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Indian, Shy Bear, and Quarry | Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park
Abundant ferns and moss glisten with yesterday’s rain. Banana slugs drag slime across flats of mud. The mid-morning sun peeks between...
Missy La Vone
Oct 21, 20241 min read


West Tiger & Nook Trail, Issaquah
We start the hike cold: cold ears and cold arms and we walk in the shade and I stuff my fingers in my pockets and I think about mom like...
Missy La Vone
Oct 2, 20241 min read

Bronco Trail
The road to Bronco Trail is mostly paved except for the last couple of miles, when I dodge occasional potholes on packed gravel. My...
Missy La Vone
May 5, 20243 min read


Fremont Saddle, Superstition Mountains
On Wednesday, my first official day off from work, I head back to the Superstition Mountains, a place I haven't been since 2022, when...
Missy La Vone
May 2, 20243 min read


Tom's Thumb trail
I start the Sonoran desert hike just before 9 am, the rocky peaks of the McDowell mountains a crisp outline against the cloudless blue....
Missy La Vone
Apr 30, 20245 min read


Switzerland & France
THE HIKES Gantrisch Nature Park, Nunenenberg Leiterepass Schwalmere: The hike started out in cold fog that shrouded two mountain peaks;...
Missy La Vone
Nov 20, 202312 min read

Monday-Tuesday
Monday I decided I wanted to try to get into a doctor Monday morning (before Doug and I took our road trip outside of the main city)...
Missy La Vone
Jul 5, 20236 min read

the last days
The rest of Sunday was lovely; we went to the Selfoss community center, which was swarming with kids and pale-skinned Icelanders...
Missy La Vone
Jun 16, 20237 min read


The weekend, so far
The robo-vaccum is sweeping; Ivar's chatting in Icelandic in the laundry room, folding clothes. Lucy's laying on the ground next to my...
Missy La Vone
Jun 11, 20234 min read
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