Pete's Porridge
Peregrinations
The Stuart Range, eastern Cascades, Washington.

A bit of the Stuart Range from Mount Stuart to Colchuck Peak, east central Cascades, Washington.

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This compilation of Web sites deals with my interests in outdoor recreation, mostly mountain sports. It concentrates on Washington state and the greater Pacific Northwest, but obviously has wider application. Half a dozen more of my pages are also found in this list of links.

This and the other pages in this section were updated in November 2009.

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    trips:
    A Road Trip to Wyoming is a page of pictures and text describing a ten day trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons.
    Buying Sandals in Cody, Wyoming, describes a second road trip to the northern Rocky Mountains.
    With, eventually, more trips to come...

    agencies:
    Almost everywhere you go these days, some agency wants you to have a permit to camp or hike or just park the car, so here's a list of agencies in Washington where you can get your permits. They might even have other information it would be useful to know, like road and trail conditions....
  1. Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Washington State Parks Department
  2. The U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region 6 provides links to the National Forests of Oregon and Washington, and a (bit hard to find) passes and permits page.
  3. Or, in Washington, go directly to the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Wenatchee, Okanogan, Gifford-Pinchot and Olympic National Forests, or Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
  4. The U.S.National Park Service, and Mt Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades National Parks
  5. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
  6. For winter sno-park permits go to my Skiing links page.

    hiking:
    guides
  7. seattlepi.com/getaways/hike has an archive of info on dozens of walks and hikes in Washington organized by county, thanks to Karen Sykes and the Seattle P-I.
  8. nwhikers.net, a discussion forum site currently with over 5800 registered users, hosts trip reports (that also lets you search WTA), galleries of great photography, links, and more.
  9. Chris Duval provides washingtonhikes.com for his dozens of hikes and photos of hikes.
  10. nwhiker.com: In addition to selling his "virtual hikes" CDs, Dennis Stilwell provides interactive hikes for Washington and Oregon, including the Columbia River gorge.
  11. cooltrails.com provides "hiker-written trail reports for Pacific Northwest backcountry destinations"
    conditions
  12. For links to current road and trail conditions for the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (USFS Region 6), go to fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/conditions.
  13. And at fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/links.shtml the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie NF conveniently provides a page of links to the other national forests of Washington and Oregon, each of which provides up-to-date condition info.
    And check the most recent trip reports from the WTA, just below, for more condition info, too.
  14. My page of Skiing Links will lead you to current snowpack and avalanche info, and more.
  15. You can explore tons of weather-related sites starting at my weather links. Or, for Washington state forecasts, just go to atmos.washington.edu/data/weather.html#forecasts.
    organizations
  16. The Washington Trails Association at wta.org are the good folks who organize and do a lot of that necessary hard work -- plus they provide a very good hiking guide, a searchable trip reports page (which combines their info with the USFS reports), and more.
  17. You might also want to look at mountaineers.org, so you'll know where not to go -- unless you like crowds.
  18. One Step at a Time at osat.org are good folks (with a website they're currently rebuilding).

    hot springs:
    A google search (see above) with your state's name and the phrase "hot springs" will lead you to lots more.
  19. Wikitravel at wikitravel.org/en/Hot_springs offers a nice introduction to hot springs.
  20. soak.net is the main natural hot springs website. For latest conditions, be sure to check the fora. But where are you???
  21. seattlepi.com/getaways/082296/hotlist_top.html: This Seattle P-I article discussed Washington hot springs, but much of it is now out of date.
  22. soakersbible.com requires signing up and logging in, so naturally I haven't done that.
  23. gorp.com/gorp/activity/skiing/cros_hotspring.htm: "Ski-In Hot Springs of the Pacific Northwest" but really only a few of the many possible.
  24. The National Geophysical Data Center of NOAA provides a searchable database of Hot Springs in the U.S.
  25. idahohotsprings.com is a good and useful site, including some info on neighboring states, and its article on red spider mites!
  26. trails.com/toptrails.aspx?area=10591: Very commercial website, but the info is good. This one's for Washington.
  27. goldmyer.org: Goldmyer Hot Springs, up the Middle Fork Snoqualmie.

    climbing:
  28. Climbing Links

    skiing:
  29. Skiing Links

    birding:
  30. wa.audubon.org: the Washington Audubon Society
  31. wos.org: the Washington Ornithological Society, with a rare bird alert and much more
  32. birdweb.org is the Seattle Audubon Society's superb online guide to the birds of Washington state.
  33. birds.cornell.edu: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides comprehensive resources, some free and some by subscription.
  34. scn.org/earth/tweeters: Tweeters Birding E-mail, including a great list of links
  35. pwrc.usgs.gov/birds: the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey

    weather:
    I have weather-related links scattered around on three different pages:
  36. science_math.html#weather is the main list,
  37. links to glossaries and such are at wx_gloss.html#links,
  38. and inFAQ.html#links covers links to Numerical Weather Prediction
  39. Or for Washington state forecasts, just go to atmos.washington.edu/data/weather.html#forecasts

    maps:
  40. nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html is where the USGS list of free online topographical map and aerial photography sources.
  41. There's always Google Maps.
  42. Plus, my main map listing.

    gear:
  43. Outdoor Gear

    husbandry:
    gardening
  44. gardening.wsu.edu: first rate Gardening in Western Washington
  45. Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the Center for Urban Horticulture, UW
  46. burpee.com, garden.org, and gardenweb.com
    house repair
  47. AskTheBuilder.com
  48. bobvila.com
  49. ducts.lbl.gov/ducttape: Duct tape?

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