Cascades day-hike: Jack Lake to Jack Glacier

As has been our custom the last few years, we make at least two trips a year to the Sisters/Bend area. We were there earlier this year in late May/early June (see the post of that trip), and found many of the hikes we wanted to do impossible because there was too much snow to […]

Vacation in Sisters, Oregon

We just returned from a week in Sisters, Oregon. It is one of our favorite places to visit, and lately we have been going a couple of times a year. I like to go in the spring, even though our favorite high-country hiking trails are snow-bound. This year, the snow was especially plentiful. In fact, […]

Green Lakes Trail

For our last day in Bend, we hiked one of our favorite trails from the Fall Creek trailhead up to Green Lakes. The only slight downer was that it’s a very heavily used trail, and that the projected high temperature in Bend was in the high 90’s. I only carried the Canon point and shoot […]