Outside + Stuff

June 5, 2016 2.5 miles 2,000 feet gained

May 7, 2016 8 miles 3,750 feet gained

A bit of slushy snow at the top. No spikes needed, but trekking poles might help.

May 1, 2016 7.5 miles 4,500 feet gained

The road was closed so we had to hike 1.5 miles to get to the base of the mountain. And then it was 4,440 feet of bushwhacking and scrambling till we reached the summit. Amazing views, but definitely never going to do this hike again. It's a complete thrasher.

April 10, 2016 8 miles 2,500 feet gained

We heard this is a best kept secret, mostly because of all the bushwhacking and wayfinding that needs to happen. But when we got up there, it seems like it's become a bit more popular. We downloaded a GPS track, and even with that, we had to do a bit of bushwhacking. But otherwise it was a lot of fun making the way up there! As a bonus, there is a kayak and ...

March 26 to March 27, 2016 8 miles 1,000 feet gained 1 night

Not wanting to spend the night in snow, we headed out to Ancient Lakes for the first time. The hike in is incedibily easy. We set up camp away from everyone else, made our way up the waterfall, and then continued to scramble up some of the steep mesa walls. Beautiful views looking back down. Just make sure you pack in your water. The lakes are full of chemic...

March 12, 2016 13 miles 3,750 feet gained

Our final hike in El Chalten. This viewpoint was one of the best to be had. And we wished we had done this a bit earlier in the trip as our feet were rather murdered at this point. We even saw a Guanaco on our way up.

March 11, 2016 4 miles 500 feet gained

With a little time to spare in the day, we decided to hike up to the Mirador de los Condores to get a better view of El Chalten. This is an easy hike and it's one that a lot of visitors do when they reach the ranger station at El Chalten.

March 11, 2016 5 miles 1,500 feet gained

What started out as a simple hike to see a beautiful waterfall turned into a route finding scramble to get an amazing look at Monte Fitz Roy. Turns out, we scrambled up the backside and we were overlooking the Mirador for Fitz Roy. So we had an even better view than the people below us.

March 10, 2016 5 miles 500 feet gained

Day five, time to pack out and head back to El Chalten. Of course the weather has kicked back up and we spend most of the time hiking in the wind and rain. Thankfully the sky clears by the time we get back to town so we can have a tasty beer in the sunshine.

March 9 to March 10, 2016 10 miles 3,750 feet gained 1 night

Day four, we decide to take a boot path up to Loma de las Pizarras and see what kind of trouble we could get into. We end up making the scramble, but only after much convincing due to the flaky razor thin rocks being a bit sketchy.

March 8 to March 9, 2016 6 miles 1,750 feet gained 1 night

Day three, we took this day to go view Mirador Maestri (Cerro Torre) and then some scrambling up the mountain side to see if we could get a better look. Did not happen. So we did some more hiking around the area before calling it a day and retired back at camp Agostini

March 7 to March 8, 2016 10 miles 3,500 feet gained 1 night

Day two of our backpacking trip saw us attempt a summit on Cerro Madsen, and then a transfer to Camp Agostini. <a href"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bvXq4fJ1Y">Video of Cerro Madsen Attempt</a> Video of Agositni, coming soon.

March 6 to March 7, 2016 9 miles 2,750 feet gained 1 night

First day of a five day trip in Patagonia Argentina. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO0GyPMJAVg">Hike to Poincenot</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pkx2b5ndA">Hike up to Laguna de los Tres</a>

February 20, 2016 8.5 miles 2,750 feet gained

Most of the summits were under heavy avalanche warnings, so we made our way up to the popular Lake Serene and Bridal Veil Falls. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGH74F26tfA">Video from the hike</a>

February 14, 2016 7 miles 1,500 feet gained

We spent the weekend on Lummi Island and decided to check out the main trail on the island in Bakers Preserve. Video from the hike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9IZO17pys

February 6, 2016 8.5 miles 2,750 feet gained

Access roads were all snowed in so we plowed straight up from the exit on I90. Lots of route finding. Here is the video from the trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlUcWldf6A

January 22, 2016 6 miles 1,000 feet gained

Our first snowshoe of the season. Source lake was a bit too easy so we tried to go over the ridge and down to Snow Lake, but we had to turn around due to the conditions. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJ-72yXk8k

January 3, 2016 8.5 miles 3,750 feet gained

Following a massive snowfall, we went to check out the summit on Teneriffe. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1He5vr5WOss

January 1, 2016 10 miles 1,250 feet gained

Early morning hike on New Years day. Full video of hike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zWX5cBA77k