Basic Alpine Climb - Sahale Peak/Quien Sabe Glacier
Tue, Jul 19, 2016
A wet morning turned into a cloudy climb, and clearing views by afternoon. Steady progress took us car to car in 12.5 hours.
A wet morning turned into a cloudy climb, and clearing views by afternoon. Steady progress took us car to car in 12.5 hours.
Successful summit. Leader of record was Cebe Wallace but mentored leader was Han Yan
Paddle from Washington Park (Anacortes) to Friday Harbor via Cattle Pass and return via ferry.
Beautiful forecast for mostly sunny, started getting sunny around 11am, then all whiteout.
Snow/ice on upper Whitman glacier rock hard making running belay impossible. Required careful ice axe/crampon technique to ascend/descend safely. Protected summit block scramble with cordelette for an anchor; Camalot #s 1 and 2 and a double sling for protection.
This is a great sampler of the best of the Chuckanut Mtn. "backcountry" with multiple view spots and beautiful forest. Our loop was 13 miles and 2,530'.
A scramble of Mt. Carrie via Seven Lakes Basin trail, Heart Lake, Cat Basin camping.
Late season Mt. Hood via Old Chute
West side Mt. Hood Routes are not great in July!
Made the summits of Tyee Peak and Crescent Mountain in one long day with a great group
Strenuous but very beautiful one day traverse of Kaleetan Peak on July 16, 2016 that visited Snow Lake, Gem Lake, Chair Lake, Kaleetan Peak, and Melakwa Lake. Dropped car off at the Denny Creek trailhead before starting out from the Snow Lake trailhead (doing the traverse in this direction has less elevation gain). Total trip was ~15 miles, ~5000' elevation gain, in just under 12 hours.
One of the top 100 hikes in Washington, on the east side of Olympic National Park. This is great as a one-night backpack or long day hike. A backpack is preferred to leave time to explore Royal Basin and the upper basin. This hike offers views of wild rivers, old-growth huge trees, waterfalls, alpine lakes and tarns, all surrounded by both snow-covered as well as dry, craggy mountains. You'll see deer, marmots and mosquitoes.
Bit of a Soggy Foggy day that perhaps did not live up to its weather forecast, but still an enjoyable outing.
Seattle branch double-summit hike to Skyscraper Mountain and Mount Fremont on July 16 with a group of 7 hikers.
Steep, interesting, rugged hike near the Bonneville Dam.
Flowers just getting started, some nice lupine, bistort, beargrass in the park meadows and paintbrush just starting to show. Mtn was in the clouds today, nice breeze kept mosquitoes away but they are hungry in the forest areas.
A one-day late-season climb via the Old Chute.
Successful One day climb Quien Sabe glacier/ Sahale Peak. Returning via Cascade pass.