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zephyr aka friendly hiker
Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 3361 | TRs | Pics Location: West Seattle |
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zephyr
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Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:16 pm
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rubywrangler wrote: | ~29 mi, 9900' of gain |
Geez Louise! rw. You're a beast. (in a good way.)
rubywrangler wrote: | n fork sky |
Super gorgeous little spot there. The color of that water. Wow. ~z
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zephyr aka friendly hiker
Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 3361 | TRs | Pics Location: West Seattle |
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zephyr
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Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:17 pm
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puzzlr wrote: | After checking it out on Google Earth, I think all of those are correct. |
Awesome. Thanks, puzzlr. ~z
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rubywrangler Member
Joined: 04 Aug 2015 Posts: 509 | TRs | Pics
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zephyr wrote: | Geez Louise! rw. You're a beast. |
Ha! I'm REALLY not. I just figured a big day would help me sleep on the red-eye!
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
rubywrangler wrote: | All new territory for me. |
I had been hiking for a long time before I made it into that area. No idea why I waited so long, lots of good stuff. Now I've made several in and out and loop hikes from various THs in that vicinity.
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hapemask Member
Joined: 17 May 2021 Posts: 29 | TRs | Pics
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hapemask
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Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:50 pm
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I decided recently after hiking to Camp Muir for the first time that some day it would be cool to climb Rainier, so today I tried to push myself to hike a bit more gain than I usually do. I tried to do a loop from P3 -> ridge to Defiance -> down and up to Bandera. I got the first two and then up to the false summit before real Bandera but was so out of gas that I just rested and turned around. Still a nice day.
All 3 peaks from below P3, pretty cool that you can see them all at once. Early on the ridge to Defiance. I think I was off-route too far down the south side slopes just before this shot, things got pretty loose. Looking back from partway up Bandera.
Cyclopath, mosey KascadeFlat
Cyclopath, mosey KascadeFlat
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puzzlr Mid Fork Rocks
Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 7216 | TRs | Pics Location: Stuck in the middle |
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puzzlr
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Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:15 pm
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P3 and Defiance are a lot. And Bandera false summit counts as the top in my book! I've been over to the real summit a few times but it's not as fun except for the view of the big talus field. Why did this talus field (out of hundreds in the cascades) get an official map name of "Hi Valley" on USGS maps?
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Sore Feet Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 6304 | TRs | Pics Location: Out There, Somewhere |
Rock Mountain via Snowy Creek:
Road 67 is in rough shape, 2wd vehicles may have trouble beyond the Smithbrook TH. The spur road to the Snowy Cr Trailhead is in much better shape - no brush tunnels at all, looks freshly cut back (may have been last year). Snowy Creek Trail is badly overgrown in several areas, but still relatively easy to follow. Worst spots are in the first mile, but there are one or two problematic spots on the climb up to the basin. There's a large swath of avalanche debris and snow in the basin at the 2 mile mark, easy enough to cross but once the snow bridges over the creek melt out it may be a bit trickier. Possible Yellowjacket nest right along the trail about 1/4 mile above the basin - didn't get stung but a couple large bugs were swarming me (may have just been Deer Flies, didn't stick around to find out).
Easily the worst Black Flies I've ever encountered in my life. Didn't get bit much due to copious applications of DEET, but it did not stop them from landing whatsoever. Fortunately the wind picked up closer to the summit, which kept them at bay on top, but the climb up was not fun.
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HikingBex Member
Joined: 17 Aug 2020 Posts: 110 | TRs | Pics
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Mt Pugh yesterday (7/24). Talk about some incredible summit views! The scramble sections were really fun, and I say that as someone who gets freaked out by scrambling pretty easily. Some pretty big blowdowns along the trail, but all but 1 was easy to navigate. Could see some serious smoke plumes coming up from what I think are the fires near Mazama, but we were lucky that the nearby air was nice & clear.
smoke plume coming from behind Dome Peak (I think) Sloan & many mountain layers Great views of Glacier fun catwalk section of trail, Baker & Shuksan in the backgroun nice paintbrush along the trail scramble route follows the rock ramp in the center of the photo - very fun!
Cyclopath, hapemask, mosey, awilsondc KascadeFlat
Cyclopath, hapemask, mosey, awilsondc KascadeFlat
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altasnob Member
Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 1382 | TRs | Pics Location: Tacoma |
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altasnob
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Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:19 pm
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Chair Lake
mosey, Tom
mosey, Tom
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Tom Admin
Joined: 15 Dec 2001 Posts: 17835 | TRs | Pics
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Tom
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Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:27 pm
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^ thumbs up for both pic and legit lazy TR
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kw Member
Joined: 30 Sep 2020 Posts: 84 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue |
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kw
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Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:55 pm
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MSH Monitor Ridge, great views even though smoke on the horizon did seem to block out most of the Oregon volcanoes (except for Hood) and anything north of Rainier.
Group behind us makes their way up the vertical beach Adams looking very melted out
Dave Weyrick, silence, reststep
Dave Weyrick, silence, reststep
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hot.choss Member
Joined: 07 Jun 2016 Posts: 29 | TRs | Pics Location: North Bend |
Image Lk & Plummer Mt via Phelps Creek TH. 7/29-31
Spent two nights at Cloudy Pass. The original idea was to climb Dark and North Star but a combo of heat, bugs, and low stoke led me to change plans after the approach. Day 2, I rambled over to Image lake for some swimming and climbed Plummer, excellent views all day.
Brought an ice ax which I pulled out once going down spider gap in the early morning hours.
Cyclopath, resilient, ozzy, Silas, kw, Dave Weyrick, awilsondc, geyer, HikingBex, rubywrangler jaysway
Cyclopath, resilient, ozzy, Silas, kw, Dave Weyrick, awilsondc, geyer, HikingBex, rubywrangler jaysway
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
Avalanche destruction...was really surprised to see this much of a mess and with that much snow still remaining. Huckleberry Creek trail, not far from Forest Lake.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
jaysway
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
jaysway
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bccarlso Member
Joined: 05 Aug 2011 Posts: 174 | TRs | Pics Location: Tacoma |
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bccarlso
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Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:20 am
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Last weekend overnight at Rampart Lakes. One word, or rather three: BUGS BUGS BUGS. Photos included. Note the ones on me arse - they got through.
http://imgur.com/a/l9jx2FS
Edit: fish report.
- there were fish. I got a bite or two of fish but the bugs got more bites out of me so I didn't fish much.
jaysway
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timberghost Member
Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 1316 | TRs | Pics
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