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Nap Time on the Kautz Glacier
Last weekend we attempted to climb the Kautz Glacier on Mount Rainier in a single-day push. We had good maps uploaded to GAIA GPS and a...
Jul 19, 20174 min read
May: Long Weekend #1
The title 'long weekend' has nothing to do with the number of days I spent enjoying my time off from working. It's simply a descriptor of...
May 8, 20174 min read
Skiing Helens in Photos
We left Marble Mountain Snow Park around 8:15am and were, thankfully, able to step into our bindings right out of the parking lot. We saw...
Dec 16, 20162 min read
Glacier Peak: Desperate for Sweet Turns
After a grueling drive out of Portland, we finally rolled into the TH at 830pm on Friday night. The winding road leading out of...
Jul 8, 20168 min read
Mount Rainier: In a Day
When the alarm went off at 9:45pm, my first instinct was to throw my phone out the open truck window. It was too early, too late, too ___...
Jul 5, 20167 min read
Mount Hood: North to South
Andy and I have been talking about heading up Cooper Spur for months now. With the weird weather we’ve had in the PNW this year, getting...
Jun 11, 20164 min read
Hood in April
We got the chance to climb Mt Hood again a couple of weeks ago- this time with a friend who’d never been up there. It was an incredible...
Apr 16, 20161 min read
First Time UP The Old Chute
Compared with our climb at the end of March, this trip up Mount Hood was a different beast altogether. The old chute has formed...
Mar 12, 20162 min read
11/7/15: Mt Bailey
This was another one of those, “man alive, I kind of wish it had been harder” (that’s what she said) trips. Bailey was a beautiful, fun...
Nov 12, 20153 min read
Part 2: Broken Top 7/12/2015
Over the last year of this project, we’ve both grown in a number of ways, our mountaineering skill level being a massive factor in that...
Jul 27, 20154 min read