Whatcom Peak – 7574′ – North Ridge Class 4August 2022 With grand plans to meet up with Josh and Shiona for a northern pickets blowout, I briskly walked up the Hannegan Pass trail leaving the trailhead at about 3pm on Saturday the 6th. After an hour and a half I walked over Hennegan Pass leaving […]
corteo peak – 8080′ – SW ridge class 3 october 2021 My friend AJ and his girlfriend joined me for a beautiful fall hike and scramble up Cortero Peak via its SW ridge. We started at the Rainy Pass trailhead and hiked the busy trail to Maple Pass. From the pass, we descended west off […]
Southern Pickets Traverse – Class 5.9 – August 2019East McMillan Spire – 7992′West McMillan Spire – 8020′Inspiration Peak – 7880′Pyramid Peak – 8000′Mount Degenhardt – 8020 My friend from Israel was back in WA for some alpine trips in the North Cascades in the summer of 2019, and one of the main objectives he was […]
Mount Ballard – 8320′ – East Face Class 4May 2019 On a last minute whim, I took a flight back to Seattle for the weekend again after working the last week in Tucson. I called up Josh and asked if he wanted to do Ballard and he agreed to so I bought the flights right […]
Sherman Peak – 10165′ – Easton Glacier Class 2May 2019 Having finished the Bulgers last year, and with just 4 more PX400 peaks to climb on the WA top 100 (Sherman, Castle, Lib Cap, and Ballard), I knew my time this summer would be a little more limited due to two trips to Papua New […]
Mazama Dome – 5843′ – South Slopes – SkiFebruary 2019 With Jane visiting from New Zealand and the weather fantastic, I thought a ski trip up Mazama would be great. Unfortunately Jane didn’t have skis so she had to borrow my snowshoes but we stayed together heading up Mazama Dome from the upper Mount Baker […]
Custer Ridge – 8630′ – South Ridge Class 3 / Easy Mox – 8407′ – SE Face Class 5.6August 2018 Who: Josh Journey and I What: Easy Mox via the SE face from Col of the Wild (Two technical pitches; Class 5.5) When: August 27-28th for myself; August 26-29th for Josh Bulger #97 Easy Mox turned out to […]
Mount logan – 9087′ – Fremont Route Class 3july 2018 After day hiking Chiwawa Mountain I drove from Coles Corner to Chelan and got on the fast boat Wednesday morning from Fields Point, arrived in Stehekin at 11am, then took the shuttle bus to High Bridge. I started walking at 12:30pm towards the Park Creek Trailhead. […]
Tower mountain – 8444′ / Golden Horn – 8336′June 2018 Josh and I had big plans to head up the N Cascades Highway to climb Tower and Golden Horn in a day, then climb Sinister and Gunsight Peaks over the next 3-4 days, however with the freak, unpredictable bad weather that came in Sunday night, […]
Azurite Peak – 8400′ – south route class 3June 2018 NWH user “neek” (Nicolas) and I met up in Everett in the afternoon Monday for an attempt on both Azurite and Ballard in what we originally planned for a two day excursion. Although this isn’t exactly what we ended up doing we still had a […]