Rainier Attempt via DC to 12,800ft Sept 7-8, 2023 This year the routes on Rainier have melted out unusually early. In mid August a heat wave took out many snow bridges across crevasses, and soon afterwards the guide companies stopped guiding for the season. Usually this wouldn’t happen until mid… Continue reading
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Alpomish (4668m, IV, 7 pitch 5.8), Official Country Highpoint of Uzbekistan First Ascent Peak 4643 (incorrectly referred to online as “Khazret Sultan”) (4643m, III, 2 pitch 5.7), Second Highest Peak in Uzbekistan Aug 21-26, 2023 Eric and Andreas First Ascent of Alpomish Aug 21 – Taxi to Sarytog village, hike… Continue reading
Pik Kommunizma/Ismoil Somoni (24,590ft/7495m) Highest Peak in Tajikistan Aug 14-17, 2023 Eric, Andreas, Ian, Reuben, Paul Aug 14 – climb from basecamp to plateau (5900m) Aug 15 – move to peak dushanbe camp (7000m) Aug 16 – summit (7495m), return to plateau Aug 17 – descend to basecamp There are… Continue reading
Pik Korzhenevskaya (7,105m) Aug 6, 2023 Eric, Andreas, Reuben, Ian Aug 4 – BC to 6100m, drop cache, sleep 5600m Aug 5 – move to 6100m camp Aug 6 – summit, return to BC My goal for the summer was to finish climbing the snow leopard peaks, the 7000m peaks… Continue reading
Bazarduzu (14,652ft/4466m) July 25-26, 2023 Eric, Andreas, Ian Our big goal for the summer was to climb two 7000m peaks in Tajikistan: khorzenevskaya and communisma. This would hopefully allow Andreas and I to finish the snow leopards list, the 7000m peaks of the former Soviet union. The standard way to… Continue reading
Washington Top 100 Peaks Updated List Eric Gilbertson 2017 – 2023 Summary of results: Added Peaks – Big Kangaroo, East Fury, Solitude, Chalangin, Blackcap Removed Peaks – Sherman, Luna, St Helens, Switchback, Flora Order changed based on updated elevations Peaks with multiple summits: Sherpa – West summit true summit, 2ft… Continue reading
Mt Ballard Survey July 18, 2023 9:30am – 6:30pm, 3 miles biking, 7 miles hiking Summary of results: Mt Ballard elevation 8,371.0ft+/-0.1ft Still a WA top 100 peak I had one final ground survey to conduct before being satisfied with my updated list of the true WA 100 highest peaks…. Continue reading
Montana Dinosaur Digging July 9-16, 2023 Katie, Lily and I drove out to eastern Montana to help a UW paleontology group dig up dinosaur bones. We took two days to drive out to Jordan, Montana where we camped out at the property of some locals. Each morning we drove an… Continue reading
Blackcap Mountain Survey – New WA Top 100 Peak July 7, 2023 32 miles, 3:30am – 12:30am Summary of results: Elevation 8,402.4ft +/- 0.1ft, Key col elevation 7,996.2ft +/- 0.1ft (NGVD29 datum), Prominence 406.2ft +/-0.2ft. New WA Top 100 peak. I’m continuing to determine the true WA top 100 peaks… Continue reading