sunday. diving. well, snorkeling but diving sounds better. ok, so this was something i had wanted to do so badly but didnt think it was going to come to fruition so i didnt get my hopes up. but sunday morning uncle chris and i got up at 4:30 and met his friend steve at five and headed for the ocean. it took over an hour to get there and it was really foggy and dark when we arrived. we changed into our wetsuits, mine was pretty tight, and we hiked down to the wate...

... so we had breakfast at the herralas and then we spontaneously decided to head out to yosemite natnl park! i was really excited and we were on the road in around an hour. we stopped at a california fast food chain called "in-n-out" and we got some good burgers. it took 3ish hours to get there and as we drove into the valley i got my first glimps of those famous rocks. it was unbelievable. the sheer magnitude was almost too much to take in. we stopped...

Welcome… to jon detweilers semi-annual journal. He is lazy and only gets around to it every 6 months or so, so here is your little snippet for the fall/winter season. saturday. today uncle jon and i got up bright and early to hit the water again. this time back down to the skykomish. the sun was already up by the time we got there and there was only one guy on the water. david was along today and we fished for a while and then he caught one and then got ...

friday. we got up at "o dark-thirty" heh, and uncle jon and i went to his mens breakfast which went very well inspite of nearly forgetting to go buy the "breakfast" part of the meeting. we then headed to the Nisqually river which was about an hour and a half away. we met his friend who incredibly enough was named john. chaos. anyways, the fishing was great, except for the crowd of other guys there. i got my first taste of "combat fishing&...

Thursday. Today was an absolutely beautiful day. I finally got to sleep in a bit and about 11 am I left to go on a day hike to Wallace Falls in Gold Bar, WA. I got to drive by myself and arrived around one. I was a bit skeptical at first because my first visual and first sounds were those of towering electrical lines and the crackling noises they made. But after a few minutes those sounds were replace by those of rushing water and chirping birds. I enjoyed a beau...