Phil K

That is very neat. I love Nick's videos, but never realized that he has such a potty mouth. 🤫 I had the pleasure a few years back of taking a small plane tour from Boeing Field, out the MF Snoqualmie, past Stewie, up the Chiwawa, over Lake Chelan, around WA Pass and returning down the W side of Glacier Peak. It's so cool seeing all those places one has been to on foot. The comment that everything looks so much closer together from the air is really true. We have a Lot of goodness packed into a fairly small area. Thanks for posting this.

Rack o' pins. I'd prefer to sell as a lot. How does $75 sound? TOP ROW: Chouinard LA 3-14" thin, Chouinard LA 3/14" thick, Chouinard LA 2" thick, Chouinard KB3", Chouinard KB 2", two midget pins marked CMV AUSTRIA about 3/4"(angle) & 1"(straight) long ROW 2: SMC Shallow angle 2", SMC Shallow angle 3", Chouinard std angle 4", Leeper Z 1"w x 1/2"d x 1-1/2"l, Chouinard hook 2-1/2" x 1" ROW 3: 5x CASSIN angles 5/8" x 2-3/4" Chouinard stuff is pre-BD, so it's got to be extra-good.

Does anyone still telemark? These are looking for a new home, and the price is right. Free. Skis are nothing to brag about, but work well as a tele ski. 183 cm Dynastars with nice sidecut and mellow flex, in good condition. Bindings could be de-mounted and shipped for a fee, or pickup in the West Seattle vicinity. IMG_8270 2.HEICIMG_8270.HEIC

That Kiba is a good looking pup!

Nice work, and thanks for the TR. Yeah.... Pete Doorish. 🍻

Sorry. How's your 'cross training coming?

Did you do the adventure route? That’s some high level choss dogging.

While Jason was probably out tagging summits, I hiked in to a few subalpine lakes with a friend who is even older and more out of shape than me. I had hoped we might get up into the rocky heights, but that was not to be. I did bring back pictures of some accessible Sweet Renton Snoqualmie Granite that to my (limited) knowledge has not been climbed. You could call this Dingford Creek Wall. To get to it, drive past der Garfieldwand to the Dingford Creek trailhead at 1400' elevation. Hike about 5 miles to Myrtle Lake at 3777', cross the outlet creek and ascend another 1200' in less than a mile to Big Snow and Snowflake Lakes. From there drop several hundred feet and contour around the toe of this buttress. This might require powering through some dense evergreen forests. But wow. It also looks like after topping out that you could just about walk back to camp which is a real bonus. And I hear there are fish in those lakes. Have Fun!!

Cool area, and very scenic. Having been up there, it can be a bit confusing. We checked out that face thinking it might be the main summit. It looked like fun, but it sure didn't seem like anything I was ready to solo. The actual summit from the E is a pretty reasonable scramble.

Why I still love this place. Thanks for the awesome TR!

If you're headed up to Midnight, stop and check out Damnation Crack on Jello Tower. It's only rated 9+, but the FA was in 1957, so it's probably a solid old-school 9+.

Jason may be a nerd, but he's hardcore. Hardcore choss dog.

There is another saying: "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots." I'm old, and was never especially bold, so take my advice FWIW; you kids be careful out there.

Hell’s bells; since I’m officially a geezer, almost anything I do counts as an achievement. There are still a few bucket list trips that I’d like to tick; semi-rugged off trail stuff that would involve some minor scrambling. I’m going to be 90% or more retired, so hopefully more multi day outings. Lots of high lakes to explore. Maybe finally get up into the Chelan Sawtooths and/or central Pasayten.

Nice try! Ice climbing in Washington is always conditions dependent, and sometimes you've just got to slog in to see what's happening. I think that upper climb could be easier to access with good snow coverage when it's well consolidated. There is quite a bit of slide alder to negotiate traversing below Alaska Mountain, and doing so while floundering would suck, big time.

Ha! I found a picture. OK, maybe that snow bridge was more than 3" thick.....

I remember that trip with Jason and Mizuki well. Funny story; we were descending down the NE shoulder, picking our way down along rocks and snowfields. At once point we hit a snowfield that rolled off steeply and across a narrow snow bridge that looked a bit sketchy. We put Mizuki (the lightest of us) on belay and sent her down first. As she’s going over the snow bridge she’s saying “It’s very narrow, it’s very narrow.” Of course we thought “yeah, we know; just do it.” I think it was my turn to go over next , and as I’m cramponing down this snow bridge I realize “Oh, she meant it’s THIN.” As in about 3” thick and maybe 18-20” wide. And if it busted, you’d do a wicked pendulum fall into this big overhanging snow cavern and get bashed up. Yeah, “Jason, tread lightly on your way down!!!”

I'll bet Joe's Garage is getting Phat.

Best typo ever!

That glacier ain’t what it used to be.

Ooops. That makes far more sense. But still!!

Great work; climbing, and putting up these excellent TRs!

I feel sorry for the Sherpas who get caught up in this nonsense.

Cool TR, that's a spectacular face. How was the road? Back around 2018 or '19 we drove that in my wife's Prius (Not my idea!), shortly after it had been regraded with dozens of water bars. I was sure we were going to get stuck and cause a huge Cluster F.

I clicked the cascade-ice.com link and got all kinds of malware alerts. Crap, hadn't noticed it was a zombie thread.