On July 27, 2017, Odette and Jerry rode around Mt. Rainier in one day. Here’s the RAMROD site from the Redmond Cycling Club Here’s the RAMROD Training Series site – we did all but #14. We signed up for the lottery and it said that results would be announced in early April. On April 1 …
Objective: Back-up tandem that I can use on unpaved routes. Not likely to ride technical descents or difficult single track but interested in “gravel grinding”. Rides on my list include: Snoqualmie Valley Trail John Wayne trail Cedar River / Lake Wilderness trail Eastside Rail Corridor in Kirkland East Lake Sammamish trail Issaquah / Preston / …
CBS News Avalanche Buries Hiker; Cell Phone Saves Him Took Ian Rogers 45 Minutes to Dig It Out of His Pocket on Washington State Mountain, but He Got Through to 911 Right Away Ian Rogers was rescued from Granite Mountain (CBS) (CBS) Quick thinking and lots of good fortune saved a hiker in Washington …
January 23, 2001 Mr. Kurt MillerWarren Miller Entertainment2540 Frontier AvenueSuite 104Boulder, CO 80301 Dear Kurt: With your father living in the San Juans and you being around Seattle off and on for a long time, you must have heard about The Mountaineers – those guys with the long lines of climbers going up Mt. Rainier in the …
The Foothills Trail is a work in progress that will eventually go from Puyallup to Carbanado (up by the Carbon River entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park) as well as going to Buckley and maybe Enumclaw. Here is a link to the foothills trail website. At this point they only have something like 15 miles …
someday the foothills trail will connect to the interurban and will allow you to ride to Enumclaw and Mt. Rainier.
ALPINE LAKES 2005, or: Dr. B471l< and the 1337 H1l<3R5 I started off in the spring of 2005 thinking about doing a backpack into the Dutch Miller peaks. My plan was to hike the East Fork Foss trail through the Necklace Valley, scramble up to La Bohn lakes and then walk over to Williams …
GOAT ROCKS LOOP 2004 did not start auspiciously. PASC sold to ACS in January. The euphoria and hard work of making the deal happen were quickly replaced by the struggle to adapt to big-company policies and loss of personal control. I skipped the Phoenician in January to teach snowboarding to adolescents at Snoqualmie Pass. …
The Picket Range – August 6 – 13, 2004 The mountains in the Picket Range got good names. Luna. Fury. Phantom. Terror. Challenger. Everybody that writes about them seems to start out by commenting on that. The Picket that they’re named after was Captain George Pickett – a distant relative of mine who became famous …
PEAK BAGGERS: WASHINGTON’S HUNDRED HIGHEST People obviously climb for a lot of different reasons. There is a special group of climbers who climb, at least in part, to check off items on a list. In the late eighties and early nineties there was a legendary group of climbers in Seattle called the “Bulgers”. The Bulgers …
