A Personal Blog
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Avoiding Crystal Mountain Crowds on Little Ranger Peak
Why do people hike in the winter? Is it because it’s winter and it’s beautiful with the snow and crisp air. Or do folks get out in it because it’s winter and that’s just how it is and staying indoors for the entire weekend is way worse than going out in the cold, frozen forest?…
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Taking the High Road (forest road 7320) to Serpentine Hill and Iron Mountain
There was some confusion because Mark thought a few of us hadn’t taken the right turns to get to the Serpentine Hill trailhead. Justifiably, there were a few confusing turns and it would’ve been easy to get lost. I had come up the night before the try out my new car camping set up so…
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Vantage Outing
There had been some discussion of hiking at Vantage this weekend on the Discord channel and I thought an Autumn day at the Frenchman Coulee might be a good time. The day to go was originally Saturday, then it shifted to Sunday. I had wanted another weekend doing the Mt Teneriffe to Mt Si traverse…
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Caught off guard on Silver Peak (Snoqualmie)
This is my second Meetup hike again in the last couple of weeks. Everyone on The Mountaineers and Discord seem to have received the memo that the weather was going to be too inclement to go out. But not Jeremy, he’s unapologetically hosting hikes and I appreciate him for that! I haven’t slept well the…
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A Little Redemption on the Mt. Tenerife to Mt. Si Traverse
October 19th 2024 I’ve been thinking about the following quote and even stickers of it made because I liked it so much. What you think is what you become. What you feel is what you attract. What you imagine is what you create. This is a great quote, because it captures the cascading nature of…
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I Cannot Get Enough of Lake Ingalls
It’s Larch Madness, the Larch March, and I’m up here for the third time since September. This time with my good friends; Sophie, Joey and Lawrence. Sophie and Larence made a last minute rendezvous with Joey and I at the North Bend Safeway. The parking lot was full at 10:30am and we parked about 3/4…
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A Fun Scramble Up Libery Bell
September 28 2024 I kept telling myself that I’m bad at navigation. But I’m really not that bad at it. I just repeatedly haven’t been studying the beta well enough. I told this to myself as Miles and I set up a belay at what we thought would be the start of the Liberty Bell…
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Finding Solace on South Ingalls
[9/19/2024] Nighttime Escape to Esmeralda Trailhead The night before I had dreamt that I was at the house I used to live in the University District. There happened to be a huge river bed or glacial silt area in the backyard. It was filled with cascading granite and fallen trees. A young man, who was…
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Climbing ‘Orbit’ at Snow Creek with a Snow Lake Finale
September 14th I’ve slept at the Snow Lake trailhead before, and I should’ve remembered I’d be kept all night by the constant sound of car doors slamming. Nonetheless, the day started around 6am, with some green tea from my favorite tea shop in Seattle, the Vital Tea leaf (much might I say than instant coffee). …
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Climbing The Brothers on the Olympic Peninsula
9/7/2024 Climbing to The Brothers basecamp Past Lena Lake, we walked by the little waterfall cave. We’d later find ourselves swimming in this same cave as we descended the mountain the next day. My cousin and I were heading out this weekend to climb a mountain he had always noticed from his place in Ballard.…