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Month: May 2018

Stevens Peak Couloirs

Stevens Peak Couloirs

Posted on May 5, 2018January 27, 2021 by kyle

A quick spring mission to ski the couloirs on the NW side of Stevens Peak near Wallace, Idaho.

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I'm the kind of person who plans out details and uses all the tools to research before heading out. It removes a lot of the risk, but also the adventure. So it was refreshing to meet @wyatt.mullen for the first time, have him point at a mysterious ridge, and just go for the send. It culminated with this airy knife edge, incredibly positioned over the Washington pass environment. Thankfully, it went.

Roll out the red carpet... Early fall in the mountains is one of my favorite times of the year. The big snow could come at any point, entering the purgatory of late fall. But currently the forecast looks promising. I'm excited to go after a route I have been saving for a few years for just the right moment. Where are you headed this fall?

Day 3 of the Northern Olympic High Route brought us along the spectacular Grey Wolf Ridge. Name a more epic, easily accessible ridgewalk in Washington. The position between the needles and the ocean is absolutely 👌. A final steep descent got us back to our car. We had not seen anyone for nearly two full days!

On our second day of the Northern Olympic High Route, we faced deteriorating weather as we traveled the ridges of Mt Cameron and beyond to grey wolf pass. Our moods greatly improved once we got out of the sideways rain. By sunset, the sky cleared up and revealed a beautiful sunset.

Day 1 of the Northern Olympic High Route featured a ferry, setting up a car shuttle, and a beautiful walk from deer park to obstruction point, and along the ridges to the Lillian glacier moraine. This area has hands down the easiest access in Washington to epic ridge walking. The dry broad ridges look more like Colorado than here. It was exciting to see Blake and Grant's eyes light up at the new scenery.

On Saturday, @daniel.briggs convinced me to take a gamble with the smoke and go out for a long day in the ALW with @kolbeshort and Uli. We did the paddy go easy HR to Robin lakes, then bumped over to jade lake and up to the summit of Mt Daniel. It was a super fun route that felt like the little brother to the Alpine Lakes Crest Traverse and filled in some of the gaps in this beautiful area for me and Daniel.

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