News of Pacific Northwest (WA, OR)

Even been five miles from civilization up to your waist in Devils Club and Vine Maple with nats, horse flys
and no see ums humming around you and sucking the last ounce of your energy and blood from your bruised and battered body? Been too tired to swat the critters and unable to collapse with your pack because the brush is too thick to let you fall down in place? If these memories bring tears ...

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Hey everyone,

After climbing Rainier via the DC route this August, I am now signed up for a 10 day course with AAI in mid-June that will culminate in heading to the top of Rainier for the Kautz. I've read varying trip reports for June conditions and watched many youtube videos, and I'm concerned that the route will be too much of a walk up in June, compared to the more technical step-up from the ...

Winter is here? Does this mean no cinnamon rolls till Spring?

http://www.goskagit.com/news/highway-ov ... 416b0.html

Back by popular demand is Fall Colors in Washington State!!!

http://www.summitpost.org/fall-colors-in-washington-state-2016/985053

I finally put together some video clips from my n+1 trip to Mt Rainier in July 2016. The video features three overlapping but different stories of five climbers.

https://www.facebook.com/Mountaineering ... 959836467/


I would like to say hello to all persons I met in Mount Rainier National Park during this trip and thank park climbing Rangers, guides, and other park personnel for being concerned and helping us (e.g. in ...

I am looking for information on a traverse between Mount Hinman and Mount Daniel in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The route we are considering is coming down from Necklace Valley to the La Bohn Gap and the standard route up Hinman, coming down the NW face and traversing up to and around Pea Soup Lake to ascend Lynch Glacier. Then descending by the standard Peggy's Pond route. Has anyone crossed between these mountains at a ...

Would be interested to know if anyone on the net has
made the circuit of the above peaks this year using
the Tatoosh Ridge Trail crosscountry over Ptarmigan Pk
to Shellrock Pass and out by way of Eureka Creek Trail
Dot Lake and Fred's Lake to the Pasayten River. I am
particularly interested in knowing if anyone has been
to Lease Lake or the trail to Pleasant Valley and Pt.
Defiance and the ? trail ...

Anyone poking around the OR Cascade volcanoes recently? Specifically interested in Jefferson and N. Sister, but any recent beta is greatly appreciated!

TIA

Has anyone seen this?
http://www.king5.com/tech/science/envir ... /305703146

Fucking outrageous. If anyone has organized an opposition I'd love to know about it.