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Joker Mt. summit

2013-04-11T05:01:22.788Z

Crummy video. Keep your mouse on the Pause button to freeze frames, and you'll see some of the view in Corgi Country. I had to pan fast to keep the filesize down. 7600' just east of the North Cascades near the Canadian border. We bivouacked on a sub-summit just below this. This is the day before Al got hurt.

Summit view Portal Peak

2012-08-09T03:51:37.940Z

Portal Peak, 7000', Glacier Peak Wilderness. This shows our bivouac and attempted climb of Glacier Peak on the previous day. We climbed Portal Peak as an afterthought. A perfect summer 3-day weekend. 2:30 PM, 11 miles from the car.

Cloudy Pk summit view

2010-02-09T06:18:20.950Z

The final 20' of this 8000' peak was too much even for Gwynnie. She was waiting in a safe spot about 20' below the summit when I took this video. There was quite a bit of off-trail scrambling, but most of the 3-day trip was just a walk. We spent the previous night perhaps 500' below this place. This is Sept. 2009, the end of the 3-month dry season, so the mountains are very bare and dry (this is the dry, east side of the Washington Cascades).
The panorama begins and ends with the NE face of Glacier Peak. The great rocky peak at 0:41 is called Bonanza, one of the biggest nonvolcanic peaks in Washington Sate. We came through Spider Gap at 1:00 the previous day. The sharp horn at 1:19 is the north side of Fortress Mtn., which we climbed the next day from the opposite, south, easy side. This is the popular Spider Gap/Cloudy Pass/Buck Creek Pass loop.
Just walking the dog.

White Chuck R. headwaters

2009-10-02T05:14:37.873Z

This opens with the north side of White Mtn. above the milky glacier-fed headwaters of the White Chuck River in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness. We did the scramble described; the terrain is relatively gentle, not a challenge for Gwynnie.
The whole basin is a subalpine wonderland, calm and quiet but for the ubiquitous burbling of the streams.
We're gonna stay up here until an hour past the last minute, hike out in the dark, and start driving home just before the first raindrops of winter fall.

Fortress Mt. summit

2009-09-25T04:35:35.428Z

8674', Gwynnie's record.
This opens with Buck Mt. to the south (Al will climb this in 2011), then the Entiat mountains to the east (clear) and Glacier Peak, a volcano, to the southwest, coming in and out of the clouds. Note the U-shaped, glacier-carved Chiwawa river valley, and the pitiful remnant of that glacier.
We were just above the clouds, one of the most thrilling mountaineering views. We'd climbed through gloomy fog on a compass bearing to get here.
There were some steep, not-corgi-friendly sections with loose rock near the top -- no place for a dog, really -- but most of it was fairly easy.

NOTE: you cannot do stuff like this with other people around, because dogs are stupid about rockfall, on both the initiating and receiving ends. They'll kick rocks loose, and if rockfall comes tumbling towards them, they'll think it's a tennis ball! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.