"Mongolia is kind of close, right?" Story about an attempt to ski everywhere in the world where there's snow. And in some places where there isn't. On and off-piste skiing on all continents, skiing into craters of live volcanoes, caving, climbing, photography, and travel.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
My first HEL-SEA flight
Mt. Hood Summer Skiing
TBD...
Mt. Hood’s Timberline Lodge is the only (I think) open summer ski resort in North America. Wonderful, good snow and more than 800 meters of vertical in summer! Plenty of out of bounds, too. July skiing: check.
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Chilliwack River Caves
Chipmunk caves area photos are below. Here you can see how well the parking was marked! But again, it was impossible for me to find the caves. Thick forest, beautiful forest, beautiful river, but ... no cave.
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Abbotsford Clarion Swim
On the way here, I also dropped by some caves in Fraser Valley. See the other article.
For more sauna and swimming stories, check out planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool websites! And of course the Planetcaver, and Planetskier blogs for other stories in Blogspot and TGR! The photos and text (c) 2024 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. I never take recognisable photos of other saunagoers or swimmers. and try to visit at times where there is simply no one else around or the facility has been booked only for me.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Yale Park Swim
Yale Park is a recreation area by the (artificial) Yale lake in the Lewis River valley. The nearest town is Cougar. The park is part of the agreement for building dams on the Lewis River, and the area is maintained by Pacific Corp, the owner of the dams.
Quite nice. And with a view of Mount St. Helens!
It was a refreshing swim after that sweaty cave hike that I did earlier. I was expecting the water to be cold, but it wasn't.
The bottom of the lake though is quite rocky, even massive boulders hiding just underneath. Be careful.
The park entrance is free, except on Friday through Sunday during the summers when you have to pay a small fee for vehicles ($4). The official page of the park is here. Fees are described here.
Note that there's a string of these recreation areas along the river, including overnight camping places. Yale Park does not have that.
Photos:
For more sauna and swimming stories, check out planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool websites! And of course the Planetcaver, and Planetskier blogs for other stories in Blogspot and TGR! The photos and text (c) 2024 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. I never take recognisable photos of other saunagoers or swimmers. and try to visit at times where there is simply no one else around or the facility has been booked only for me.
Ape Cave: Lava Tunnel Adventure by Mount St. Helens
Ape Cave. Named after the scouts helping to explore the cave, back then called the "cave apes".
Read more urban exploration stories from theurbanexplorer.net, and other underground stories from planetcaver.net. Read the full Planetskier series at planetskier.net, or all blog articles from Blogspot or TGR. Photos and text (c) 2024 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved.