Carrie wanted to climb Mt. Carrie in the Olympics and asked me if I’d come along. I said that it would be cool to do it as part of a Bailey Range traverse since you had to do the first part of the traverse to get to Mt. Carrie anyway. A few months later we talked …
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Goat Rocks Book List Fred Beckey – Cascade Alpine Guide – Columbia River to Stevens Pass: overview p. 69, sketch map p. 70, Ives & Old Snowy p. 71, Curtis Gilbert p. 22, North Fork Tieton River Road p. 328, South Fork Tieton River Road p. 330, Goat Rocks section of the crest trail p. …
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Beckey, Fred. Cascade Alpine Guide 3: Rainy Pass to Fraser River. pp 196 – 200 for climbing route descriptions of Crater, Jack and Jackita mountains. pp 185 – 193 for really excellent commentary on geography, geology, and history of the area. Canyon Creek trail on p 387. McMillan Park – Jackita Ridge trail on p …
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Beckey, Fred. Cascade Alpine Guide 2: Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass, Climbing and High Routes. Railroad Creek Trail on page 366. Phelps Creek Trail on page 363. Lyman Lake Trail on page 359. Climbing in this area is covered mainly on pages 166 – 171 (Red Mountain, Chiwawa, Dumbell, etc.) and on pages 173 – …
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SPIDER GAP TO HOLDEN The week before labor day in 2000 Will and I hiked from Phelps Creek to Holden. On Saturday morning Odette dropped us off at the Phelps creek trailhead (about three miles from the old mining town of Trinity.) It was a day of broken clouds with a forecast of unsettled weather …
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Washington’s 100 highest In Search of Higher Ground – Washington’s Top 100 by John Lixvar (Lizard) This essay, reprinted from an earlier Echo, is an excerpt from John Lixvar’s forthcoming book on "Climbing Washington’s 100 Highest Peaks". In order to appease the impatient publishers at Mountaineer Books, Lizard is looking for contributions and/or volunteers to …
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PRESET SEARCHES Audrey Salkeld WPA guides Jill Neate Biking and Puget Sound Fred Beckey Geology & Hiking Harvey Manning Europe & Climbing Phil Woodhouse Biking & British Columbia Bob or Carl Dreisbach Puget Sound & Hiking Ira Spring (including his photos) …
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KEY WORD SEARCHES. climbing – all books about getting to the top of stuff climb guide – "where to" guides climb technique – "how to" books climb gear – small number of books about hardware climb literature – literature (mainly climbing narratives) about climbing, much of it away from the Cascades hiking – all books …
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