sara ludeman
Climbing
Successful
Beautiful two-summit scramble, but website difficulty misleading!
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Great weather for my mentored lead. Had a great strong group that did well route finding and navigating the rocky ridge.
Great weather, uncrowded route on a familiar peak, and fun exploration
A gentle hike through the forest on a well maintained, popular trail to Talapus Lake and Olallie Lake. Great for beginners or those who are looking for a relatively easy trail close to Seattle and the Eastside.
NF road open, would recommend a high clearance vehicle after crossing Lennox Creek bridge. Off-trail route starts at end of the road as described in listing, no snow on this trip requiring additional elevation gain to avoid brush, approx 500 ft. No water available.
Great hike to the summit of Dickerman Mountain. Amazing views of more mountains than you can count.
Not just 3-4,000 bats.....harbor seals with a bald eagle eating an afterbirth, peregrine falcon fledglings hunting for juvenile bats, and about 300 cormorant nests in a relatively new colony across the bay. Plus an intact shed snake skin. This is a fabulous night trip!
This hike is about 5 miles with about 1000 feet of elevation gain. It includes many of the iconic features of Mt. Rainier National Park: lakes, river, water falls, meadows, woods, and scenic views.
Great climb in the North Cascades that provides a great overnight challenge.
Enjoyable easy paddle with soft rain, little wind, seals and herons.
A pleasant day, overcast but no rain, cool temps, solitude, and flowers blooming!
Managing rope drag is the name of the game for this climb. Breaking things up into shorter pitches would be helpful instead of trying to stretch things out. I would recommend doing 3 single-rope rappels to help reduce the chances of getting ropes stuck. We did double raps and with so much rope flying around on the pull, we got our ropes stuck twice. Other than that, it was a great trip!
4 hours up to the summit and back to the bottom of the summit block, (where we left our packs). 2 hours back to the car. Rock on the summit was wet on this drippy day, but there are good holds so we took our time and were fine. Trail is amazing nice. Except for a short rocky section, it was like walking on a pine-needle carpet :-)
We launched at ~ 9:45 am with out incidence from Roosevelt Beach into a shore break that was a little larger than predicted by "Magic Seaweed, (from Westport)". Everyone got thru on the first try, we regrouped and paddled south to the offshore rock outside of Copalis Rock. Everyone joined in the Rock Gardening fun! We then paddled south to the outfall of the Copalis river. We made our way over the bar,a entered the calm, slough. After lunch we again rode some waves before heading back North to our cars.