Oct 1, 2016 Eric and Katie We planted our bikes in Rockport, then drove up Highway 20 to the border of North Cascades National Park and put our packrafts in the Skagit River. It was a fun class I-II paddle down 16 miles back to Rockport, with a few heavy… Continue reading
Black Peak (8,970ft) Eric Gilbertson September 24, 2016 I waited a bit too long to find a hiking partner for Saturday, so ended up going out solo. Black peak looked like a good hundred-highest mountain to solo, given that it was mostly on trails and there would probably be other… Continue reading
Emerald Peak (8,422ft) and Pinnacle Mountain (8,400ft) Eric and Katie Sept 20-22, 2016 We hiked in the Pyramid Mountain trail for 12.5 miles and set up camp at the base of Cardinal Mountain. It was still officially summer, but it started snowing in the evening and we woke up to… Continue reading
Eric and Katie September 18, 2016 A fun hike and short scramble to a summit close to Seattle.
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