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Rik, releasing his father's ashes on the summit of Rainier, July 2004

osatrik

Male, 62 years old

Cougar Mountain - Bellevue, Washington, United States

Power = 54 (Vote Weight = 69.3%)

Occupation: Retired - ex-Boeing - Marketing & Business Strategy

Website: http://www.osat.org

A Few Words: Started climbing as a teenager in Oregon. Career took me to the midwest for 11 years in the 70s and 80s, but when I moved my family back to the Northwest, I got my daughters into climbing a lot. Actually we started a highpoint quest in 1984 when we were still in Chicago, and by the time they graduated from high school in the early 1990s, we had been to over 40 state highpoints. I've now visited 49. I decided long ago that I was not going to attempt Denali, having spent 40 hours at the same elevation as its summit (20,320) in 1997 with 5 people in a 3-man tent surviving a wind storm. I worked with Jimmy Hinkhouse in Boeing Marketing from 1988 to 1994, and thus was involved with him in the beginnings of OSAT - One Step At a Time. OSAT is still the source of most of my climbing companionship. THANKS TO MY WIFE, HOLLY, FOR LETTING ME PURSUE MY PASSION! Now that I've retired, I hoped to get in more climbing, but a lot of other agendas have come along! Keep climbing mountains, and don't slip!

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Mountains & Rocks (120)
Eagle Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Panorama Point (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Sunflower (U.S. State Highpoints) Backbone Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Taum Sauk Mountain Mauna Kea (Big Island Peaks) Timms Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) Hoosier Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Rainier Mount Mansfield (Green Mountains (Vermont)) Kings Peak (High Uintas Wilderness) Katahdin (Katahdin Group) Borah Peak (Idaho County Highpoints) Sassafras Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Elbert (Colorado 14ers) Black Mountain (KY) (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Davis (U.S. State Highpoints) Campbell Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Marcy (Adirondacks) Jerimoth Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Arvon (Huron Mountains) Mount Hood Wheeler Peak (NM) Clingmans Dome (Southern Sixers) Hawkeye Point (U.S. State Highpoints) Boundary Peak (Nevada) (Nevada County Highpoints) Driskill Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Granite Peak (Beartooth Range) Harney Peak (U.S. State Highpoints) Cheaha Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Woodall Mountain (U.S. State Highpoints) Guadalupe Peak (Guadalupe Mountains National Park) Humphreys Peak (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Washington (Presidential Range) Spruce Knob (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Greylock (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Magazine-Signal Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) White Butte (U.S. State Highpoints) Charles Mound (U.S. State Highpoints) Britton Hill (U.S. State Highpoints) High Point (New Jersey) (Kittatinny Mountains) Brasstown Bald (U.S. State Highpoints) Black Mesa (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Whitney (California County Highpoints) Mount Rogers (U.S. State Highpoints) Gannett Peak (U.S. State Highpoints) Rib Mountain Ebright Azimuth (U.S. State Highpoints) Mount Frissell (Southwest Shoulder) (U.S. State Highpoints) Cougar Mountain (Issaquah Alps) McClellan Butte Mount Si (Mount Si Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA)) White Chuck Mountain (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Agassiz Peak (San Francisco Volcanic Field) Gothic Peak (Mountain Loop Highway) Mount Forgotten (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Old Snowy-Ives Peak (Goat Rocks (WA)) Unicorn Peak (Tatoosh Range) North Sister (Cascade Volcanoes) Point 6878 (NOT Hinkhouse Peak)	Mount Thomson Hinkhouse Peak Mount Garibaldi Mount Pilchuck (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Shuksan Denny Mountain Bandera Mountain (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) Glacier Peak (Cascade Volcanoes) Little Tahoma (Washington Top 100) Eagle Peak (Tatoosh Range) Chutla Peak (Tatoosh Range) Wahpenayo Peak (Tatoosh Range) Lane Peak (Tatoosh Range) Denman Peak (Tatoosh Range) Plummer Peak (Tatoosh Range) Pinnacle Peak (Tatoosh Range) Whitehorse Mountain (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Pugh (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Sloan Peak (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Adams (Cascade Volcanoes) Silver Peak (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Baring (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Saint Helens (Cascade Volcanoes) Del Campo Peak (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) Mount Dickerman (Mountain Loop Highway) The Tooth Mount Watson Stawamus Chief Mount Stuart (Washington Top 100) The Castle (Tatoosh Range) Mount Teneriffe (Mount Si Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA)) Guye Peak (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) Snoqualmie Mountain (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) Kendall Peak (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) North Twin Sister (Twin Sisters Range) Red Mountain, (Snoqualmie) (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) Granite Mountain (Snoqualmie) (Alpine Lakes Wilderness) Mount Persis Mount Shasta (California County Highpoints) Mount Bachelor (Cascade Volcanoes) Half Dome (Yosemite National Park) Kilimanjaro Broken Top (Cascade Volcanoes) Middle Sister (Cascade Volcanoes) Black Butte (Oregon) (Cascade Volcanoes) Mt. Ellinor (Olympic Range (WA)) Mailbox Peak Cotopaxi (Cordillera Oriental (Ecuador)) Illiniza Sur (Iliniza Sur) (Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador)) Guagua/Rucu Pichincha (Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador)) South Early Winters Spire (Liberty Bell Group) Three Fingers (Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks) The Black Tusk Aconcagua (Aconcagua Group) Castle Peak (Colorado 14ers) Gilbert Peak (Goat Rocks (WA)) Mount Mitchell Mount Baker (Cascade Volcanoes) Dragontail Peak (Enchantments) Little Annapurna (Enchantments)
Routes (48)
Old Si Trail (Mount Si) Henry's Fork via Anderson Pass (Kings Peak) Queen Mine Route (Boundary Peak (Nevada)) From Rt. 219 (Backbone Mountain) Hell Brook Trail (Mount Mansfield) Cathedral Ridge (Katahdin) Cheshire Harbor Trail (Mount Greylock) Steamboat Prow (Mount Rainier) North Gulley (McClellan Butte) Leuthold Coulior (Mount Hood) Bright Angel Trail (Grand Canyon National Park) Northwest Route (White Chuck Mountain) South Ridge (Ingalls Peaks) Sulphide Glacier (Mount Shuksan) Frostbite Ridge (Glacier Peak) Fryingpan/Whitman Glaciers (Little Tahoma) South Side (Hogsback) (Mount Hood) Corkscrew (Sloan Peak) Kautz Glacier (Mount Rainier) Mazama Glacier (Mount Adams) Backside trail (Stawamus Chief) Boulder Glacier / Cleaver (Mount Baker) The Cables (Half Dome) Marangu Route (Kilimanjaro)	North Ridge via Renfrew Glacier (Middle Sister) Southwest Ridge (Mount Teneriffe) Normal Route (Illiniza Sur (Iliniza Sur)) Southeast Ridge (Gothic Peak) Eagle Peak Trail (Chutla Peak) South Face (Lane Peak) West Ridge (Wahpenayo Peak) Tatoosh Traverse (Pinnacle Peak) Southeast Face (The Castle) West Ridge (North Twin Sister) South Face (The Tooth) South Arete (South Early Winters Spire) Snow Lake (Unicorn Peak) Normal Route (Cotopaxi) La Rampa Route (Direct) (Illiniza Sur (Iliniza Sur)) Polish Traverse (Aconcagua) North Face Couloir (Castle Peak) South Face via East Ridge (Standard) (Granite Peak) Easton Glacier (Mount Baker) West Route (Gilbert Peak) Emmons-Winthrop Glacier (Mount Rainier) East Ridge (Dragontail Peak) Disappointment Cleaver (Mount Rainier) Ingraham Glacier Direct (Mount Rainier)




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