Blowdown Mountain – 4,560ft January 12, 2017 I left town at 1:30pm after work and was soon hiking up the Mt Si trail. I reached the base of Mt Si, but the scramble to the summit looked too icy to be safe. I changed to snowshoes, and continued breaking trail… Continue reading
Kendall Knob #2 (4,720ft) Eric, Aaron, Anna January 7, 2016 We hiked up from Snoqualmie pass through the woods to the top of a small local maximum north of the ski resort. There were plenty of other backcountry skiers up there, and we summitted just before the bad weather rolled… Continue reading
Muir Snowfield BC skiing, Mt Rainier Eric and Aaron December 24, 2016 We drove up to Rainier National Park Saturday morning and reached the Longmire gate just after it opened at 9am. After putting on the chains we drove up the snowy road to Paradise and were soon hiking up… Continue reading
Dec 16-21, 2016 Eric and Katie We drove out of Seattle Friday morning after I submitted my final grades, and were in Bozeman 10 hours later. The forecast was for -22F that night in Bozeman, but -31F in West Yellowstone. The choice of where to sleep that night was obvious… Continue reading
Hex Mountain – 5,034ft December 14, 2016 Eric and Aaron The weather cleared this Wednesday and Aaron and I were both free for a trip. We drove up to near the town of Ronald, and started hiking up a snowy logging road towards Hex Mountain, with skis strapped to our packs…. Continue reading
Little Si – 1,560ft December 10, 2016 Eric Gilbertson I was trying to drive to the trailhead for Dog Mountain, but with the recent snow all the way down to sea level, the roads were extremely snowy. I got about 20 miles from North Bend on snowy logging roads, but… Continue reading
French Cabin Mountain (Attempt to 4,600ft) Eric, Katie, Richard Dec 4, 2016 A few fresh feet of snow had fallen Saturday night in the mountains and we decided to try to hike up French Cabin Mountain (no, there’s not actually a cabin on top). It was a bit ambitious at… Continue reading
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