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I THREW UP HERE!! (Not near the lake) binge ate before leaving home to clean out the fridge and then ate hella trail mix on the trail. Wearing a 25lb pack with a strap right across my stomach up 3k feet in 5 miles. Forgot to bring a bottle and didn’t want to get sugar in my water bladder so I bit off a chunk of fizzy electrolyte tablet it started foaming in my mouth and I was like well that’s too bad and swallowed it !!!!

Was fine while moving bc adrenaline but a o nauseous once I took my pack off it took half an hour to set up my tent bc I kept having to take breaks sitting down and then I puked and felt better but was too scared (and sleepy) to eat so. Just drank some ginger tea and went to bed without dinner. And then I woke up and ate 2 packs of ramennm!!!!

I rate this trip a 3/5

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bringing this blog back for an anticipated ROCKING outdoor season

no.1 the best riverside campsite on gorgeous 80F weekday skinny-dipping campfire cooking and reading my least favorite Jane Austen book so far right by the bank

no.2 semi-botched rainier day hike (LOST IN HILLY LOOSE SNOW FOR AN HOUR!) incredibly beautiful, mt st helens mt Adam’s AND mt hood in one photo what could be better. And got to slide on my butt down a bunch of hills

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Reviving this sideblog I have lots of things I want to see and remember this year. First are these geese

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05/27-05/29/24 Beautiful beautiful 3 day 2 night trip on the enchanted valley trail. Forecasts looked great when I reserved my permit in April but I should know 45 day predictions don't last, lol. Despite getting rained on for 3 days I had a great time!!

Day 1 was very pleasant with only a few drizzles here and there, and I camped by a river with the greatest skipping rocks so I threw enough that my arm hurt for the rest of the trip... Day 2 was alllllll rain--woke up to rain, packed up my drenched tent which added probably another 2 lbs to my pack. This day took me from the midpoint of the trail to the end and I think is the better half--lots of forested meadows, flatter walking, rockier, with a few stream crossings where I was super thankful for my trekking poles and boots. Saw a bear and realized bears aren't so scary when they are just munching! The last logbridge to the valley was so fucking awesome--maybe a 50 ft drop to the river below and only railed on one side!! Coming upon the chalet was poetic it was smokey with mist, drizzling, and felt like it was how a rainforest was supposed to be seen. I do wish the rain let up for a bit so I could do more exploring but by day 2 the constant humidity had seeped through all my waterproof gear so I was happy to just cozy in my tent and read my book lol. I would love to hike this trail again even just to properly explore the valley next time. And the innumerable waterfalls... what!!

Day 3 was BRUTAL... 15 mile hike back to the trailhead. It felt like all the weight I ate off my backpack got added back with just rain. And for a few hours here and there it Rain rained and a perpetual drizzle carpeted the rest of the way. I made pretty good time for the first half but started losing steam after lunch and realizing there's still 10 miles to go through a trail that was getting muddier by the minute became a mental drag. The rain didn't ever bother me too much but the slippery squishy trail did, and also at this point everything was just perpetually damp lol. Sounds miserable now but overall was still in really high spirits I'm impressed w myself honestly! I'm not talking about the huge uphill at the last 2 miles tho

Didn't see many animals (really wanted to see elk) but I am happy with 2 bears and lots of pacific wren families with fletchlings practicing flying along the trail !

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beautiful creatures of my darling, the olympic pen 05/28-05/30/24

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4/26/24 old guy playing guitar on the 6:45am ferry yesterday … was very peaceful

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4/16/24 tulip festival fixed me up if i do say so myself

haven’t rly felt enthusiastic about much to share anything in the last few months and everything is so blah and anxiety inducing and idk what my life is really but i luv these buds!

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01/07/24 American Camp National Park on San Juan Island w/ a little buddy. It’s my bday!! Went on a small excursion :)

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forgot to post bakes for so long!! restaurant is closed for the szn so back to some cuter casual stuff for the cafe. peach apple pie // pear frangipane tart // rosemary orange hazelnut chocolate tart // batched apple pies // peanut butter chocolate s’mores cookies w marshmallow crème // lemon raspberry cupcake :3 (there are more than just 1)

bread game has been terrible recently bc the temperatures dropped and I need to figure out the new starter feeding time/bread making regimen. like what the hell

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9/6-9/7 Southern end of Lopez island! Tons of seals on the rocks above the reef. Tons of wasps everywhere else 🤨

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fiber stuff update!! I’ve done a lot since the last time i updated on yarn. But now that summers ending in north hemi it’s time for wool :))

spun a little bit: first is half a braid from a 4oz thing of combed top I got at a yarn festival last year. Second is hand carded from this CVM lamb fleece i got Wisconsin 2020 that I am finally starting to substantially chip away at 3 years later. They are both light fingering weight cable plied

Then I made this linen lace wrap/scarf. It is 7ft long lol. It took almost 3 months but it’s kinda an heirloom project so i wasn’t in a hurry

Crocheted a lil soap saver w some cotton thread! I forgot to take pics before abusing this thing in the shower so these are ig photos lmao

a sweater w a ton of knitpicks yarn I was trying to get rid of. I forgot to do any decreases so I’ll need to figure out how to doctor this up because there’s no way I’m frogging colorwork. I stopped where it is bc I actually ran out of yarn and had to order more but hopefully this will be done end of September

started another sweater while waiting for the other yarn to come in !!! it’s with woolfolk far. It’s SO soft. this project was a huge financial oversight honestly. Can you believe it’s gonna be $200+ just in yarn :/ but it’s so much fun to knit, it rained buckets for the last few days in west washington so I hauled ass and knit this much in 4 days lmao

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look at my kids

left to right: anise hyssop and chocolate, popcorn ganache, coconut buttercream and lime curd :~) my curd was runny but it’s being contained

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some real honkers today from the sourdough chore

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magical girl style fox encounter at Cattle Point, San Juan Island 08/15/23

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Ok that video quality is so poopy and idk how to fix it. So here’re stills of the guy

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magical girl style fox encounter at Cattle Point, San Juan Island 08/15/23

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sunset by the sea 7/31/23

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DESSERT TIME white peach sorbet, goat milk tres leches cake, peach pit-infused cheese foam, fresh red currants + sauce :) something simpler because there is so fucking much going on every week. hate august. kind of a shitty pic because i was just trying to leave. this was tasty--wish the goat milk was more forward but when you add condensed milk into the mix it sort of drowns everything else out in the soak. the petit four for the next 2 weeks is a popcorn-infused white chocolate ganache macaron which was really fun too.