bang for your buck | north olympics high route
I think I was moaning a little too much about not having an “epic adventure”. My friends, however, got me stoked on doing a high route... // 43 miles . 15600 ft gain . 6950 ft high
hot pa-pahto | north ridge adams
A glorious weather window over a weekend in Washington means a perfect time to go climb a volcano.... The North Ridge is supposedly the second most climbed... // 20 miles . 8160 ft gain . 12276 ft high
alpenglow wonders | ruth mountain overnight
When I’m in charge of planning a backpacking trip, I capitalize on my one goal in life: find and capture that alpenglow... // 13 miles . 5800 ft gain . 7115 ft high
chasing the alpine | eldorado c2c ski
Eldorado, Queen of the Cascade River, beautiful, wondrous, simply incredible. It is known as a classic climb, a great... // 14 mi . 7300 ft gain . 8868 ft high
down under circumnavigation | kangaroo wallaby (wa pass) ski tour
Our original plan was... we ended up creating a loop with the same start, going up towards Kangaroo Ridge and over to Wallaby Peak: a Down Under Circumnavigation.... // 6.5 mi . 4300 ft gain . 8040 ft high
leisure skin tour | three sisters hut ski traverse
What’s better than a leisurely ski tour with sunny weather? A bougie ski tour with all the amenities at each hut!... // 25 mi . 3800 ft gain . 8000 ft high
teanaway spring fling | navaho pass ski tour
Most weekends, I’ve had to ask people to go out to ski with me. Slowly I’ve been building up my list of potential ski partners... // 11 mi . 3350 ft gain . 6380 ft high
beat the sun | green mountain sunrise ski tour
This is a two-fold, interwoven exposé of a wild idea to find alpenglow on a ski tour. It is kind of the best of both worlds, an engagement photo... // 13 mi . 3900 ft gain . 5670 ft high
sunny side slopes | chiwaukum ski tour
The Chiwaukum is an underrated region of the Cascades. I’ll be the first to admit that I had zero desires to go when I first heard of it. I… // 14.5 mi . 5400 ft gain . 6680 ft high
infinity mountains | ruby ski tour
This trip began with a yearning to ski a “big” mountain. What’s a big mountain? Well, in my mind, it’s one where you can have some... // 12 miles . 5400 ft gain . 7412 ft high
yellow trees | stiletto-copper loop
Have you ever heard of the Larch March or #larchmadness? It's kind of this thing that gets hyped up in these parts of Washington and even in other regions like the Rockies... // 13 miles . 4500 ft gain .…
chilling on glaciers | snowfield peak
I can't say that it's common to cross multiple glaciers for a single climb. Sure, traversing might get you on several glaciers like the Ptarmigan Traverse or Isolation... // 20 mi . 9880 ft gain . 8350 ft high
the unexpected | mt logan via banded glacier
A journey. A destination. A will and a way. A yearning for adventure into the unknown and encountering the unexpected... // 35 mi . 13000 ft gain . 9090 ft high
scrambles and gains | mesahchie via easy pass
Let me preface this trip report: It’s amazing what your body can do and sometimes you don’t know till you try. My friend Tyler finally made his way back... // 15 mi . 7480 ft gain . 8795 ft high
inadvertent traverse | salmon la sac (jolly, skookum, louvre)
OMG WOW! I've never been so excited about a trail or traverse. For the past few weeks, months even, the weather has not cooperated on the weekends, leading to... // 5560 ft gain . 6460 ft high . 17.5 miles
out of the woods | three fingers ski
This is a story of how we didn’t get out of the woods, and I’ll forever be asking “Are we out of the woods yet?”... // 3500 ft gain . 3900 ft high . 17 miles
daylight savings | big jim ski tour
Goodness knows how long it’s been since I’ve had a big adventure, let alone in the winter. It’s so easy to just do something short and attainable, rather... // 4700 ft gain . 6850 ft high . 16 miles
spring snow | gothic peak
Melty snow, warm weather, partly cloudy skies. It's been years since I've been standing on a peak in the Mountain Loop Highway. Last time was on Vesper... // 4000 ft gain . 6213 ft peak . 11 miles
going up in smoke | mount shuksan
Literally, we went up into smoke. Late summer seasons in the PNW the past couple years have become equivalent to a blur of gray sky and sticky... // 3720 ft gain . 5880 ft high . 10.5 miles
