Attractions: A route that starts off slowly (a few miles of roads to slog up) before climbing to ridges and peaks with stellar views out over the North Cascades, Glacier Peak, Mt Baker, the Stuart Range, and Mt. Rainier. The route...Read More...
Photo: The view from part way up Tyee Mountain across the Entiat River Valley toward Angle Peak. Words and photos by Andy Dappen Tyee Mountain is better known as a firefighter’s mountain than a skier’s mountain. Twice in recent history...Read More...
Photo: Richard Talbot and Steph Jones appreciating the snowy crest of the Cascades. There’s so much snow!” they exclaim, their British accents oddly punctuating an observation many make at this point. We’re approaching Stevens Pass at 60 miles per hour...Read More...
Words and photos by Andy Dappen Despite splendid-snow conditions that we enjoyed around Central Washington in early winter, it’s been six weeks since measurable snow fell on the peaks surrounding Blewett Pass. Now the north-facing ski lines off Diamond Head...Read More...
The Wallowa Mountains, a fault-block range of shark’s teeth rising to nearly 10,000 feet and towering over the plains of northeastern Oregon, are the mountains where I cut my teeth as a backcountry skier. Like most locations where we develop...Read More...
Photo: Scenery as seen from the 6800-foot level while climbing South Reynolds. by Andy Dappen Coron Polley has had a bug up his donkey over the last two years. As a resident of Chelan, Coron has spent most of his...Read More...
Summit Post details this trail nicely and includes photographs. Click here to view the post. Adapted from Summitpost.org: Reynolds Peak is a high, horned mountain in the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness located six miles northeast of the northern end of Lake Chelan....Read More...
Photo: The turns of mid-June on Reynolds Peak. Skiing Reynolds Peak: Endless Winter or the End of Winter? by Andy Dappen For each of us, the math determining when our ski season ends varies. For me at least half of...Read More...
Summit Post details this trail nicely and includes photographs. Click here to view the post. Adapted from Summitpost.org: Nearest Town: Leavenworth/Plain Uses: Mountaineering/Scrambling Skill: 1 Fitness: 2 Access: Drive US Highway 2 and turn north toward Lake Wenatchee. After the Wenatchee...Read More...
Rainy Pass to Cascade Pass – A High Traverseby Bill Wicheta Five days off, a great weather forecast, an adventurous companion, and fabulous mountains near by—it makes the first challenge figuring out what we should do in this area of...Read More...
