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Urban Hikes Washington & Meadowdale Beach Park

Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020by Gabby

As I’ve said before, I love urban hikes. They are accessible year-round and some are a great way to keep in hiking shape year-round! So imagine my delight to learn Beers at the Bottom have a new hiking book out all on urban hikes in Washington!

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Off-Season Conditioning

Posted on February 26, 2020March 24, 2020by Gabby

If you have any big hikes or summits planned for this summer, keeping your body in hiking shape through winter can be tough! Here’s some tips that help me.

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Cable Line

Posted on October 23, 2019by Gabby

Tiger Mountain offers miles of trails, including my previous training hike at West Tiger 3. You can reach that same summit in a fraction of the miles–for a price. 

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Mailbox Peak

Posted on October 16, 2019March 14, 2022by Gabby

Mailbox Peak. The name alone has hikers all over Washington either shudder or cower in fear. But for MSH training, it had to be done!

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Granite Mountain

Posted on October 8, 2019September 29, 2020by Gabby

In the midst of buying a house and moving, it seemed I’d never catch up to my blog! Luckily (?) a sick day has knocked me on my rear, unable to do anything but sip fluids and write.

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West Tiger 3

Posted on September 11, 2019October 21, 2019by Gabby

It seems like forever ago that I was conditioning for Mt. St. Helens with challenging hikes in the greater Seattle area. After Mount Townsend, the next one on my list was West Tiger 3 near Issaquah.

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Mount Townsend

Posted on August 7, 2019January 22, 2020by Gabby

Once I returned from my awesome Cali roadtrip in June, I knew I had to buckle down and hit the trails to prepare for an August summit of Mount St. Helens. Next up was one of the areas most-loved conditioning hikes–Mount Townsend.

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Heybrook Lookout

Posted on June 4, 2019June 19, 2019by Gabby

Clocking in at two miles round-trip, this hike might seem like the perfect leg-stretcher on the way home from adventures in Eastern Washington. But be warned, it’s a quad-burner!

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I'm Gabby. When I'm not drinking beer and hiking, I'm likely drinking coffee at my desk and thinking about beer and hiking.

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