Gardner Mountain (8,898 ft) and North Gardner Mountain (8,956 ft) Eric and Katie June 10-11, 2017 After climbing Reynolds Peak on Friday and eating dinner in Winthrop, we drove up to the Wolf Creek trailhead to spend the night. On Saturday we hiked up the easy, mostly-flat trail to Gardner… Continue reading
Reynolds Peak (8,512 ft) Eric and Katie June 9, 2017 The roads have finally melted out to most of the trailheads, and with the school semester just finished we drove out to the cascades Thursday night to camp at the Reynolds Creek trailhead. The trail was overgrown but snowfree until… Continue reading
North Palisade (14,242 ft) via U-Notch (~5.6) June 2-3, 2017 Eric and Matthew I flew down to San Jose Thursday night, and we were soon driving off into the mountains. After a quick dinner stop at Subway we reached the Eldorado National Forest around 11pm and found an excellent spot… Continue reading
Mount Olympus (7,969ft) Eric and Katie May 26-28, 2017 I had tried to climb Mt Olympus in March 2008, but was thwarted by thick rime ice plastering the summit pyramid, and had to settle for the false summit. In May 2016 Katie and I tried to summit, but had to… Continue reading
Primus Peak (8,508ft), Austera Peak (8,334 ft), Eldorado Peak (8,868ft) May 19-21, 2017 Eric and Aaron A sunny weekend was in store, and we decided to get in one last ski tour before too much snow melted out. We arrived at the North Cascades visitor center Friday morning and easily… Continue reading
Yakima River Packrafting Eric and Katie May 13, 2017 We drove down to the town of Thorp Saturday morning and deposited our bikes at a bridge crossing on the Thorp Highway. We then drove back up to South Cle Elum, parked near a baseball field, and inflated our packrafts. There… Continue reading
Argonaut Peak (8,453 ft) Eric and Matthew May 5-7, 2017 Matthew flew up for the weekend to climb a hundred highest mountain, and the big blue hole of good weather happened to be located east of the crest. Coincidentally, the Wenatchee National Forest had just updated the road conditions page… Continue reading
Snowfield Peak (8,347ft) Eric and Aaron April 28-29, 2017 With a tight weather window Friday evening through Saturday morning, we decided to try to climb a big peak in the Cascades. Snowfield peak is one with a road open and plowed to the trailhead, and looked like it might be… Continue reading
Carrizo Plain Matthew and Amanda April 22-23, 2017 Until a few days before this trip, I had never heard of Carrizo Plain National Monument. As we were deciding where to go for the weekend, I browsed the map and spotted a large area of green that I hadn’t previously noticed,… Continue reading
Pineapple Pass BC Skiing April 22, 2017 Eric and Aaron We drove up to Snoqualmie Pass in the morning and started skinning up from the Alpental ski lot around 9:30am. Rain was forecast to start at noon, but we still wanted to fit in a short tour. We skinned up… Continue reading