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Spectacular! Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and crescent moon just before sunrise. 📸 Ren Theelen

A sunny day and a wonderful redwood tree. It's nice to have the forest nearby.

Please follow the link to the article to participate in emailing your representative and senators and sign WTA's petition to restore staff and funding to the National Parks National Forests and outdoor recreation at treasured natural landscapes.

WTA's policy and planning manager Michael DeCramer has traded out his hiking boots for a suit and traveled to Washington, D.C. on behalf of the thousands of hikers who've called for last week's mass firings of #ForestService and #NationalParkService firings to be reversed. Learn how you can help 🌲

Summerland, Mount Rainier NP

In their @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social op-ed, Washington Trails Association CEO Jaime Loucky and Mountaineers CEO Tom Vogl call upon representatives to ensure the safety of Washington’s public lands and the people who visit them by reversing the recent staffing cuts on federal lands.

@washingtontrails.bsky.social Yay! WTA is on Bluesky!

In case you missed it this week: Registration for WTA's backcountry #volunteer trips opens Feb. 21, mass reductions in public land manager staff is putting trails at risk, WTA's #LoveLocalTrails giveaway is almost over and more. Check it all out on this week's edition of Hiker Headlines.

Friendship is a sheltering tree - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Waking up to a little bit of snow! I'm sure the roads are icy.

A timely thought youtu.be/w_inXx-J3nU

My photography method is point and hope. For 2024 I got lucky! Here are a few of my favorite flower photos. Cusick's Veronica, Columbian Monkshood, Tiger Lilly, Calypso orchid.

My happy place. Well, one of them. The east side of Mount Tahoma from Summerland meadow.