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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.

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.

Fortress Mtn., near summit.

2009-09-16T06:05:16.239Z

About 8600'. Climbing up through a white-out and getting above the clouds is always a big thrill.
It's a fairly easy scrambling route. This is a pretty big mountain for Washington, or for a creature with 6" legs.
You can see the U-shape of the Chiwawa Valley, and the pitiful remnant of the glacier that once filled it.
This is looking east, towards dry central Washington. We're right on the divide; the clouds are coming in from the west off the sea, dissipating as the air falls over the crest and warms.
The triangular peak at right is Mt. Maude, 9060'; Al and I will spend a night on that summit in 2011.