"We write a tale of adventure with our thoughts and actions every day. And it's a story that we don't get the opportunity to edit and rewrite. The first draft is the final draft. Let's write it well." – Royal Robbins
This hidden away gem in Washington State has been on my to-do list for several years, and now it's on my annual to-do list! The Scottish Lakes High Camp is on the Alpine Lakes Wilderness boundary and the quickest access into the Scottish Lakes within the Chiwuakum Mountain range area. The winter trails range from flat …
This course really helped fill in some of the gaps from my AIRE 1 course. Adding an emphasis on technique and learning how to become more efficient with my uphill travel along with picking better routes. Our instructor Solveig was extremely helpful answering questions about ascent routes, avalanche observations, and in general was an awesome guide to be leading our …
With a fresh blanket of snow Sunday night, and a midweek day off of work to tour. Brenan and I decided on an easy tour around Yodelin for the day to get time on our skins, and check out the old decommissioned ski resort (circa mid 1970's). Usually on weekends this is an overused madhouse for …
Every year for the last 7 years I've been ringing in the New Year on the right foot at Paradise and this year we incorporated camping on Mazama Ridge to our annual snowshoe/skin trip. The last few months I spent designing and building my pulk system to drag along with us. We had a couple of options for …
Well, today was a compromise. Our plans kind of changed at the last minute the night before. I wanted to just go to Paradise to go skin before the next storm, albeit I'm not a fan of going by myself, and Lyss wanted to take the dogs out. Mia apparently had a cut …
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Lyss is still learning how to ski, but her first set of skis are a touring setup, so we took her out for some low angle wind blown powder at Paradise to try out her skins. Starting out at Paradise, we went above the lodge and up the Edith Creek Basin. Generally we avoid the bridge unless we …
So in the short term, I've been trying to find any gear that is helpful toward increasing my efficiency and comfort as I am learning. Basically the rule of thumb to me, is make stuff easy, and maybe the rest will someday follow. Ability to glide my foot forward is paramount. This might also just …
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The plan for the day was to drive up to Paradise, and do a really low angle tour toward Glacier Vista with Tim coming along on snowshoes. The objective was a few snow pits and lots of observations in safe terrain to look for the potential buried weak layers causing the high and considerable avalanche forecasts in safe locations with some beacon …
From one volcano to the next! Robin, Janelle, and I headed out to Paradise to Wallow in what I suspected as a tracked out Paradise after the epic storm hit Saturday night. My first trip for the season to Paradise, so I totally forgot that the National Park now uses Twitter to update the road …
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A birthday celebration in the snow! After much deliberation, and a rollercoaster of freezing levels and epic proportions of precipitation over the week prior to the event... We decided to go snowshoeing toward Artist Point if conditions permitted. The weather which was supposed to let up, in true North Cascades fashion had a different plan! …
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