Once you get older, walking up mountains is not so much fun. You go to the Jeep and start high. Nobody wants to go, but Doodles, the wild is full of mosquitoes, and the weather is often cold or hot or wet or windy with all the above. Washington is no joke wilderness. 

The Columbia River. Turned into a very large lake above Vantage, Washington.

Across the river is the Ginkgo Wilderness area. This is off Frenchman's Coulee.

It is a great area before it gets hot. 

May is finally here. Still snow up higher and in giant piles here and there. Diamond Head Mountain, Wenatchee Mountains, WA. Just me and the Doodles as usual. 

 Winter on the Ginkgo, Vantage, WA. The only place where there is no snow. Lots of Elk and Deer though. Columbia River.

Defending the Frontiers of Democracy 20th anniversary edition

Defending the Frontiers of Democracy 20th AnniversaryEbook edition of events on this blog and more.

20 years! Time Flys. Slip of the curl. 

Lock an Load

                                                        Lock and Load. 

USAF

IYAAYAS. 2010-2014. Conventional, Flight Test, Edwards AFB CA. F35 ramp up. B1 B2 B52. 

F22 ramps also. Retirement of last Space Shuttle, NASA Ramp/Armstrong Center.