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Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, site #35 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land November 27-29th, 2025 FIRST DAY Trying something different this time. We were way too chilly during our October camping trip, so this month I decided to spring for a site with partial amenities. This means electrical hook ups! Since it’s cooler now, I opted to notContinue reading “A (Heated) Room with a View”

Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, ADA site #21 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land October 9th-11th, 2025 Got Majel all loaded up, though this time with the new-to-me Yakima rooftop cargo box. I also swapped out our old igloo cooler for my big Coleman one I bought several years ago. Got the kids loaded up and off we went!Continue reading “Camping By the Green River Again”

Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, ADA site #21 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land September 19th-21st, 2025 Wow, our first camping trip in several years!  I was so excited, that I basically couldn’t sleep from the time I made the reservation until we went, haha.  Since it had been so long, I kind of packed absolutely everything I thoughtContinue reading “Our Triumphant Return to Camping!”

Wow, it’s been like, six years since we posted on here. Initially, things had slowed down due to COVID hitting and needing to stay home when I wasn’t at work. Being an essential worker sucked, but it really reinforced a lot of the reasons that I was working on my masters degree so that IContinue reading “Why We’ve Been Gone, and How We’re Coming Back to Cat Adventuring”

Location: Iron Horse State Park & Olallie State Park || Duwamish, sdukʷalbixʷ (Snoqualmie), and Puget Sound Salish land Date: December 3rd, 2019 Activity: Winter Hike We were originally going to do the Palouse to Cascades tunnel trail, but it’s not actually marked on any of the maps we saw at the various kiosks (there areContinue reading “Hiking on the Bike Trail”

Location: Rockport State Park ||Nłeʔkepmx Tmíxʷ (Nlaka’pamux), Skagit, and Puget Sound Salish land Date: November 20th, 2019 Activity: Leeloo’s winter birthday hike! This was Leeloo’s birthday adventure! Leeloo loves narrow forested trails the best, so I made sure to pick a hike that she would particularly enjoy. This park has a few short trails, includingContinue reading “A hike through virgin forest~”

Location: Fort Casey State Park || Klallam and Tulalip land Date: 11/12/19 Activity: Exploration! Sorry for the lack of updates! I’m now in grad school working on my masters in addition to working retail full-time, so we haven’t been doing quite as much adventuring lately (no camping at all this year!) Now that I’m intoContinue reading “A Trip to the Fort!”

Location: Cougar Mountain, Bellevue, WA – stolen Duwamish land Date: March 5th, 2019 Activity: Hike and trail walking The snow finally melted enough for us to get out for a real walk! All of the trails have been snowed in for weeks, but we were able to power through today! It was cold, and thereContinue reading “Snowy Cougar Mountain Adventure”

Location: Tambark Creek Park – stolen Snohomish land Date: February 26th, 2019 Activity: Stroll Took a break from my konmari efforts (finishing up by going through all my childhood stuff that I’ve had stored at my mom’s, it’s quite the undertaking but I’m getting rid of almost everything, which feels great!) to get the kidsContinue reading “Another Snowy Stroll”

Location: May’s Pond Park – stolen Snohomish land Date: February 20th, 2019 Activity: Stroll There was still a lot of snow on the ground but I wanted to get the kids outside for at least a while. Auntie Haley came over with cousin Kai, and we all went together with my mom to a smallContinue reading “Snowy Park Adventure”