Raven Ridge – 8,500+ft Eric and Katie November 6, 2016 We drove out east Saturday evening in the pouring rain and slept at the Libby Creek trailhead. Matthew and I had visited this area in February, but the road to the trailhead wasn’t plowed and we’d had to hike in… Continue reading
Lake Mountain – 8,371ft Eric and David October 29-30, 2016 We discovered that it’s essentially winter above 5,000ft in the Cascades, with many feet of snow, cornice-topped ridges, and cold. We still somehow managed to get up one of the Washington Hundred Highest Mountains. On Friday night we drove up… Continue reading
Red Mountain – 5,890 ft Eric Gilbertson October 25, 2016 I shifted work around to get the afternoon off, and drove out of town at 2pm. I was hiking north on the PCT by 3pm. It was drizzling, but the forecast was for drying out later in the evening. After… Continue reading
Snoqualmie Mountain – 6,278 ft Eric Gilbertson October 23, 2016 I left Seattle at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoon under sunny skies, and was out hiking by 2:45pm from the Alpental parking lot. The trail up snoqualmie mountain is unofficial, so it’s unmarked and unmaintained, but I found it pretty easily… Continue reading
Mount Adams – 12,276 ft Second tallest mountain in Washington Eric and Katie October 22, 2016 We left Seattle mid day on Friday for the long drive south to Mount Adams, and after a small wrong turn eventually reached the trailhead around 8pm. The snow started a half mile before… Continue reading
Windy Peak – 8,333ft Eric and Katie October 16, 2016 We found one of the few dry spots in western Washington on Sunday, up in the northeastern cascades at Windy Peak. This is the only one of the Washington 100 highest mountains with a trail up it, which made it… Continue reading
Abernathy Peak Eric and Katie October 9, 2016 It was supposed to rain 3 inches in the mountains Saturday, but be dry Sunday, so we drove up Saturday afternoon through the north cascasdes, past the towns of Winthrop and Twisp and car camped at the scatter creek trailhead. Sunday morning… Continue reading
Oct 1, 2016 Eric and Katie We planted our bikes in Rockport, then drove up Highway 20 to the border of North Cascades National Park and put our packrafts in the Skagit River. It was a fun class I-II paddle down 16 miles back to Rockport, with a few heavy… Continue reading
Black Peak (8,970ft) Eric Gilbertson September 24, 2016 I waited a bit too long to find a hiking partner for Saturday, so ended up going out solo. Black peak looked like a good hundred-highest mountain to solo, given that it was mostly on trails and there would probably be other… Continue reading
Emerald Peak (8,422ft) and Pinnacle Mountain (8,400ft) Eric and Katie Sept 20-22, 2016 We hiked in the Pyramid Mountain trail for 12.5 miles and set up camp at the base of Cardinal Mountain. It was still officially summer, but it started snowing in the evening and we woke up to… Continue reading