JasonG

Your blog is silent for a year, then this??!! Well worth the wait, great read and images!

Stunning! I think I may have to get into the whole state highpoint thing, at least out west. Any fish in those lakes?

I feel your angst.

Wait, am I missing something? Where is the discussion of the rockfall?

I never go in the gallery to browse photos, mainly because I assume others are like me and put minimal metadata with the photos upon upload. I like seeing them in the TR/post context.

Excellent work! You make it all sound so casual. Do tell of your mostly brush free way in there. I mostly remember a soul crushing bash through slide alder.

I thought God would have known how to edit a TR. Maybe he just likes to create though.

Indeed. Thanks for pushing through and bringing back a story and route to share with us all. I'm sure the approach is no joke, even with the pleasant surprises.

I've never seen a pack with a desperate finish, but I'd like to.

I think the main thing for me that would help is to not have to go in and individually edit image tags to get them to display larger than your current default. I resize them to ~1200 pixels on the long edge before I drop them into the TR, but then I have to go in and individually remove the "medium" from the image tag. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong? Regardless, if you could drag and drop right into the text (and have it stay there and not move to the bottom of the TR) that would be great. Especially if you could drag and drop a thumbnail. This would be a huge improvement. I wouldn't miss the gallery, I only use it to hold photos I'm going to put in a TR anyway.

Wow, that's fast. Anyway you cut it, that is a lot of miles and vert. Glad you enjoyed the traverse, I agree that it is a lot better than you would expect.

Nice! Another route I need to check out up there. The list grows....

That's a fun trip, thanks for the reminder! I can attest that the fall is also a nice time, esp. when the larches are golden. And you're right, you can bring a lot of whiskey when you leave the climbing gear at home.

In 2009 we used a single 60M

That is a great trip, a true NW classic! Brings back many fond memories, thanks. If you go back again, camp up on the Snowdome at least one night and watch the sun set into the Pacific from Panic Peak. That, and climb some of the other summits of Olympus. Lastly, the rap route is actually the most enjoyable way to climb the summit block (easy fifth, much better than the 4th class ledge system). Just bring a couple nuts and tri cams. A 37M glacier half rope works both for the rap (with some down climbing) and leading up.

Gmap4 just got even better. Amazing site you have Joseph, I use it all the time!

I think this may be one of the most well written and photographed TRs on the site! Thanks Luke, a fantastic report and climb.

Matt- That because it IS fun compared to the two on the list. And, I'm sure you've noticed, perfectly positioned for a human powered adventure!

Kurt, we need a WA TR! Sounds like you did it a bunch faster than us, which isn't surprising.... Sorry to hijack the TR, sounds like you guys had a great trip! Didn't you find that one textured face pitch on the SW buttress amazing? It's right up there with the most memorable alpine pitches I've climbed.

Is that today John?

Air quality may stink (depending on wind direction), but you should still be able to get in there if you drive 90 and 97: http://q13fox.com/2014/07/16/500-acre-wildfire-erupts-about-8-miles-northwest-of-leavenworth/#axzz37gQbBZ9r

I'm glad you guys enjoyed the report, I just added some captions to the photos....

Great images as well, thanks!

In our research for the climb, we dug up this page: http://www.bclodge.com/Climbing/Index/index.htm So very cool history on it, we printed out the notes from the 1971 climb and carried them with us. They were pretty helpful. And yes Tom, going left from the North/Middle notch is certainly the way to go. Very reasonable climbing in boots with decent pro. Thanks again for your TR and the rap station, both came in handy!

So now Mr. Explorer is the victim? We were supposed to provide constructive feedback with zero details on this "amazing geologic discovery"? Contact National Geographic, go back to fighting fires, and wake us all up when you've gone live with something substantive.