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Trip: Palisades Mountain - From Hidden Lake Trip Date: 07/25/2025 Trip Report: Dwayner and I continue our "minor peaks" quest inside MRNP. Got a little off route on the way up from Green Pass, but found traces of a long-ago boot path during our descent. My first time in this area. The lakes and meadows are the best in the park! Flowers are out. And so are the mosquitoes. Gear Notes: . Approach Notes: .

I look forward to hearing about your anniversary climbs! Then & Now pictures!

Trip: Goat Island Mountain - West Ridge Trip Date: 07/11/2025 Trip Report: Another MRNP Peak with Dwayner today! Left the Summerland trail about half mile above the creek crossing and boulder-hopped up Fryingpan Creek until we were forced to cross. The water was pretty high. Up to the saddle above the giant chock stone, then along the long long long ridge to the highest point. Some of the best views in the park--or anywhere on Earth IMO. Gear Notes: Boots Approach Notes: Trail to Summerland, then XC

We tested that. It's a really nice horizontal hand-sized crack that leads right into the vertical system, about 20 feet moving rightward. Only problem is no foot holds, completely smooth--and its a long vertical drop.

Less than 35 feet to go! I guess it would be the east ridge as our backs were to the Tahoma Glacier. Whether to go right or left here was beyond us.

0 for 2 on Tokaloo Spire. The old piton is there, but looks pretty worthless--and the fall is a big swing. Next time we will try climber's left.

White Saddle is being more selective. The BC Government puts them on the hook for missing/rescue/recovery costs associated with anyone they fly. They will not fly any climbers into Waddington who they feel are not qualified to safely complete their stated objective. When I flew with them in 2019, I got the impression their bread & butter is now skiers and provincial fire fighting contracts--and climbers were becoming too much of a liability.

Great report! Well done on the self-rescue too.👍

Outstanding! Just when you think there's nothing new under the sun, someone like you goes out and finds it!

Not sure what the benefits/drawbacks/utility of a detachable penis would be as I haven't given it much thought. There are some questions I'd want answered first.

The KIRO video/original story revealed her to be thoroughly annoying. Came across as narcissist/dismissive. No matter. Welcome to the new era of PNW climbing. Little white squares.

“It was supposed to freeze overnight and didn’t," she says, “I was just, like, standing, and then all of a sudden, the snow underneath me collapsed." Ummm, yea. Ok. And you're a guide?

Is it just me? IMO this episode reflects very poorly on the climbing community. No broken bones? Hike the f^ck out. At a minimum, turn off your "live feed" while good people are trying to rescue you. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/washington-woman-records-mountainside-rescue/ar-AA1H3KjQ?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Beautiful trip; great photos!

https://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/carbon-river-and-mowich.htm Based on a conversation I had with staff and the link above, it is illegal to access the park via Mowich or Carbon entrances--period. No bicycle workarounds, not via Foothill Trail, no secret back doors. No access except from Sunrise or Westside Road on foot. (I didn't mention Lake Eleanor.) Unless, of course, you are NPS staff in a white pickup truck.

Conflicted. Not a big fan of trail runners--or the NPS.

Great TR! Thanks. We did this one back in the 1990s--I think it was mid May and the Boulder Shelter was buried to the roof. I do recall some very, very steep snow below the top that was obviously covering a cliff band. This was the era of 35mm slides; I'll have to flip through the book.

True--but I assume the Bellingham Herald still has an editor who reviews articles before publication?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh my, if this is the state of local journalism, well, we're in worse shape than I feared. Please please please tell me this was NOT a WWU grad. Kids who can't write good. I scrolled down to her bio. Hard to fathom how writing like this gets past the committee.

Oh, duh! You meant THE mountain!🤣

Haha. Yes, very foreshortened. I think the only place to see the "whole" mountain is from Beljica above Lake Christine. Not sure you can get there anymore as the road is closed? From inside the park, there are some views from below Round Pass--but the mountain is basically just a long cliff/ridge. A traverse from Lake Allen to Lake George would be VERY interesting! These are the best I can do from yesterday:

Trip: Mount Wow - Via Lake Allen Trip Date: 06/02/2025 Trip Report: Climbed Mount Wow with Dwayner today. Very enjoyable hike to Lake Allen up the very steep boot path, then mostly snow to the short ledge. Bare there and above. Flowers are starting to show everywhere the snow isn't hanging around. About 4000' gain/loss in only about 6 1/2 miles round trip. Steep. Gear Notes: Mountain boots still helpful. Ice axe too. Approach Notes: It's a boot path to the lake.

Detached much?

It's funny, I hiked the Grand Canyon earlier this month. NPS is building a GIANT pump house along the Colorado River near Phantom Ranch and installing a 10" pipe all the way up to the south rim along the Bright Angel Trail. Also a large pump station at Havasupi Gardens humming away in an otherwise pristine setting. NPS is getting ridiculous--compare the wilderness zealots at NOCA with the industrial scale recreation at Grand Canyon with the political grandstanding at Yosemite. Makes no sense. Pretty clear there has been no definable mission at Interior for a long, long time.

Awwww Porter, c'mon. Just when we were starting to have a good dialogue, you pout & get all bitchy. A common problem with progressives--and products of Olympia Public Schools. Truth is, I'm not "religious" at all. But I do believe in God. And I will take a Representative Republic over a theocracy or your mob democracy any day of the century. I just think America works best when it adheres to its traditional values. It's difficult for you, I get it.