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September 29 to September 30, 2012 14 miles 3,500 feet gained 1 night
First time to Jeff Park. It only took 5 years.. The lakes were cool and trout filled (4 small ones - 3 eastern brook, 1 rainbow), but also people filled. Detoured on Sunday to around the base of Jefferson and scrambled up a bit following some flagging on the North Slope. Also scrambled around Park Ridge. full moon was a nice touch. first time solo camping, w...
September 27 to September 30, 2012 37.5 miles 8,500 feet gained 3 nights
-=Second half of our British Columbia trip=- *caveat - long winded* After hiking 6.7miles out from Floe Lake at the Southern Terminus of the Kootenay Nat'l Park Rockwall Trail we went into Radium Hot Springs and Invermere for an afternoon of errands, hot springs, authentic German food, and pre-packing for the next leg of our trip. We contemplated staying at ...
September 1 to September 4, 2012 35 miles 6,500 feet gained 3 nights
All summer Bucket and I shared vague talk of going to the Sawtooths or White Cloud mountains of Idaho as our 'big backpacking trip' of the summer. 4 days before our departure date I stumbled onto the summitpost page for the Kootenay Rockwall Trail. I showed Bucket a picture and she said it looked great.. the pressure was now on to figure out a smorgasbord of...
August 25 to August 27, 2012 7 miles 3,500 feet gained 2 nights
Special trip for me. I grew up fishing with my dad in the midwest, mostly on Lake Erie. But occasionally doing other things. It wasn't until I was 22 and met my one day wife that I actually got into backpacking. That said my cousin showed an interest in fishing pretty early on and joined my dad and I on a lot of trips. Over the years my interest in fishing w...
August 11 to August 12, 2012 11.5 miles 4,750 feet gained 1 night
cross posted from cascadeclimbers.com First saw this climb in 2008 before I'd done anything more than stuff on the AT or a few Oregon scrambles. Needless to say it stood in my mind as a beacon of climbing aspiration. Having done it I'm sure it was well within my abilities a while ago but it still feels spectacular to accomplish something I'd kind of dreamt a...
July 22 to July 23, 2012 19.5 miles 10,000 feet gained 1 night
Woot Woot!
July 15, 2012 12 miles 6,750 feet gained
Finally managed to Ski the SW Chutes. Next time will go earlier in the year. Thousands of feet of vert on nice corn snow. Pics later.
June 29, 2012 10 miles 5,000 feet gained
meh weather got us again. nice down low generally. then cloudy midway. at lunch counter we were in fog at times but very still..then clear and roasting with solar radiation. higher up we entered the cloud deck. that evening it opened up for a short spell but we'd already turned tail about at pikers peak. there was a fresh 4-6inches of snow (end of June!!!) b...
June 17, 2012 12 miles 5,000 feet gained
xposted from cc.com Date: 6/17/2012 Trip Report: figured I'd throw my hat in the TR contest: my usual suspects had other plans this weekend. So I ended up wrangling a plan with two folks via cc.com that I hadn't met before. One local and the other on an extended rock/snow/ski/paddling adventure of cali/bc/or/wa/ and now AK before school in the fall. Based on...
May 20 to May 21, 2012 11 miles 4,500 feet gained 1 night
turned back shy on account of poor weather. but a good first ski tour, well, other than walking 2 miles+ with skis on my pack and ski boots on my feet. that blew. odd cause a year earlier it would have been a car2car on skis trip.. oh well..will be interesting with the huge pole creek burn to do in the future (on snow or otherwise).
May 7, 2012 5.5 miles 1,750 feet gained
April 22, 2012 2 miles 1,000 feet gained
hot and crowded. Bucket's first time to smith rocks tho. Her and my dad uber enjoyed the cliff'y`ness of the environ.
April 21, 2012 3.5 miles 1,500 feet gained
bucket and I did this quickie snowshoe with my pops. started midday so snow was shot and goopy, but wonderful views up top. neat perspective on the area. definitely a short bang-for-the-buck touron level adventure. maybe good for an easy winter overnighter/practice ice axe place.
April 15, 2012 9 miles 7,500 feet gained
Finally had some success on Hood. Best sunrise I've seen in a long while.
April 14, 2012 5.5 miles 4,750 feet gained
Went over to iLL saddle but a solo climber came over just as we got there, said he heard and saw a huge crack on the snow.. twas enough to change our plans for going that way. Went up and hung out at the hogsback as a cloud-cap had parked itself on the summit by and large. Never really seemed to clear while we were up there so we headed down.
February 4 to February 5, 2012 8 miles 2,500 feet gained 1 night
Left town around 9am. Started hiking at 11:30am Snowshoes not needed first mile maybe, but, eventually flotation is desired. Many dead trees had blown down during the middle stretch. They likely came down the day before as there was little snow melt around them and no old or new snow atop them, including bits of debris from the break. They all had fallen in ...
January 21 to January 22, 2012 18 miles 3,250 feet gained 1 night
Uber athlete long distance trail acquaintance from AT07/the internets graciously offered to 'show us the mountains' around Reno after Bucket and I scored some cheap tickets ($70rt) from PDX-RNO. Fortunately we didn't need snowshoes the whole way, but it was definitely a strenuous hike at 9miles one way. Snow conditions were good though, powdery as opposed to...
January 8, 2012 6 miles 5,250 feet gained
Southside up Hood with some new folk. I accidentally drove to Sandy the night before at 3am when there was a communication snafu about our departure time. That kind of sucked, I had to drive back home and then do the same thing the NEXT night.. oh joy! Anyways this was a great day up. Way later than normal, think I was on the summit sometime around 10:30am? ...
