Summer 2017 Ingalls Lake hike, Newport Oregon, Vashon Island sailing trip, the eclipse in Madras, Goat Lake hike
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Taking a break on the Green River bike trail | | It looks like my teeth are rotten here, but it's the plums we found along the way |
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Playing pickleball at the International School courts | | Kenny spent days building this lego rifle |
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We had lots of smokey days because of forest fires this summer. You can't really see it well in the picture, but the sun was red, and we could barely see Mercer Island | | Peter making lemon bars with some help from dad |
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At the Somerset Rec Club | | Ingalls Lake hike with Cherie |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6385.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6387.jpg) | | | Tufts of goat hair were all around our campsite |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6406.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6407.jpg) | About 10 goats came by in the morning, right next to our tent and completely unafraid. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6420.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6433.jpg) | The "view from the loo" was nice | | Cairns |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6434.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6436.jpg) | | | Interesting layer in the rock |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6437.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6441.jpg) | Ingalls Lake was beautiful as usual | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6439.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6446.jpg) | | | The beginning of Ingalls Creek |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-10-2017-ingallslake/gallery_img_6448.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-13-2017/gallery_img_20170813_144225342_b.jpg) | Still more goats around the lake | | Walking on the trails around Highland Drive, and we see a bear! It was scared of us, and ran away. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_4992.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_4996.jpg) | A trip to Newport, Oregon - beautiful dunes | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_5005.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_5007.jpg) | At the fair in Newport | | We bought a book on ghost towns in Oregon from this man |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_5011.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_5013.jpg) | There were some very strange sand formations on the beach | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_5017.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_6454.jpg) | Sea lions rested on platforms in the bay | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_6456.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-16-2017-newportor/gallery_img_6458.jpg) | Around the Yaquina Head Lighthouse | | Love these rocks |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_5051.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6503.jpg) | Watching the eclipse at the airport in Madras, Oregon | | Mt. Jefferson |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6507.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6525.jpg) | Lots of wide open space | | Some military planes flew in |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6531.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6532.jpg) | And some private jets | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6533.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6548.jpg) | Our "campsite" | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6535.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6544.jpg) | Our campsite neighbors gave Kenny some hot chocolate | | Nicely set up for a private viewing of the eclipse |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6552.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6536.jpg) | The line for coffee was about 30 minutes long. Good thing I don't desperately need it. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6582.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6594.jpg) | Reporters | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6600.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_5063.jpg) | | | Cool eclipse shadows |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_5072.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6654.jpg) | | | The eclipse totality |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-21-2017-eclipse/gallery_img_6660.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-25-2017/gallery_img_20170825_112613652_hdr.jpg) | Jets lining up to leave | | More pickleball at the International School. I took pictures to show city officials how much the courts are used |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-27-2017/gallery_img_6700.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_1226.jpg) | At Nehalem Bay state park | | Sailing trip to Vashon Island with Jean and Kelly, on Kelly's sailboat! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_1229.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_1234.jpg) | Captain Kelly | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_1236.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_20170830_152239805_hdr.jpg) | | | At the old quarry |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_6738.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_20170830_162259424_top.jpg) | | | A huge ant hill along the trail |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_6750.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/08-30-2017/gallery_img_6756.jpg) | Kelly went for a swim | | Bedtime |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/08-31-2017/gallery_img_6792.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-03-2017/gallery_image1.jpg) | On the way back, we saw this huge, really clean-cut looking ship. I looked it up later - it transports large equipment. | | A picnic with Jean and Kay at Potlach State Park |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-03-2017/gallery_image2.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-03-2017/gallery_img_20170903_133705092_top.jpg) | Setting up the Orukayaks. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-03-2017/gallery_img_20170903_133700401.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6820.jpg) | | | Hiking the Goat Lake Loop with Jean - we were lucky and had really nice weather. Setting off... |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6823.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6831.jpg) | | | The Pacific Crest Trail has some monster cairns |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6835.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6838.jpg) | Mt. Adams from our campsite | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_photo04.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6843.jpg) | | | The Pacific Crest Trail through-hikers are an interesting bunch. They have a certain look, and their packs are much smaller than the 2 and 3 day hikers |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6842.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6845.jpg) | One of them took this picture of us | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6851.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6852.jpg) | My pack, sitting on top of pine needles against the trees to try to avoid the ever-present dust | | Our first campsite |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_photo03.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6861.jpg) | | | Grasshoppers were everywhere, and the next morning we saw them in the beargrass. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6879.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6883.jpg) | | | Finally - Goat Lake |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6888.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6892.jpg) | There were goats, but high up in the hills. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6895.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6901.jpg) | | | A heart-shaped rock |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6903.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6905.jpg) | These rock shelters were built to protect tents from the prevailing winds | | Climbed to a gap, and got a look at Mt. Rainer! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6927.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_img_6936.jpg) | Our second campsite | | Picking blueberries at sunset |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/09-12-2017-goatlakeloop/gallery_photo21.jpg) | | | Homeward bound! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |