Boston Peak – 8,894ft North Cascades, Washington Eric and Aaron September 16, 2016 I had just finished traveling around the world for 2 months over the summer hitting country highpoints and my flight landed in Seattle at 6pm on Thursday evening. I was hoping to take advantage of sunny weather… Continue reading
Piton des Neiges – 10,075ft Highpoint of Reunion Island Eric Gilbertson August 6, 2016 I was flying from Mauritius to Madagascar, and it just so happened that the cheapest flight had a 12-hour night layover in Reunion Island. Reunion is an overseas dependency of France, so isn’t really its own… Continue reading
Thunder Mountain/Nahteni Shih (Mt Nirvana) Overland Expedition 2016 Human-Powered Trip Without Air Support Eric Gilbertson and Len Vanderstar Assisted by Luke Weyman and Ron Vanderstar June 10-July 5, 2016 Read the writeup in the American Alpine Journal 2017 Itinerary: June 10 – Eric departs Seattle on Greyhound bus June 11 – Greyhound… Continue reading
Mt Olympus (7,969ft) Eric and Katie After a late start trying to pick up permits at the Quinault ranger station during business hours saturday morning we hit the trail at the Hoh visitor center at 11am Saturday morning. It was raining pretty hard, as would be expected in a rain… Continue reading
Low Mountain (5400ft) Eric Gilbertson May 22, 2016 I was looking for a nearby hike below treeline for this rainy weekend, and decided to try for Low Mountain again. I’d made it almost to the top in January but decided not to cross an avy slope because the conditions weren’t… Continue reading
Katie and Eric May 14, 2016 We originally planned to do a rock climb up the west ridge of Chair Peak near Snoqualmie pass, but it was raining at the trailhead so we left all the heavy climbing gear in the car and instead hiked up to snow lake, which… Continue reading
Liberty Bell – Beckey Route (5.6) Katie and Eric May 7, 2016 Highway 20 was just recently plowed, so Katie and I drove up to Washington pass Friday night and found an excellent plowed pulloff to camp out right at the pass. We had a leisurely morning looking up at… Continue reading
Katie and Eric April 30-May 1 We camped out on the edge of the Bumping River Friday night, then stashed our bikes in the woods Saturday morning and drove to the put-in at the Bumping Reservoir. This is in the national forest just east of Mt Rainier, below Chinook Pass…. Continue reading
Katie and Eric April 23-24 The Royal Columns climbing area on the Tieton River has an excellent collection of cracks to climb right next to the road. We spent a few days climbing here, and found an amazing campsite Saturday night up some rough dirt roads on the top of… Continue reading
Mt Baker Ski Attempt Eric and Greg April 16, 2016 It’s the right time of year for big ski descents with snow all the way from summits to trailheads, long days, and generally low avy danger. Greg and I hoped to get a 7,500ft+ ski descent from the summit of… Continue reading