The trail had not yet been cleared, but there were WTA volunteers working on it | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/04-30-2016/gallery_img_20160430_115607112.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-03-2016/gallery_img_20160503_091903665.jpg) | | | Testing out my sling chair invention |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-07-2016/gallery_img_0587.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-07-2016/gallery_img_0588.jpg) | We competed at the South Bellevue Community Center Challenge - and won! | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-07-2016/gallery_img_20160507_112922514.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-14-2016/gallery_img_2817.jpg) | | | A trip to Fort Vancouver |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-14-2016/gallery_img_2820.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-15-2016/gallery_img_0598.jpg) | Peter got to set off a beaver trap at the blacksmith | | Kenny and the Amazing Dancing Water Bowl at the science museum |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-15-2016/gallery_img_20160515_105819459.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-15-2016/gallery_img_20160515_090549790_hdr.jpg) | | | We stayed at an AirBnB, I thought this nearby house was neat looking |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-15-2016/gallery_img_20160515_090817040.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-18-2016/gallery_img_20160518_175255088.jpg) | This seemed a little over-the-top, even for Portland | | Peter at his music night at Somerset Elementary |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-18-2016/gallery_img_20160518_175330849.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-18-2016/gallery_vid_20160518_181520781.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-19-2016/gallery_img_20160519_203904989_hdr.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-28-2016/gallery_img_0614.jpg) | Sunset | | The kids love this playground at the Seattle Center |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_0620.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_0627.jpg) | At the Coal Mines trail from Cle Elum - Peter found a snake | | There was a lot of old equipment left laying around from the old, unused coal mine |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_20160529_111246062_hdr.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_0625.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_0631.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_20160529_111138456.jpg) | Couldn't figure out this one | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_20160529_111747292.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_20160529_112112669.jpg) | | | From this angle it looks like a big old animal snout |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/05-29-2016/gallery_img_20160529_115449797.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-04-2016/gallery_img_0354.jpg) | | | Kayaking Cottage Lake with Jean - assembly is, as usual, the most work with the Orukayaks |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-04-2016/gallery_img_0358.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-04-2016/gallery_img_20160604_082032961.jpg) | | | They do work great once they're put together, though... |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-05-2016/gallery_img_0642.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-05-2016/gallery_img_20160605_103720211.jpg) | A massive wooden stick tower | | Mt Rainier from the Green River trail |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-12-2016/gallery_img_0647.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-12-2016/gallery_img_0649.jpg) | At the cub scout rocket launch | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-15-2016/gallery_img_2824.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-15-2016/gallery_img_2826.jpg) | Sunset/raincloud view of Seattle | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-15-2016/gallery_img_20160615_192747882_hdr.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-16-2016/gallery_img_20160616_184648782.jpg) | | | A friend of our collects ancient coins. It's history in a pint-sized package. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-18-2016/gallery_img_2827.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-18-2016/gallery_img_2831.jpg) | Peter's 9th birthday party! | | Doing the treasure hunt. The clue was "What goes up and down, but stays in one place?" It took them about a microsecond to figure it out, and another to actually find the clue. They finished a lot faster than I thought they would! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-18-2016/gallery_img_2835.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_0672.jpg) | | | A camping trip to Fort Stevens, Oregon Ecola State Park |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2885.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2881.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2889.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2886.jpg) | | | I was disappointed that so many trails at Ecola State park were closed, with no explanations. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_0674.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_0669.jpg) | The Peter Iredale wreck at Fort Stevens | | At Seaside |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2877.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2838.jpg) | | | At Battery Russell |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2841.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2843.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2846.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2852.jpg) | The biking paths were so beautiful | | At the Peter Iredale wreck. This picture was taken by an interesting lady who'd taken her family (with 3 kids, one newborn) on an RV trip around all of North America) |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2856.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2857.jpg) | The kids loved being able to bike around independently the most | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2860.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2865.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2869.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2874.jpg) | At a machine gun nest from World War II | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2875.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2876.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2894.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2891.jpg) | I found some old WWII pontoon boats while biking around some of the lesser-used trails at Fort Stevens. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2903.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2896.jpg) | | | Finding a binocular-shaped geocache |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2899.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2900.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2902.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2906.jpg) | Another geocache | | An unexpected, unmarked WWII find at Fort Stevens |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2908.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_2909.jpg) | I don't know what it was for, but it had weirdly twisted entries and exits. There were two of these structures close together. | | Massive fields of thimbleberries! This is where I ate an ant, that clamped on to my throat |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_0697.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-19-2016-fortstevens/gallery_img_0701.jpg) | While picking and eating wild blackberries and thimbleberries, I ate an ant, which clamped on to my throat | | Here it is, after I plucked it out with my fingers. Hard not to gag, but I was very motivated to get that thing out! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-25-2016/gallery_img_20160625_115248882.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-25-2016/gallery_img_20160625_115228506_hdr.jpg) | Kenny climbing a pole at the Bellevue Strawberry Festival | | Overnight kayaking trip to Hope Island, near Shelton, with Jean. This is the first time I loaded it up with anything other than a tiny daypack. Packing things behind the seat worked well. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2914.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2915.jpg) | It was an absolutely beautiful day for a kayak trip | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2917.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2919.jpg) | The water was like glass... | | At Hope Island |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2927.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2930.jpg) | Mt Rainier in the background | | The caretaker's cabin |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2938.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2940b.jpg) | Nearby Squaxin Island, owned by the Squaxin tribe, is completely inaccessible. This is the "no trespassing" sign. | | These raccoons would have stolen our food, had we not taken precautions. Their normal food here is crabs or clams. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2943.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2945.jpg) | | | Found a swing |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2950.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2951.jpg) | Best dinner-time view in the house! | | Yummy ramen/peanut butter dinner |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2952.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2954.jpg) | The racoon appproached, but a few sticks tossed in his direction made him leave | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2956.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2959.jpg) | Lots of sea anemones | | Relaxing before sunset |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2963.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2964.jpg) | Not quite as sunny the next day - approaching Steamboat Island | | The concrete reinforcements for this house were crumbling - yikes! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2016/06-27-2016-hopeisland/gallery_img_2966.jpg) | | | The seals say good-bye | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |