Quartz Mountain (4,641 ft) Eric Gilbertson December 3, 2016 It was forecast to be snowy all day so I went for a below-treeline peak on the Homecourt 100 list. Quartz mountain is actually the lowest one on the list, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy – there’s no trail to… Continue reading
Thorp Mountain (5,854 ft) and Red Mountain (5,880ft) Eric and Birkan November 20, 2016 Birkan and I parked at the trailhead for Little Joe Lake Sunday morning and started our hike shortly after dawn. Surprisingly, there was another car at the trailhead. We encountered snow within the first mile, and… Continue reading
Mount Thomas (5,269 ft) Eric and Katie November 19, 2016 We had a fun, short hike up one of the more accessible homecourt 100 mountains Saturday. We hit snow around 5,000ft at Para Peak, but it never got deep enough to need the snowshoes we carried up. After a quick… Continue reading
Mount Price (5,587ft) Eric Gilbertson November 13, 2016 It was a rainy Sunday and I decided to hike a mountain that was below treeline, so doable in any conditions. I drove to the end of the road on the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and started hiking up the Dingford creek… Continue reading
Eric and Katie November 12, 2016 We drove up to North Bend, dropped off bikes at a bridge, then drove up to Tanner. After the last rain ended we put in our packrafts and paddled down some fun rapids back to the bikes, then biked back to the car.
Mount Daniel (7,960 ft) – Highest mountain in King county Eric Gilbertson November 11, 2016 There were no classes for Veteran’s Day so I decided to climb the highest mountain in the county. I left Seattle at 5am Friday morning and was soon driving up forest road 4430 to the… Continue reading
Raven Ridge – 8,500+ft Eric and Katie November 6, 2016 We drove out east Saturday evening in the pouring rain and slept at the Libby Creek trailhead. Matthew and I had visited this area in February, but the road to the trailhead wasn’t plowed and we’d had to hike in… Continue reading
Lake Mountain – 8,371ft Eric and David October 29-30, 2016 We discovered that it’s essentially winter above 5,000ft in the Cascades, with many feet of snow, cornice-topped ridges, and cold. We still somehow managed to get up one of the Washington Hundred Highest Mountains. On Friday night we drove up… Continue reading
Red Mountain – 5,890 ft Eric Gilbertson October 25, 2016 I shifted work around to get the afternoon off, and drove out of town at 2pm. I was hiking north on the PCT by 3pm. It was drizzling, but the forecast was for drying out later in the evening. After… Continue reading
Snoqualmie Mountain – 6,278 ft Eric Gilbertson October 23, 2016 I left Seattle at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoon under sunny skies, and was out hiking by 2:45pm from the Alpental parking lot. The trail up snoqualmie mountain is unofficial, so it’s unmarked and unmaintained, but I found it pretty easily… Continue reading