David Judish
Day Hiking
Successful
Very efficient smooth climbing trip with perfect weather and some beautiful Fall colors.
One-day intensive alpine ice instruction with guides from Northwest Mountain School, aligned to FT1 expectations from the Alpine Ice module.
Good conditions. No picketts or snowshoes. 2-4 inches of crust on fair ice. Scrape it off and use screws all the way. Snow free approach. Road rough but passable. Fog obscured decent recommend following GPS track. 11 hrs 45 minutes car to car. Record for branch. We weren't fast but we weren't lost. Cold in AM.
Early Sunday morning trip with - No hikers, no views and no sun. But a 3.5 hours round trip. Planned as a conditioning scramble. One student graudated.
After Work scramble- great sunset views. Upper Trail head cuts 4 miles of round trip.
Great one day trip, ideally planned as a scouting trip for Vesper - Sperry peak. Good group, efficient trip, less than 8 hrs round trip
Gorgeous autumn day for this long trip, fabulous views!
Three day backpack to Flapjack Lakes in the Olympics.
Traveling up to the ridge between Silver and Tinkham, followed by a traverse over both of Tinkham’s peaks and a descent to Mirror Lake, makes this do-able as a scramble in wet weather.
The open book and the ledges to its right were still wet, so we opted for a detour.
The weather was very cooperative and the view from the top was really amazing. It was a great half day day hike
Escaped the rain, got a few "Land of Mordor" glimpses towards the Enchantments.
Bluebird late summer weekday for a fun scramble up Dege, Antler, and McNeeley Peaks.
Echo and Observation Rocks via Knapsack Pass on a spectacular day.
We had perfect weather for this 8 mile hike with close to 3,000 feet of elevation gain.