 August 2006
• A Moist Day on Longs 8 July 2006
• Climbing Peak Q 1-3 July 2006
• Torreys, Grays, and the Kelso Ridge 17 June 2006
• Bierstadt, Evans, and the Sawtooth Traverse 4 June 2006
• Coyote Gulch Backpacking 26-28 March 2006
• Cleansing of the Holds 20-21 January 2006

• Grinnell Outdoor Orientation Program 14-19 August 2005
• Cabezon Peak and Xenolith Cave 18-19 June 2005
• Climbing Mount Harvard 16-18 July 2005
• Pecos Wilderness Backpacking 1-4 July 2005
• Cabezon Peak and Xenolith Cave 18-19 June 2005
• Rock Climbing at Wild Iowa 23 April 2005