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 …
April 10, 2010 Jerry, Alex and Carrie attempt Granite Mountain A spur of the moment ski tour. Weather was supposed to be warm with “filtered sunlight.” There’d been a couple feet of snow at pass level during the last week. The avalanche center was saying considerable danger over 5,000 ft. on Friday going …
December 14, 2008 – January 3, 2009 Odette, Jerry & Will travel in China Here are the images So Will was studying at Beijing University, spending a term in a language/exchange program run by Pitzer. He agreed to travel with us if Odette and I came to China while he was …
September 5, 1996 To: The Mountaineers Board of Trustees From: Jerry Scott, DB, KC Subject: Red Mountain Accident Investigation _____________________________________________________________ The following is the report from the committee formed to investigate the events on May 19, 1996 when an avalanche hit a party of eleven Mountaineers on an Alpine Scrambles trip …
There was one radio station in town when I was growing up and it specialized in novelty songs and country-and-western that was about ten years out of date. I still get shivers when I hear “El Paso” or “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. I remember in high school taking albums down to a young DJ …
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. …
RETURN TO HOLDEN: LAKES AND LADIES BACKPACK August 23, 2003. Hot. Dry. Seattle’s been almost sixty days without rain. Big fires in BC and the Pasayten. Labor Day’s a week away. School’s about to start. Will and I take off for another extended backpack. This year Odette wants to come with us… Will’s big enough …
ENCHANTMENTS REDEUX Will and I, together with Art and Arthur Freeman, spent August 3 – August 12, 2002 in the Enchantments. We got to the Leavenworth ranger station to pick up our permit at about 9:15 on Saturday morning. We stopped at a bakery and were on the trail by 10:30. We took breaks every …
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 …
