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		<title>A Blustery Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chuckanut Mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I began to question my decision to celebrate my 72nd birthday with a solo hike in the Chuckanuts as the wind began to whistle through the trees on my way up the South Lost Lake Trail. The trail was littered with debris from previous windstorms but I comforted myself by observing all the places on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Spectacle-ular Hike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven hikers set out on this warm day for a hike to Yellow Aster Butte. The air was little less clear than it had been two days before when three of us had gone up the same trail to assess its condition, but the view was still grand just a short distance from the trailhead. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=1002&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Keep Cool</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/return-to-keep-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Shuksan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday Fred and I drove up into the mountains to investigate the old &#8220;Keep Cool&#8221; trail as a possibility for this Thursday&#8217;s hike with the Senior Trailblazers. We are still bedeviled by the extraordinary snowpack in the North Cascades, a residue from heavy snowfalls during the spring months. We are scheduled to go on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=962&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bat Mitzvah Day, cont.</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/bat-mitzvah-day-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, 8:00 AM As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted by real life, the Shabbat service last night went well. The service is mostly sung, reminding me of the Roman Catholic high masses of my youth, and Lana led many of the segments. Another similarity with the old masses is that it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=958&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling Man</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/traveling-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you are interested, I am writing about our trip to Vegas on my other blog. Actually I&#8217;ll be doing that even if you are not interested<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=954&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good intel, bad news</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/good-intel-bad-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/?p=942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning Fred and I headed up Mount Baker Highway to get a first-hand assessment of the snow conditions on the trails along High Divide, which are usually the first of the high country trails to melt out. The Trailblazers hiking group is scheduled to go to Excelsior Pass and Welcome Pass on the next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=942&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burnout Checkout</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/burnout-checkout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 03:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Shuksan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall a clear-cutting operation on a parcel of private land adjacent to Larrabee State Park destroyed some informal trails that had been used for years to complete some loop hikes on the south end of Chuckanut Ridge. On the map to the right the so-called &#8220;Burnout Road&#8221;, officially known as South Chuckanut Road, is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=934&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither go we?</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/whither-go-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 23:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After all the time I&#8217;ve spent on Stewart Mountain the last few weeks, as described in my previous posts, Act I and Act II, the only thing I&#8217;m sure of is that I don&#8217;t want to take the senior hikers on my bushwhack route. (Actually, I could be talked into that but I&#8217;m not holding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=915&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bushwhacking Olsen Creek &#8211; Act II</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/bushwhacking-olsen-creek-act-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/bushwhacking-olsen-creek-act-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scene 1 I was not satisfied with the route I&#8217;d found on my previous trip up Trail #8 in the Olsen Creek trail &#8220;system&#8221; so I headed back there on April 18th. Since I had gained a fair amount of altitude early on and lost it all later, I thought that if I started the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=898&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bushwhacking Olsen Creek &#8211; Act I</title>
		<link>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/bushwhacking-olsen-creek-act-i/</link>
		<comments>http://geezerhiker.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/bushwhacking-olsen-creek-act-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geezerwriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twin Sisters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On our last Senior Trailblazers hike of 2010 we explored some trails on Stewart Mountain east of Lake Whatcom in hopes of getting to a spot with a nice view of the Twin Sisters. But we were not successful &#8211; the trails that I thought would join just below the view don&#8217;t quite. But there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geezerhiker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9694115&amp;post=882&amp;subd=geezerhiker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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