This has been a long year.

The majority of my weekends have been spent above 4,000 feet in the North Cascade Range, first in-training in the ancient art of scrambling, then later serving as a mountain steward for the Forest Service.

My home is overgrown with a years worth of weeds, I have had an explosion of alder trees and I cannot find my way to the back of my shop where my radio lab lay like a bomb went off.

It has taken months to start to erect the first of the sky wires, wire antennas that span from tree top to tree top - all centered with their feed lines centered over where my radio shack is located.

I have a huge collection of photos yet to upload from this years hikes.

Now I'll spend the coming weeks and months digging out and digging in for winter.