Author: Daniel Hall
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Hidden Falls via Tarbell Trail
Hidden Falls lies about 5½ miles along the Tarbell Trail, starting from the northern-most trailhead, which sits by an isolated parking lot. If it’s a busy day there may be one or two other cars sitting along the Washington DNR’s signature-style pit toilet but other than that your interactions with others might be limited to…
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Bell’s Mountain Trail
Bell’s Mountain Trail is one of my favorite hikes in the Yacolt Burn State Forest for taking people who have little to no hiking experience. It’s open to foot, bike, and horse traffic, and sometimes you might even see adventurous trail runners making the attempt upwards. The trail itself isn’t too difficult, only around 3.1% grade…
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“Earning” Fitness
Recently, I did a morning run, one that I considered long for myself. Afterwards, like any other runner, I dove into those statistics and numbers. I have an Apple Watch, so I have to go through a bunch of different apps depending on what I want to see, and Apple Health provides a few of…
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Panic at the SPA!
I began programming in 2015, now that’s not that long of a time, but coming on my 10 year anniversary I feel that it’s long enough that I can sit on my high pony and talk about the what the “good old days” where like. Really, it was the best of times, it was the…
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A Quickstart Guide to Privacy
Edit (October 28, 2025): This post is from Aug. 2023 (that’s over two years old at this point), a lot of things have changed since then. I’m keeping it up just for the sake of things. For pretty good, and easy, advise to follow check out Privacy Guides. Nowadays it’s nearly impossible to like there’s no…