Great Sand Dunes National Park Highpoint (10,520ft) Eric and Jake, Nov 9, 2019 Friday night I flew to Denver for the long Veteran’s Day weekend. The plan was to try to climb three national park highpoints in Colorado over the next three days. We would start with Great Sand Dunes… Continue reading
Wildcat Lake Alpine Packrafting Nov 2-3, 2019 Eric and Katie We started from the Snow Lake trailhead at Snoqualmie Pass late Saturday morning carrying heavy overnight packs filled with all kinds of fun toys like a packraft, fishing rod, and tent. It was very crowded hiking up to Snow Lake… Continue reading
Buttermilk Ridge (8,267ft), Courtney (8,392ft), Gray (8,082ft), Baldy (7,810ft), Finney (8,110ft), Cheops (8,270ft), Beefhide (8,030ft), Seance (8,067ft) 48 miles 14,500ft gain 12:15am – 10:15pm (22 hours moving) I had Saturday free to go for a hike, but needed to be back in town by Saturday night. I was excited to… Continue reading
Truck Summit (4,120ft), McClellan Butte South (5,045ft), Pt 4787, Pt 4701 October 19, 2019, 12:15pm – 8:15pm 18 miles, Eric Gilbertson This trip ended up ranking very high on the character-building scale, much higher than I anticipated. That was probably due to the 8 continuous hours of being soaked from… Continue reading
Six Washington Top 200 Mountains car to car: Apex Mountain (8,297ft), The Pope/Chewuch (8,264ft), Wolframite Mountain (8,137ft), Bauerman Ridge (8,044ft), Arnold Peak (8,091ft), Horseshoe Mountain (7,956ft) October 12, 2019 Eric Gilbertson 59 miles, 11,000ft gain, 3:30am Saturday to 7:20am Sunday (28 hours moving) Trailhead – 3:30am Apex – 10:15am Pope… Continue reading
Nine Washington Top 200 Peaks in a weekend: Andrew (8,301ft), Amos (8,259ft), Fred (8,080ft), Sheep (8,274ft), Two Point (7,955ft), Bauble (8,025ft), Skeptical (7,949ft), Fool Hen (8,168ft), Fool Hen SE (8,055ft) Oct 5-6, 2019 Eric Gilbertson Saturday – 38 miles, 13,000ft gain, 4am – 10pm Sunday – 38 miles (31 hike,… Continue reading
Crater Peak (8,128ft) Eric Gilbertson Sept 28, 2019 I thought the northwest cascades were supposed to be sort of rain shadowed starting Saturday morning, though the weather might still be questionable. So I set out to hike an 8,000 ft peak, Crater Peak. It supposedly had a trail to the… Continue reading
Packraft – Biking on Point Reyes Eric and Matthew Sept 22, 2019 40 miles biking 2.5 miles packrafting 4.8 miles hiking I flew down to California for the weekend and we embarked on a multi-sport biking+packrafting+hiking overnight trip Matthew had been planning for a while. We started in the morning… Continue reading
Little Saint Helens (4,582ft), Humpback Mountain (5,174ft), Gardner (4,453ft), Scout Patrol Peak (4,693ft) Sept 16, 2019 Eric Gilbertson 20 miles It was a rainy weekday before classes started so I decided to hike some peaks below treeline close to town. I started with humpback, hiking up the trail on the… Continue reading
Jabal ash Shaykh/Mt Hermon – Syria Highpoint Attempt to 2350m Eric Gilbertson Sept 14, 2019 The highest point in Syria, Jabal ash Shaykh/Mt Hermon, has been on my radar for a while, but I’ve always thought I’d have to wait until the political situation improves significantly in Syria to attempt… Continue reading