Elsie

48 trips 498 miles logged 18 nights out in 2013 Subscribe to updates

November 24, 2013 7 miles 5,250 feet gained

Mt Hood, South Side

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First summit. Awesome weather. Great conditions. Whoop!

November 10, 2013 10 miles 3,000 feet gained

Gumjuwac Saddle to Lookout Mtn

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Lookout Mtn via Gumjuwac Saddle. Very nice trail and fantastic views all day. Very surprised by lack of snow, considering Hood has been dumped on this past week. Despite clouds and some haze, had view of peaks all around, from Rainier to Bachelor.

October 28, 2013 6.5 miles 2,000 feet gained

Pechuck Lookout & Rooster Rock

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Took a stroll out in the sun and air with some girlfriends. Parked at Rooster Rock and made our way up to Pechuck Lookout. Pechuck is super cute and interesting, if bit on the small side and lacking mountain views. Nice trail, bonus that we were the only ones out there. After Pechuck we went back towards the first junction and took a side trip to Rooster Roc...

September 8, 2013 22 miles 5,500 feet gained

Mt Whittier

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Set out early with Bosterson and a girlfriend of mine to make the 22mi loop from Coldwater Lake and around Whittier and back along the south Coldwater trail. Lovely day, abundance of happy things, including hundreds of newly hatched frogs, herd of elk, goats, ladybug swarms, ripe huckleberries, basking snakes, peaks all around, plenty of sun and breeze, and ...

August 18 to August 19, 2013 13 miles 4,250 feet gained 1 night

Sunrise Camp and Bird Creek Meadows

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Went up Adams from Bird Lake to Sunrise Camp with a gaggle of girlfriends. Beautiful day. Mostly a bunch of rock and scree scrambling, but a few remaining snowfields were a welcome sight for traversing. In the distance, could see a huge fire to the east of Hood/Warm Springs area. Saw plenty of goats, active booming rockfall, and two climbers descending throu...

July 29, 2013 16 miles 4,000 feet gained

Pinnacle Ridge to Cairn Basin & Elk Cove

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After Mississippi Head on Sunday, I drove out to the north side of Hood and made camp at the Elk Cove Trailhead. Super nice campsite with easy stream access. However, the next morning as I set out at 8am on foot up the road to the Pinnacle Ridge TH, I quickly realized a camp up there would have had a stellar view of Hood bathed in sunset and sunrise glow dir...

July 28, 2013 11 miles 3,750 feet gained

Mississippi Head

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Set out early Sunday morning with some girlfriends for Mississippi Head on Hood. Started at Timberline at 7am and made our way to Paradise Park. There is a route up the mountain from the Paradise Park meadows, as well as from Split Rock - we went up from Split Rock. We followed a scree path followed by some snow-traversing up to the Head, at about 7500'. Too...

July 14 to July 15, 2013 24 miles 4,500 feet gained 1 night

Cheat Creek - Trigangulation - Jefferson Park

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Started from Cheat Creek TH - trail through the forest had quite a bit of deadfall and route is overgrown, but you can't lose it...unless your daydreaming. Cheat Meadow is in full bloom with wildflowers - quite lovely! Definitely ate up some time there. Continuing up to Triangulation Peak with views of Jefferson, Sisters, and Hood, and possibly even Thielson...

June 24, 2013 15.5 miles 4,250 feet gained

Larch Mountain

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Nice trail for a rainy day....except no views. Took Mult Falls straight up to Larch, made a balloon loop through the Larch crater trail, reconnecting with the Mult spur trail and Larch Mtn trail back to the falls. In bloom were rhodies, beargrass, vanilla leaf, avalanche lillies (first this season for me!), penstamon, bunch berries, huckleberries, and surpri...

June 10, 2013 17 miles 6,250 feet gained

Devil's Peak & Salmon Butte

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DP: 8mi, 3200' gain (hiking time 3:15hrs) SB: 9mi, 3000' pain (yes, pain...my poor toes!) (hiking time 4:10hrs)

June 5, 2013 5 miles 2,250 feet gained

Kings Mtn Junior Loop

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I ventured up Kings Mtn Junior trail in the evening after work. Really quite a beautiful route, if a little sketchy - I was not expecting such an unmaintained trail when I set out. It follows a rough old jeep road that is grown over with ferns and flowers, complete with rockslides, constant blowdown, and washouts for your hiking pleasure. I managed to succes...

June 3, 2013 11 miles 3,500 feet gained

Saddle x 2

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Went out to Saddle Mountain to meet up with some friends, but wanted more of a workout....and since there aren't other mountains within reasonable driving distance (the hour drive from Kings was too far), I just did it twice. Pretty foggy early in the morning - couldn't see more than 100 yards away. But on the second run the fog and clouds had burned off and...

May 25 to May 27, 2013 16 miles 3,000 feet gained 2 nights

Siouxon Creek and Horshoe Ridge

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Set out for Siouxon Creek and Horseshoe Ridge this soggy Memorial Weekend. Quick report: Horseshoe still has some light snow and blowover on the north side of the ridge. The trail towards the top of the ridge is light in some places, but it just follows the ridge so it's pretty navigable. I had planned to to Huffman Peak as well, but opted not due to the two...

May 20, 2013 15 miles 6,000 feet gained

Double Dog... plus some

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Kinda not-so-creative hike, but I was already meeting friends mid-morning, so decided to have a pre-dawg Dog warm-up. Just took the typical scenic trail up and down x 2, plus escorted the last few of the group up to the top after I was already on my second run down. Flowers are still out all over the place! Poison oak everywhere. Beautiful, sunny day. 1st ru...

May 12 to May 13, 2013 7 miles 2,500 feet gained 1 night

Mt St Helen's Mother's Day Sog

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Hiked into what we knew was going to be a soggy Mother's Day. The mountain had record permit numbers on beautiful Saturday - 649 climbers!! The parking lot was a craziness of cars and costumes and parties when we arrived in the evening. It was so balmy all evening and night that the snow was still slushy when we set off at 4am. Wore microspikes in some parts...