Garin's Blog

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  • Spring Loop revision C

    Spring Loop revision C

    Or revision B, or maybe D, I don’t really know how many times I’ve revised this route. Maybe I’ll quit revisions on it all together because lately the changes haven’t really been updates so much as small variations to account for my mood or weather. Today, a sunny Sunday morning, had the trails around Lake…

  • Bike to Work 2019

    Bike to Work 2019

    No Celebration Stations on my wet route to work this morning, just sprinkles and puddles.

  • Quiet Lummi Loop

    Quiet Lummi Loop

    Today’s ride around the Lummi Peninsula was the quietest trip around that loop that I can ever recall.  That’s something, especially for this particular loop that can be fraught with barking dogs, loud trucks and cars whizzing to and from the ferry.  Today though….nothing. Just nothing. It was a nice warm spring morning, not too…

  • Two Towers and a Trail?

    Two Towers and a Trail?

    Since the first time I bike hiked up to the towers on Lookout Mtn I’ve wanted to explore some of the nameless trails on the way back down. On today’s ride I did, and the trail I chose will now be know to me as No Buenos Trail. I’m sure it has a proper name…

  • Haggen to Haggen Revised

    Haggen to Haggen Revised

    Over last summer, and even a bit through winter, this loop became one of my goto loops.  I can ride it from my house or it’s almost as easy doing from the Haggen parking lot.  It’s basically a loop through Ferndale via Smith & Noon roads and then hitting as many trails/paths as I can…

  • Fashion

    Fashion

    We recently sent off a big boxes of photos from the pre-digital days to be scanned.  1,310 photos in all, most of which were comical due to their age and our personal lack of age at the time they were taken. This single photo though, from around the North Bend area of the Seattle suburbs,…