Quoted: My mountaineering training for this year's Climb For Kids climb (have YOU donated yet!?!?!) has me searching for the best day hikes that are fairly close to Seattle. This week I thought I'd look for something as good as Cathedral Pass, but in a different wilderness area. Thus, I opened my hiking book from the Glacier Peak region and chose the very

Quoted: Yesterday I went on a solo hike to recharge my batteries. Every now and then its good to go out in the middle of no where and be alone with your thoughts. The spectacular weather took me to an equally spectacular part of Washington State known as the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Everytime I visit that area, I tell myself I need to explore it a whole lot

Quoted: Great quote from Amani... "She's huge and darling. " Share this post: email it! | Send to Delicious | digg it! | reddit! | Dot it! | Seed Newsvine

Quoted: Yesterday I headed to Pacific Raceways to catch the annual Vintage Auto Races. The racing was a lot of fun and the fact they were celebrating the 60th anniversary of Porsche was pretty sweet too. More than half the cars out in track and in the pits were old Porsches. I was suprised at how much fun I had even though I attended the event by myself.

Quoted: You might remember that we recently took a road trip in an effort to understand Emma's tragic death and to search for answers why. As with each trip I've taken across the US, I stop at bizarre and interesting places to get the flavor of the region. While in West Texas, we stopped at the Loneliest Prada Store, outside of Marfa (really Valentine), Texas.

Quoted: As part of Emma's donation, we'll be placing a plaque on or by the new swing set. It's turning out to be much harder to figure out what to say than we thought, so we'd love your help. The parameters: 10 words or lessNo "memorial language"May include one dateWe'd love to get a Yellow Submarine and/or sunshine reference in there somehow, as well as

Quoted: When I signed the girls up for Microsoft benefits at the end of last year, I was offered the chance to get child life insurance. I was leaning against it until I saw it was only a couple of bucks a month. Given that I wouldn't even notice the change in pay, I decided to go ahead and sign up. At the time I had no idea things could play out as

Quoted: As I mentioned in my eariler posts, my climbing partner and good friend Armand summited Everest this past month. Emma died while he was in Nepal, but I emailed him to let him know what was happeneing. I also told him Em would be looking over him during his summit attempt. He was able to read the mail but was unable to respond. Well, Armand got up and

Quoted: I drove as quickly and as long as I could over the last few days so that I could arrive back home in Seattle last night. As you can see from the map, I had driven over 9,000 miles during these last 4 weeks. One of things that Emma taught me was to appreciate what I have and to focus my life on those things that are really meaningful. Well, Ellen and