Thunder-Robin High Route
One Last Hurrah for Summer September is the great transitionary month in the Cascades. The vegetation changes color and the weather starts to…
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Dakobed Range Circumnavigation
Secrets of the Glacier Peak Wilderness This summer, I’ve started to branch away from the classic climbs and trails of the Washington Cascades….
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The Extended Ptarmigan Traverse
An Island in the Sky The Ptarmigan Traverse is perhaps the most famous mountaineering traverse in the lower 48. It crosses 30 miles…
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Super Sierra High Route
The Trip of a Lifetime Going into the summer, we had some grand plans, but nothing compared to our goal of completing the…
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Ruby Crest Trail
Hiking Nevada’s Sierras Nevada has this funny inferiority complex to California. They like to compare things in Nevada to famous counterparts in California,…
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Kings Peak (Uintas) Backpacking Loop
Flat, Flat, Flat, and the Tallest Mountain in Utah Pulling up to the China Meadows Campground trail head the night before, we were…
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Tahoe Rim Trail
Learning to Thru-Hike Since Kylie grew up so close to Lake Tahoe, she always wanted to hike the Tahoe Rim Trail. It circumnavigates…
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Spider Gap – Buck Creek Loop
WA’s Finest Backpacking Loop If you have read many of my posts, you will understand I have a strong, strange fascination with the…
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Golden Horn
Kylie’s First Cascade Peak Since I visited Reno at the beginning of the summer, Kylie decided to come up to visit me in…
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Ladies Loop Backpacking
Lakes of the Chiwaukum This year, my sister, her boyfriend Shane, my dad and I decided to take a summer backpacking trip to…
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