Our summer so far has been filled with a number of fun activities around the beautiful Northwest. In early July, Sabrina and I traveled up to Lost Lake (near Mt. Hood) to do some hiking and celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. Earlier that month, I made a solo trek up the Top Spur trail with my faithful hound--Bahkit--and had to traverse through some snow that was still covering some of the trail. I returned a few weeks later with a friend, and we were able to make it all the way up to the McNeil Point shelter. Chris accompanied me on a three day backpack into the Three Sisters Wilderness area, hiking from the Pole Creek trailhead outside Sisters, Oregon all the way up to Camp Lake (situated in the saddle between the South and Middle Sisters). We started our summer off, though, with a brief kayak excursion in June, exploring the Willamette River just north of Newberg."For the Lord is the one who shaped the mountains, stirs up the winds, and reveals his thoughts to mankind. He turns the light of dawn into darkness and treads on the heights of the earth. The Lord God of Heaven's Armies is his name!" (Amos 4:13)
