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rubywrangler Member
Joined: 04 Aug 2015 Posts: 511 | TRs | Pics
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A Mountaineers group broke trail to Sourdough on Saturday, so Julia and I took advantage of their hard work and headed up on Sunday. Julia wanted to "go big" So despite the fact that neither of us have hiked at all for the past couple months, we decided to deal with the 5200' gain and be ok with hobbling today.
There was patchy snow on the trail starting at ~2800' or so and solid snow at 3000', but the path was consolidated enough from the recent traffic that snowshoes weren't really needed even after leaving the trail and heading up the ridge. Julia put hers on around 5500' and I held out until 5900', just a couple hundred feet below the summit. We spent a glorious hour on top soaking up the sun, marveling at the views and taking way too many photos.
leaving the forest davis and pickets despair, glee, degenhardt, inspiration, mcmillan, azure lake from the ridge julia putting on snowshoes diablo lake and beyond ridge walking where i stopped to put on snowshoes julia in the rime ice forest more icy trees path on the ridge fury - luna + stetattle ridge summit sourdough LO summit pano 1
summit pano 2
summit pano 3
looking back at sourdough awesome views from the ridge awesome views from the ridge on the ridge heading into the trees just as the good light hits ruby red, logan, storm king, buckner julia taking in last views
4.5 hours up, 3 hours down with plenty of snack and photo breaks each way.
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awilsondc Member
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RichP Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 5633 | TRs | Pics Location: here |
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:24 am
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I've monitored their site more than once in order to find a broken trail.
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fourteen410 Member
Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 2628 | TRs | Pics
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Good stuff
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kitya Fortune Cookie
Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 842 | TRs | Pics Location: Duvall, WA |
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:48 pm
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Beautiful! This weekend was an amazing time to go high, I should have done it too! How do you check if Mountaineers broke trail somewhere?
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RichP Member
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:54 pm
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
That looks amazing. I never would've even thought of heading up there in the middle of winter. Good stuff.
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Eric Hansen Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2015 Posts: 866 | TRs | Pics Location: Wisconsin |
Fabulous, thanks for the pictures. Looks like the Mountaineers are doing another Sourdough trip Jan. 20.
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Nancyann Member
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:18 pm
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Looks like a very fun day and a good one for rubywrangler to “take way too many photos”.
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Matt Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4307 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Matt
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:30 pm
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | That looks amazing. I never would've even thought of heading up there in the middle of winter. Good stuff. |
Just remember, if you go here in winter, leave the trail at about 3900 feet and go straight up the ridge. Don't stay on the trail beyond that, because it traverses into the Sourdough Creek valley and then across a huge wide open slope on its way to the lookout. Views from the higher ridge are better anyway.
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Thank you for the poignant tip about the winter route Matt.
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Foist Sultan of Sweat
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 3974 | TRs | Pics Location: Back! |
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:03 pm
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Wow go big indeed! Thanks for getting my cousin back down safe!
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OutOfOffice Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2015 Posts: 91 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
Posting here so I remember to do this hike this year.
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
Spectacular weather and views! Love Sourdough. The only "Ruby" I see is Ruby Mtn.....no Ruby- dog along?
( oh wait, it's in the NP )
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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rubywrangler Member
Joined: 04 Aug 2015 Posts: 511 | TRs | Pics
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BrushBuffalo wrote: | no Ruby- dog along? |
Yes, Ruby could not join since we were in the park. She enjoyed the sunny weekend from our patio in Fremont though. So it is with utter devastation that I have to let you know that Ruby passed away yesterday. She'd been slowing down recently due to old-dog problems that seemed like arthritis, but on Wednesday her back legs stopped working completely. She spent that night at the hospital and on Thursday morning pathology revealed that a particularly aggressive brand of leukemia had taken hold since her last blood test in November. Given her age and other complications, they expected intense chemotherapy would only buy her two months, and with questionable quality of life. Without treatment, she would only have a day or two before extreme suffering began. So, she went peacefully at home last night with the help of 'Peaceful Pet Transitions'.
I'm consoling myself reminiscing about our past adventures and misadventures. Like when we accidentally wandered off-route in the north cascades on the first weekend of October years ago, and she kept me warm during an unplanned overnight with no overnight gear. And when she stole a whole sandwich right out of someone's hands at Green Mountain lookout. (Foist, sorry about your wife's lunch... Ruby’s manners improved over time ) A lot of people have commented on how lucky she was to have me and how great of a life I gave her, but I got as much as I gave, or more. I won the dog lottery when I adopted Ruby. She was the best. Ruby
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