Trying to get caught up on the blog so I’m writing up some older trips this week. This trip is from September. Desiring somewhere new to go, I decided on Skyscraper Mountain near Mt Rainier. Skyscraper is a very easy to do scramble just off the Wonderland trail near Sunrise with amazing views all around. …
This was my rather weak attempt at capturing some star trails. I drove up to Tipsoo Lake and spent a couple hours there waiting for darkness and shooting the stars. I’ve learned that I’m going to need to perfect the infinite focus thing on my camera if I want to be successfull at this.
A long time dream of mine has been to hike the entire Wonderland Trail around Mt Rainier. Being a working guy with a family, it would be hard if next to impossible for me to take a large enough chunk of time to do the whole trail in one go. I don’t have the luxury …
WARNING! Gratuitous wildflower pictures contained in this post! This was a pretty tough 17 mile day-hike near *The Mountain. In years past it wouldn’t have been so difficult but this year I have been very out of shape. This trip starts at Mowich Lake at around the 4900 foot level, climbs up to the 6400 foot level at …
This year, I won permits to the Enchantments. I entered 4 lottery tickets and won 2 sets of permits. One set of Snow Lakes zone permits and a one set of core permits. Unfortunately at the time I applied, I had forgotten that I would be in California at the Muir Trail Ranch during the …
This was an overnight trip my club sponsored to the Copper Creek Hut, a part of the Mt Tahoma Trails system near Mt Rainier. Conditions were great on the hike in, but the weather deteriorated overnight and the hike out was entirely in the rain. Probably a better option is to ski this trail, but …
July 23-25 2011 On the weekend that I was supposed to hike the Chinook Pass to White Pass portion of the Pacific Crest Trail, I instead took advantage of space on a fellow Peninsula Wilderness Club member’s Enchantments permit. This year the snow has been excruciatingly slow to melt off and I figured it would …
I headed out to Ingalls Creek with Cheryl and her daughter Stephanie on this first warm day of the year. This has been the year of the seemingly never ending winter and this was a nice hike on a beautiful day. I’ve never seen as much trilium as I did on this hike. We saw …
On September 4th 2010 I hosted a day hike to Tuck and Robin lakes with the Peninsula Wilderness Club and the Kitsap Outdoors Meetup group. Originally about 10 people were going to attend but due to the difficulty of the hike and potentially inclement weather, only 4 of us ended up going. The weather actually …
Last weekend I went on my first Kevin and Maria sponsored backpack with the Peninsula Wilderness Club. We headed up the West Cady Ridge trail in the Central Cascades off of Hwy 2 near Skykomish. I had a lot of fun on this trip and got to meet some new friends. The group consisted of …
Spent the weekend camping with Dawn and Hayden in the Icicle River area near Leavenworth.
For my first hike of the year, I headed out with a few members of the Kitsap Climbers Group (Cheryl, Robbin and Dave) and we snowshoed up to Panorama Point from Paradise at Mount Rainier. The snow was firm in most places and not too icy. I tried going up in my microspikes but after …
Took a hike up to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Burroughs on the Burroughs Mountain Trail at Sunrise (the place not the time) on Mount Rainier with the Peninsula Wilderness Club. Beautiful day!
On an invite by the Kitsap Climbers, me and 4 other brave souls headed out to climb Mailbox Peak in the Snoqualmie I-90 corridor near Seattle. The trail to the top is very steep and gains 4000′ elevation in 2.5 miles. Upon reaching the top, on a clear day you are rewarded with views of …
Adventure number 3 on my trifecta of fun weekend. Yesterday the coast, today the Mountain. On the spur of the moment we decided to head up to Mount Rainier to do some sledding. Well OK , we really came up to see the new hotel but found out it was closed for the season when …