Alyssa Opland
Climbing
Successful
Always a lovely trip! Stayed at Meadow Creek camp and Stehekin Lakeview Camp - was a great decision to get to Stehekin by night 2, as then we could have a leisurely walk to the bakery the next morning! But a few suggestions in the detail below.
We hiked up the South Coldwater trail and camped two nights at Ridge Camp. On the in between day we had spectacular day hiking up to the Boundary trail, Coldwater saddle and partially up Coldwater Peak.
Overnight trip for Backpacking students
Good conditioner with a nice view for dinner.
Successful instructional trip except for turning back a few hundred feet short of the summit. Except for some rain conditions were good for scramble travel.
This great, but long early season snow scramble had fantastic views (~5000’ gain and ~20 miles due to the locked logging road gate). Should remain a snow scramble for the next 4 weeks, then a hot-dry hike after that.
A beautiful day for the ascent, challenging weather on the descent.
Beautiful day, some vegetation, a snow covered talus field and 360' views all around
We climbed the S Arete of SEWS in 14 hours car to car on May 22 2021. Group of eight; there were 22 total on the route that day and we shared resources at times. Grouse, pika, and goat sighted. We made good time on our approach, we were slow to climb and scramble when snow was present, our descent was well organized and quick.
3 day climb of Jack Mountain / Nohokomeen Headwall
A beautiful day's strenuous outing with views all around
Not many travelers for a Sunday morning. Birds sang to us along the trail and a Barred Owl spotted next to the trail to showing off their quiet beauty. Lots of wildflowers spotted by our naturalist hikers.
We were a week late for skiing the west gullies of Earl. Mary and Judy east slopes still had good skiing. Coverage starts at about were the Earl peak trail leaves the Bean Basin trail (1500m elevation) Visual scouting of the gullies from that point showed that 200 vft of hiking would be needed to reach snow from the summit and while there was enough snow in the 2nd to most northern west facing gully to "go" it was quite narrow at the choke point. So we opted to ski the east aspect slopes of Judi and Mary. Bean creek crossing very easy on massive pile of avalanche debris filling the creek for a 1/4 mile from the crossing up to gully from Judi's shoulder.
Our group walked the long paved trail that parallels Market St. through the wetland and then returned to the main part of the park before following both boardwalks to the edge of Lake Washington.
