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https://glaciers.nichols.edu/north-cascade-glacier-retreat/ Daniels Glacier on the northeast side of Mount Daniels retreated only 20 m from 1950-1979. From 1979-1992 the glacier retreated another 25 m. From 1992 to 2005 the glacier had retreated 441 m, with 700 m of retreat by 2023. The upper section of the glacier has thinned and new rock areas are showing through. The long lower margin of the glacier extending to the right has melted out in 2005. The glacier is losing area rapidly and is honeycombed with subglacial caves with thin ice above, ready for more rapid retreat of this type 2 glacier. In 2023 we could see the bottom of the glacier in many crevasses. There is no retained accumulation in 2023, the third year in a row with no significant retained accumulation, hence this glacier cannot survive long.

Well, another image conversion thing to look at. Board doesn't like my iphone configuration I'm using. (.dng).

Trip: Granite Mountain, Tuck and Robin lakes - dog route Trip Date: 10/13/2024 Trip Report: Kiba and I hit up another super crowded classic made less crowded by being late in the year. drove up to the trailhead and there were only like 20 cars! I remember driving up during the Covid years and counting some 200+ cars filling the parking lot and lining the road forever. Slept in the parking lot and hiked up to the upper Robin Lake. Super sunny and I didn't feel like doing much so we took a nap in the warmth and then wandered around the lakes up there. Next morning hiked up to Granite Mountain, really nice up there! I gotta find older pictures of Mt Daniel...wonder how much the glacier on it has melted out. I know the Hinman glacier was pronounced dead in 2023 I think? It has a good time out with my best buddy, absolutely bluebird days. Sorry for all the photos, I'm pent up here... Gear Notes: stuff and things Approach Notes: walk up the trail

Yes tracks and points is easy. And photos too but Outsde imo purposefully leaves out a bulk export of photo way points

free is good! i loved it when it was free, or at least all the features I used were. but they started charging for stuff since i'm paying now, I looked around and found the maps in CalTopo to be better. It isn't perfect, but better than Gaia. also found some bad stuff about Outside, but I can't remember what that was, so I won't bother digging it up. but i didn't want to give them my money.

Yes the Alpine Lakes is perfect for the elderly. Glad I didn’t do all this stuff earlier because I’m really enjoying doing it for the first time now.

this is from the other side of things from the prior weekend. Kinda makes me want to crank the Sword's song Freya or something like that for some reason.

I went to one end the previous weekend, and the other side this weekend. there are a lot of people doing that traverse! I ran into a few. I would have just gone for it if I had one extra day...but I kinda of like the idea of coming from Dingford and adding in HInman for a longer trip (along with Iron Cap, etc) along the way. Would be less traffic for the first part of it for sure.

yeah bro it's casual. did it in my ski boots.

wish i could have been somewhere safe with a good view to watch that trundle by the gods of gravity

I must admit I’m feeling a little guilty for not posting any trip reports this year. While I have been getting out, it’s all just been hikes with my dog and summits haven’t been my focus. I’m just trying to get to all the places wanted to go but haven’t for some reason. This place I haven’t because the parking lot is usually full with a 1/4 mile of cars along the road. But this weekend there were just a few cars and it was a beautiful weekend. Next year I do plan on the traverse up here, but an extended on from Dingford. I’m sure many of you can guess the location this was taken from.

Nice guys!

Awesome, thanks for sharing @wayne !

What are you guys using? Today I just decided to cut over to CalTopo from GaiaGPS. I've been wanting to get off GaiaGPS for a long while, ever since it was absorbed into the Outside. I've loved being able to keep sort of a journal of geo located photos of my adventures over years, matched up with pretty good maps. Of course loved it when it was free and you could add the photos and sync them to the desktop/web for free. Since then I've continued to use it till I tried CalTopo and instantly liked the available maps better. I'm less worried about my track as I rarely use that feature. I only wish there was a way to bulk export all my photos from Gaia so I could bring them into CalTopo with the geo data. If anyone has found the best way to do this, let me know.

No man they are yours. I’ll dm you.

Yes, includes the sling, biners, tricams, cowbell. The lot.

I need to move on from these and get them into the hands of someone who will use them. Make me an offer for the lot. All or nothing!

😂 I forgot I blocked that word! But apparently it doesn’t block admins

Make a TikTok , get some sick drone footage, call it the best in Pacific Northwest, climb it in your Ugg boots.

Disgusting. But happy for you!

Sold!

I don't know the answer. If I were to guess it would be a glue-in, but that is just a guess. I guess it could be a displacement too. https://climbinghouse.com/bolts-safety-guide/

I'm selling a Garmin Enduro 2 GPS watch. It is functionally in great condition, works perfectly. This the Garmin watch that is designed around battery life. If you hate charging a watch, but still want GPS functionality....and you don't like to pay full price for crap, then this is the watch for you. It also has solar charging. I got so sick of charging the Apple Watch I had every day that I paid a lot of money for this one brand new, and I quickly became a believer. Only one better than this is the new Enduro 3 that just came out. I won't go into all the features this watch has, because you can read about it here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/854515 I was charging this one like once a month normally. Maybe twice if I did some longer activities, hikes, etc where I was doing GPS tracking. I never had this watch ever come close to dying on me during an activity. Check the specs in the link above. The bezel on this Enduro 2 has some cosmetic scratches. The actual watch face has none. This occurred on one of the scrambles I did with the watch, but it doesn't impact functionality at all. If anything it makes the watch look cooler, but I'll leave that for you to decide. I used the nylon strap for a band, so that part is used. It does have the rubber wrist bands in the box, it is totally unused. You can also buy a nylon band if you want a fresh one. Comes in the original box and with a charging cable. $300 OBO. Check around, good price.

Ha for me I ended up with a back issue related to my collarbone smash that also brought never ending migraines. Super fun. So I only did a few modest hikes and scrambles. But any day in the alpine is a good one, and grateful to have gotten out when I did. This past weekend spent a night out with Kiba next to the highest pond up here: popular place but managed to avoid most of the people. Sure was smoky. Ran into a guy who turned around at the Hannigan trailhead as people coming out reported a brush fire past the pass back there.

Wow awesome write up! Thanks Eric! Cool project.