Adam Sawyer

Tryon Creek is Oregon’s only state park within a major metropolitan area (Portland lucks out again).  It is also a great place to check out the mosses, lichens, and ferns that are now at their winter peak. Click here to give it a read.

Our guest this week was Sharon Wiest, the Executive Chef at the Culinary Center in Lincoln City. She is overseeing the big Jambalaya Cook Off this weekend in Lincoln City. The whole town is turning into a mini-Louisiana just so we here in Oregon and Washington can taste the true southern hospitality. Listen to the show here, and watch me get a little too excited about andouille sausage below.

FYI, this thing is awesome. Read the review here.

In the latest installment of Portland Family Outdoors, I give you the lowdown on Beacon Rock. Vertigo inducing cliff-edged catwalks have never been so much fun. Read about its history here.

The Greenlite Motor company of Portland is making a 2 passenger car that will get 100 MPG. CEO Tim Miller joined Heather and myself to talk about what is coming down the pipe for all of us. Listen to the show here.

In this episode of the KEEN HybridLife Radio show, Heather and I share  stories of close calls in the snowy wilderness and talk with Sgt. Sean Collinson of the Clackamas Search and Rescue about a few safety tips that can make the difference between life and death. Listen here.

How do you make a waterfall even more beautiful? Freeze it! My latest Portland Family Outdoors column is all about winter waterfall hunting. Read the column here.

In the war against the Pacific Northwest winter, potato-leek soup is an excellent weapon of choice. Read my latest What’s the Soup review here.

Wildfires play a natural role in the forest. Angel’s Rest affords the opportunity to get an up-close look at what those fires do and the regrowth process. Read about it here.

Heather and I were supposed to interview a waste management specialist about reducing waste during the holidays. That was before Skype had a worldwide outage minutes before the show. So instead you can listen to me telling Heather that re-gifting is ok, as long as you don’t do it the way my grandmother does. Check it out. Bonus interview with Jackie Lang, the Communications Director of Waste Management in the Northwest here.