On our latest trip to Mount Rainier National Park, it was our goal to make it to the big four waterfalls in the Paradise area – Narada, Christine, Myrtle, and Comet Falls. By the evening of our last full day, we had checked off the first three, and we were planning on getting up at…
Want to see the best of Mount Rainier National Park, but only have a day? You’re in the right place. We’ve spent a fair amount of time exploring Mount Rainier National Park over the past several years from our home base in Portland, and we’re going to help you figure out how to best spend…
When we think about our favorite hikes we’ve ever done, a few trails immediately spring to mind. One of those trails is the Skyline Trail in Mount Rainier National Park, which we’ve now hiked multiple times spanning across different years. It is, without a doubt, at the top of our list of the best hikes…
Despite growing up in Washington State in the Seattle area, I (Matt here!) had never spent much time exploring the hiking trails in my home state until the past several years when Alysha completed her goal of turning me into “Mountain Matt”. If you had asked me a few years ago, I never would have…
Arches was our first stop on our Utah National Parks road trip. We came from Denver, arriving in Moab in the fall after a summer of evergreen forests, alpine lakes, and mountainous terrain in Washington and Oregon. The area around Moab in southern Utah was a significant change of scenery. Standing under the towering Arches…
We fell in love with the state of Oregon when, in mid-2020, we decided to try out living in our minivan – Homer the Honda Odyssey – and spent six weeks on an incredible road trip that took us all over the state, from the Oregon Coast, to Bend and Crater Lake National Park, and,…