OlympicMtnBoy

Anyone want to get out on some rock before summer ends? I’ve been home with baby and doing easier stuff this summer but can probably still lead most 5.10 sport or 5.9+ trad. Would love to get a moderate alpine climb (maybe mountain loop or the new Snoqualmie sport climbs but could also crag. Probably just a day climb if we haven’t climbed before. Cheers, Stewart

Nice! Been a long time since I brush bashed up tunnel creek to those lakes! You took the easy way!

Yay!

Sweet! Done that route twice now, just love rambling around that ridge. Cool bivy up there where you can watch the sunset and sunrise from your bag. we were up past Camp Handy over 4th of July weekend on our first backpacking trip with baby. I was actually surprised how not crowded it was that weekend.

Love it!

Thanks for pulling this back up!

Woot! Nice work finding the right way!

So cool, great to see this repeated! Thanks for the TR! Now you ought to go check out the Needles traverse up the Dungeness next!

My mom is in town weds-friday so I won't make this one but party on!!

Thanks for the pics, I need to get back out there!

@PellucidWombat Thanks for putting that together, what a great TR! All the guts and glory on that one, the best kind of story where there's no permanent impact except the good story. And you got the summit to boot!

No one wants to read a TR about how badass you are and everything went even better than planned! I submit my own TRs as evidence. 😝

Cool, yea TR please!

Fun! Ice (kind of) at the end of March! One of these years I need to get someone to rope gun me up this cause I’m afraid of drytooling now.

Glad I at least got to see a couple of you! Also psyched for the topos from @Otto! Thanks for coming to Lake City, even if I almost missed it!

Where is everyone?? I’m sitting outside while the sun is up! Blue green jacket.

So I double booked myself tonight but I’m coming for a bit! I have a comedy show down the street at 730.

Looks great, I’ve been meaning to ski that, did you park at the new sno park (Anetter Lake) or could you get farther?

A fine time! Thanks @JasonGfor hosting us up north, and also @bellows for driving my butt back and forth. Really cool to meet @ratand @cfire in person and share some beer. @manninjowe’ll have to get out again soon! It was a fine break from baby home life so I look forward to the next one. Cheers everyone!

Suwheet! What time(ish)? Im near NE 143rd St and 36th Ave NE.

@bellowsand @olyclimber Hey can someone come pick my up from Lake City on the way?? Maybe we can get @Alissetoo!

That looks like a fun, thanks!

Like kids under 2? Our son is 6 months old. I guess we are a little late to the game since most of our friends have kids 3-tween or have decided not the reproduce. The first camp has different capabilities for family adventures since kids want to do stuff too, and it’s not always that much fun for us since ours can’t really ride the magic carpet or climb the kiddie wall. We could go xc ski with the trailer or snowshoe with him and do 5-8 miles pretty easily but that’s way to far for the others. Most of my non-kid friends (that still climb/ski) are in better shape and still want to go hard on the weekends so not interested in having an infant along. Anyone else out there in the in-between? My wife and I have been getting out together a lot but it would be nice to have a bigger crew that wants to tow babies, split lift tickets, or boulder. We have a bunch of new PEPS friends but we seem to be the far outlier for going outside with our kid. Anyone want to adventure? Advice from others who have been through this? It just feels isolating and hard to motivate to stay fit.

Thanks for asking, I’m just really lucky with the breaks as they may be, hah. I had a neck collar for too many months and I was able to start some light PT at three. I was back doing easy too ropes in the gym and xc skiing in 6 months and am pretty much back where I was now. Any new lack of fitness and aches and pains I blame on becoming a dad. With a seven vertebrae fusion I surprisingly don’t notice much in limited mobility since the thoracic spine doesn’t move as much anyways. I can’t look behind me as far as I used to without turning my upper body but I only notice that when biking and checking on a rider right behind me. I was able to get back out in August of 2021 to try again and approached up Mt. Tom creek. Due to other party limitations, weather, and difficult terrain we ended up just cresting the ridge near Hoh Peak and then dropping down to Dragon Lake. Dragon Lake had been on my list forever so that was super cool but I still need to get up that ridge on Mt. Tom. Thinking about trying again this summer up the S. Fork of the Hoh to Hoh Peak and then up the ridge to Tom and maybe Lake of the Gods and out Falls Creek. We’ll see!

That’s awesome! Thanks for supporting with your art!