Category: Trip Reports

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…

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…

Seattle to Ranger Creek Airport 8/30/2024 We left Seattle at 3pm, having made up our minds about which entrance we’d start the Northern Loop. We contemplated starting from the Carbon River Ranger Station since there would be more dispersed camping. However, the road from the ranger station to the nearest front country campsite, Ipsut, was…

Hiking into Observation Rock 8/17/2024 It’s always interesting doing alpine starts because you get glimpses of dreams you usually wouldn’t remember. This morning, I had a couple innocuous dreams; one in which I was skiing with a friend and kept catching glimpses of my girlfriend through the trees. And another, where my uncle and I…

The goal today was to explore crevasses on the Nisqually glacier and practice our ice climbing technique. Aleesha and Lucas asked that we group up at the Longmire Ranger Station at 7am. No Bueno. I picked Miles up from his place at 4:35am this morning. Arriving at the Mt. Rainier Park Entrance at 6:35am. There…

Getting Ready for the Wonderland Trail July 11 2024 We’d need to leave early tomorrow since was going to be a rush to beat the morning traffic up to Longmire on Mt. Rainier. We also wanted to carbo-load with some Cubanos at Un Buen for dinner tonight. Since they stopped serving around 8pm, we had…