Sat, Sep 27, 2025
Our group of ten hikers enjoyed a stunning PNW fall day as we made our way to and from the Kendall Katwalk. This day hike is part of our summer hiking series, Lookouts and High Places and was the final hike needed for several of our participants today.
Sun, Sep 28, 2025
Fun technical rock, a bit of bushwhacking, and a lot of fall colors. A great way to spend an early fall weekend.
Fri, Sep 26, 2025
This is a fun class 2 or 3- whitewater trip on a Wild and Scenic River in central Oregon. Beautiful area, clear water, spawning steelhead, and lots of fun rapids.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025
This is an excellent class 3/3+ whitewater trip of about 7 miles on a Wild and Scenic River with spawning steelhead, exciting rapids, and excellent scenery.
Sun, Sep 28, 2025
Beautiful Margaret Lake (one person took a swim) and some took the side trip to Mount Margaret for a great view. But smoke dampened the views and some people found the smoke to be irritating.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025
A traverse from the Pinnacle Lake trailhead to the Mount Pilchuck Trailhead (or vice versa) done as a key exchange. The group split into two and met in the middle to exchange keys for cars in the two trailhead parking lots.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025 - Sun, Sep 28, 2025
Most parties approach Big Snow Mountain via Hardscrabble Lakes (involving a bike approach). We opted for the Myrtle Lake route and climbed Big Snow Mountain via Northwest Shoulder—a quieter, more rugged alternative. The trail to Myrtle Lake is mellow after a steep first mile, but beyond the lake, it’s a full-on adventure: intense bushwhacking, boulder field hopping, and steep duff traverses with veggie belays. The alpine scenery at Big Snow Lake and Snowflake Lake was stunning and made the rugged approach worthwhile. I’d rate this scramble route S5/T3 overall, with two short but notable T4 sections.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025
It was a traditional Basic climb taking the full 12 hours. For a summer approach it wasn't as bad as I remembered, at least now that I am home.
Wed, Sep 24, 2025
A quick after work scramble to the top of Guye Peak. Despite a little bit of smoke, we saw some gorgeous fall colors and made it back just after sunset.
Wed, Aug 13, 2025
Successful mid-week hike with good weather and few hikers.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025
1 day climb of Whitman Crest - canceled due to late season conditions.
Thu, Jul 17, 2025 - Sun, Jul 20, 2025
An intermediate alpine climb to the summit of Austera Peak in mid-July 2025, navigating technical glacier travel, rappels, rock climbs, and rock scrambles. We were forced to cancel the traverse to Primus Peak due to snowmelt, fog, and low visibility.
Sat, Sep 20, 2025
A fun scramble with short sections of moderate spice on a warm sunny day.
Sat, Sep 13, 2025
A dreamy day of climbing in the PNW, only regret was wishing more people were there to eat Danyels amazing magical brownies.
Tue, Sep 23, 2025
7 of us hiked above the recent inversion to better air quality and fantastic views from Alaska Mountain's east ridge (17.5 miles 3900'), with good looks at 5 lakes, a pileated woodpecker and soaring bald eagle, and a foot-soak in Ridge Lake on the return. We also shaved a mile of switchbacks by exploring the "abandoned" trail down Commonwealth to a gorgeous waterfall.
Sun, Jul 27, 2025
Fantastic trip with a fantastic crew! We had perfect weather heading into this ~12 hour day. The parking lot had plenty of open spots on arrival around 6:30/7am and the trail leading to the start of the climb was generally empty. Caught sight of a few goats chillin and some green larch trees hiding in plain sight! We did cross paths with a few climbing groups on our ascent, most of which were coming down our intended path after ascending the other side of the mountain, but there was plenty of room to operate. Much of the ascent was scrambly between the actual climbing pitches. All in all - it was a very fun day. And an awesome way to wrap up my last required experience field trip for basic alpine climbing graduation :)
Sat, Sep 20, 2025
1 day scramble of Pyramid Peak
Sun, Sep 21, 2025
First time holding our flatwater course field trip 2 here. It worked well!
Sat, Sep 20, 2025
Early Fall day on Slippery Slab - Team of 5 with one leader... tips!
Sat, Sep 20, 2025
If you actually manage to stay on the trail, which is not easy, this is more of a hike than a scramble IMV, although one's less adventurous hiker friends will probably nope out of it. On the way down I did not do any face-in down climbing so in my book that means the difficulty is class 2 at most. On the other hand, due to loose rock you should bring a helmet. I've heard there is a more interesting class 2-3 route up the south ridge and I'll try that out next trip when I have more time.
