Go Griz!

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Washington Grizzly Stadium aerial photo during game 2003

We’ve made Montana Griz football a constant companion. There’s nothing like being in Washington Grizzly Stadium in Missoula for a consummate beat-down of the visiting team. Welcome to Missoula, beeatch!! 😝Since moving to Seattle, our goal has been to attend at least one game per year! Go Griz!

Fly Washington Passport stamps 20 October 2025

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After the Lord Huron concert we stayed in the historic Davenport Hotel and then headed home, visiting five more Washington state airports! Spokane International Airport (Geiger Field) (GEG) I’ve flown out of GEG many times over the last 25 years – it used to be to get anywhere from Missoula you had to drive to … Read more

Fly Washington Passport stamps 19 October 2025

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As we were headed to Spokane for a Lord Huron concert, we took the opportunity to visit some North Central and Eastern Washington airports. Here’s what we found! Othello Municipal Airport (S70) As is expected with most “east side” rural Washington airports, there’s not a lot here except agricultural operations. Othello Municipal has no pilot … Read more

Lord Huron, Spokane, October 2025

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Although my favorite band Lord Huron was playing in Seattle, we had so much fun seeing them in 2023 at the Spokane Pavilion we made the cross-state trip to see them again!! In addition, the Pavilion only seats ~4500 people, a far more intimate gathering than the 20k seat Climate Pledge Arena! This was hands-down … Read more

Mossback’s Northwest

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Cascade PBS (nee KCTS, Crosscut, Cascade Public Media) has a fantastic short-form show about fascinating history, mystery, and peculiarities of the Pacific Northwest. As a Cascade PBS sustaining member, I was invited to a sneak leak (that’s a typo but I’m going with it, lol) of the upcoming seasons at their Seattle HQ. See Pat … Read more

Lake Washington paddle

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October 6th after work we dropped off the 4Runner at the Concrete Beach at Magnuson, and then loaded the canoe on the hilariously small Crosstrek to drive the few blocks down to our local Lake City Beach Park for a one-way paddle. This was the first year we paddled anything from Lake City, and the … Read more

Aleutian Aviation musings

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I love looking at Google Earth satellite images of far-away and remote places and dream about what it would be like to explore these isolated corners of the earth. Here are some musings about aviating in the Aleutian islands of Alaska. Akutan Akutan is a small fishing village, population ~1500 in the Aleutian islands northeast … Read more

The first seaplane pilot

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While reading Jay Spenser’s highly recommended “The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings,” I learned that motorcycle and aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss was the first seaplane pilot and considered the father of Naval Aviation! Of course, having recently earned my Airplane Single Engine Sea (seaplane) rating, I was thrilled to learn this! Curtiss was the … Read more

Good airports for camping PNW

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Daryl airplane camping in 2003 in Montana

Here’s an alphabetical list of some airports that are potentially great for camping in the PNW. In addition to those, I leave you with a list of ones that are less desirable and the reasons I think as much, in case you’re wondering. In all cases, get yourself some earplugs from Loop, you might need … Read more

Public soft-field runways in Washington

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Here’s a list of selected soft-field runways available to the public in Washington state. Airports participating in Fly Washington Passport stamp are listed in bold. Runway surface is “TURF” unless otherwise indicated. Region Airport ID Runway length Elevation Northwest Bandera State 4W0 2344 x 100 1636 (Southwest) Cedars North W58 1960 x 50 275 Olympic … Read more