Winter Hard Mox Attempt Jan 14-16, 2023 Eric and Nick Saturday – Double carry zodiac to frontage road, drag to Ross Lake, motor to near little beaver, bushwhack around ice/cliffs, packraft across river, camp at little beaver Sunday – skin to Perry Creek, bail at 2200ft, ski back to little… Continue reading
Mont Bengoué (3,510ft/1070m), highpoint of Gabon Dec 29, 2022 Eric and Serge Dec 26 fly to Libreville Dec 27 get Cameroon visa, drive to Ovan Dec 28 drive to Boca Boca, secure permission from chief Dec 29 climb Bengoué, drive to Ovan Dec 30 drive to Libreville Dec 31 fly… Continue reading
Mount Cameroon (13,255ft/4040m), highest mountain in Cameroon Dec 24-25, 2022 Eric and Serge Serge and I had just finished climbing Chappal Waddi, the Nigeria highpint, from the Cameroon side. Our next and final objective in Cameroon would be Mt Cameroon, the highest peak in the country. I had been eyeing… Continue reading
Chappal Waddi (7,936ft/2419m), Highpoint of Nigeria Dec 22, 2022 Eric and Serge Serge and were in Cameroon climbing country highpoints and had just finished climbing the highpoint of Central African Republic on the border near Ngaoui village. Next on the agenda was Chappal Waddi, the Nigeria highpoint. Chappal Waddi… Continue reading
Mont Ngaoui (4,626ft/1410m) Highest peak in Central African Republic Dec 20, 2022 Eric and Serge Serge and I had been waiting in N’djamena, Chad for the past week for final authorization to climb some peaks there. By Thursday evening we were starting to lose hope. We needed six signatures on… Continue reading
Brown Mtn (7,340ft) and Mt McLoughlin Attempt (to 8,200ft) Dec 3-4, 2022 Eric and Matthew We wanted to meet up to do a weekend trip to test out some new gear, but unfortunately flying anywhere wasn’t an option this time. Matthew lives in San Jose, CA and I’m in Seattle,… Continue reading
Crossover Butte (4,506ft), Dandy Mtn (4,360ft), Radioactive Peak (4,529ft) Nov 27, 2022 The lower elevations of the cascades had finally gotten enough snow that I could justify taking the snowmobile out for a ride. My goal was to test that everything was in working order before going on bigger trips… Continue reading
Mt Defiance (5,584ft) Nov 19, 2022 Eric and Lily Lily hadn’t been on a hike in a while so we drove out to exit 42 and started up from the lower trailhead Saturday morning. The upper lot was overflowing so I’m glad we didn’t park there. We took the old… Continue reading
Carolinas Peakbagging – Crowders Mtn, The Pinnacle, Gamble Hill, Browns Mtn, Joes Mtn, Kings Mountain Nov 12, 2022 ~20 miles, 7am – 2pm I was in Charlotte for a wedding over the long weekend and had a brief window of free time saturday morning to squeeze in some peakbagging. I… Continue reading
Mt Catherine, Olallie Mtn, Mt Hyak, Ski Acres Hill Nov 6, 2022, 8am – 5pm 16 miles With weather pretty bad most locations and one free day I decided to test out new winter gear at one of the closest locations where the precipitation would be snow. I had some… Continue reading