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Good weekend to spend at Smith Rock. Drove out early Saturday morning with Chris Wilson. We got in 10 good pitches, including a 5-pitch multi-pitch sport route, and a handful of single pitch sport routes on the west side of…

Sunday, didn’t let the rainy forecast get in the way of doing The Mystery Trail again. Deb and I got off to a late start at 9:30am… We made good time getting up to the drop-off point (start of the…

Six of us did the Dynamite Cave on Saturday. This cave is up, outside of Trout Lake, Washington. The cave entrance is just a couple hundred yards from the parking area. We spent about 8-hours in the cave, which goes…

Solo trip up into the Cathedral Rocks area, Mount Jefferson Wilderness. Second time up there, but first time tagging all four high points of Cathedral Rocks. There was nothing technical, but there was some stiff 4th class scrambling. I parked…

Dang….another “Attempt” Running out of time, we were unable to tag this summit. There will be another time…definitely going back for this one. What a beautiful place! This mountain turned out to be much more serious than I thought. Must…

I don’t normally post pics of an “Attempt”, but this place is really scenic, so here’s a few pics. Our fist view of Big Horn…(left) Entering Cispus Basin… Evening shot of Goat Rocks from camp… We got to this point,…

My annual weekend at Elk Lake turned out to be 6-days this year. Arriving Wednesday, and leaving the following Labor Day in the evening. Had great weather Wednesday and Thursday, really shitty weather on Friday and Saturday, then Sunday and…

First and only trip up 3FJ this year turned out to be another great one. Deb, Chris and I started hiking at 5am, and were at the summit at 10am…which included an hour of wait time while another team led…

Mount Stuart, Cascadian Couloir Last one of the Mazamas 16-peaks for me. Not the best route on this mountain, but it gets you to the summit. I’ll definitely be back for the other routes. We did this climb Mazamas style…comfortably.…

Mount Olympus… Day one, drive to trailhead, hike in 9-miles to the guard station camp. Day two, hike 8-miles to Glacier Meadows camp. Day three, summit and back to Glacier Meadows camp. Day four, hike out 17-miles in the rain,…

Gannett Peak…Wyoming’s highest point (13,804′), in the heart of the Wind River Range. I think it’s the most scenic area I’ve been in so far. This climb was a lot of work, but the beauty around every corner, made this…

Had a great time this holiday weekend. Headed up to Leavenworth, WA. To do the Enchantments through hike, and a little Leavenworth cragging. Went with Emma, Rob, Ember, Chris, JJ, Jacque, and Brian. Found a decent camp spot near the…

Glad we did this. It was a tough go, but managed to get to the top of both Broken Hand, and Broken Top. The route was new to me, and mostly cross country. Great company too… The Grand View… Our…

Silver Star…the other one. After reading up on Silver Star, and finding out how close to the North Cascades it is, I was really stoked to go and climb it. Our team was me, Chris, Sue and Ember…the Super Team!…

  We’ve been talking about Mount Deception for a few weeks…and this weekend worked for three of us. Ron Jenkins, Sue Giordano, and I, took advantage of a good weather weekend and climbed Mount Deception. This climb is best done…

Well, another early season weather forecast, and lack of planning time, forced me to settle on a stay home on Saturday and get stuff done day, and a hike on Sunday. Sunday’s hike was a good one. Part trail, and…

Well, here it is, the Thursday before a long weekend and the weather is still not stable enough to plan… As we threw out many options, like Deception, Enchantments, Diamond…I remembered a route on Middle Sister that I had always…

After warming up on a 5.9 bolted route called Slab Happy, we headed over to attempt the Smith Rock classic, Voyage of the Cow Dog, a 3-pitch 5.9 bolted route with tons of exposure. Pitch one, a 9-bolt face climb,…

Pipe Rock (HCR) Wow! An incredible climb. Lots of work + scary as hell = Fun Shit! Pipe Rock is a 250’ pinnacle located in the Canyon Creek drainage, which is part of the South Santiam drainage…near Sweet Home. Because…

Three more trips up Rooster Rock…in three days. Saturday with Rob, Ember, Marty, and Sue. Monday with Tom Davidson, and Ann Ames. And Tuesday with Mike Pennington, and Verena Winter. Beautiful T-shirt weather all three days. A great way to…