This has been a somewhat frantic month of trips to Portland, apartment hunting, working strange hours, attempting to rid ourselves of everything that won’t fit in the new apartment, organizing, making messes, marathon training, and general exhaustion. But it’s also been a delightful month of reading in the hammock, taking evening strolls, planning future adventures,…
an epic camping trip.
We’ve had a pretty epic few days. Our pals, the Bloems, are moving to Chicago (which makes us terribly sad, but let’s not talk about that right now). We wanted to get in one last round of awesomeness before they left, so we went on a camping trip/hiking adventure together. Our first stop was just…
toketee falls and umpqua hot springs.
Continuing our epic Oregon weekend, we headed south on Saturday to visit Toketee Falls and Umpqua Hot Springs. First of all, I’m a little bummed we’ve never spent any time near the Umpqua River before this trip. It is gorgeous. Like all of the other rivers around here, it’s crystal clear, with a beautiful hint…
tumalo falls.
This post is more aptly titled, “Blood, bruises, and bare feet.” But more on that in a moment. Since we only have a few more months living in Eugene before we move to Portland, we’re trying to knock out as many things as possible that are closer to Eugene. We’ve done quite a bit since…
the blue pool.
We returned to an old favorite last weekend with a hike to the blue pool. The Tamolitch Pool trailhead is about an hour and a half east of Eugene, and is well worth the drive. The 4-mile (roundtrip) hike travels along the McKenzie River, which is unbelievably beautiful, freezing, and clear. It ends at Tamolitch…
smith rock.
Oregon is awesome. We’re used to experiencing Oregon’s glory in the typical Pacific Northwestern fashion: visiting waterfalls, hiking through old growth forests, and seeing lots and lots of green. Obviously, we love these aspects of Oregon (check out our many Oregon adventures on the ExplOregon page), but it’s nice to change things up every now…
salt creek falls.
What a weekend. We were able to cross an item off the ol’ bucket list on Friday, with a ski trip to Mt. Bachelor. For those of you who don’t know, we grew up in Kentucky, where our only skiing experiences were on the hills of southern Indiana and Ohio. Let me tell you, skiing…
sequoia.
After a day in Kings Canyon, we headed down the road to explore Sequoia National Park. Sequoia is home to some of the biggest trees in the world, including the General Sherman Tree, considered to be the largest living tree on the planet! We’ve seen a lot of big trees this year, with a couple…
kings canyon.
We had a great plan for our trip to Kings Canyon National Park. Since we only had one day to spend there, I had done a bunch of research to determine our best course of action, and we found an awesome “Kings Canyon in One Day” guide. And then we got to the park and…
yosemite.
So, we started our epic spring break trip in Lake Tahoe, which was absolutely gorgeous. And in an attempt to fit as much action into a week as possible, and visit all the National Parks in our lifetime (which might be an unreasonable goal, considering how many other places we want to go), we headed…
lake tahoe.
Last week was Eric’s spring break (and possibly the last official spring break of our lives, unless he decides to get his PhD someday). Since I have the most flexible job in the world, we decided to embark on an epic spring break trip. And since we’ll probably never live further south on the west…
opal creek.
Big surprise: It’s been raining in Oregon. We went hiking on Saturday and got really wet. I, a woman who never leaves the house without checking the weather, checked the forecast for Opal Creek Wilderness and saw that it should be snowing during our hike. Apparently we weren’t hiking at quite the altitude of the…
kentucky falls.
We finally got a much needed break from the winter gloom on Saturday, so we took a trip to the Coastal Mountain Range to hike Kentucky Falls. This was one of the first hikes we took when we moved to Eugene back in 2012, but it looked completely different this time around. We first visited…
trail of ten falls.
Let’s all give a big “Hooray!” for sunshine. We got a big ‘ol dose of it in the Willamette Valley today, so we ventured out for a hike. We drove about 1 1/2 hours to Silver Falls State Park. We’ve lived in Eugene for a year and a half, and somehow, we’d never heard of…
above the fog.
Greetings from the fog! It’s been fog city around these parts for the past couple of weeks. But we braved the cold and fog today for a hike up Spencer Butte. My favorite thing about living in Eugene is how close we live to great hikes like this. Even though this is a hike that…
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