2009 (OTHER YEARS) 12/27 Interurban trail to Aurora Village transit station – 16 miles on Will’s Mountain bike. (final 2009 mileage = 3,558 with 387 on the tandem.) 12/25 Foothills Trail from Sumner to South Prarie and back – 30 miles with Odette on the tandem. 12/24 Interurban trail to Aurora Village transit station – 16 miles on …
SELECTED MULTI-DAY BIKE TOURS Puget Sound & Islands Henderson p. 23 7 days, 215 miles – flat, possibly boring? North Cascades Highway Henderson p. 40 2 days, 130 miles – 9,300 ft. gain (a good training ride) – could be combined with something in the Okanogan Grand Coulee & Potholes Henderson p. 55 …
TRAINING FOR THE 2002 STP Here are the results of our training program: Week Weekly goal Ridden Routes & Conflicts 3/30 30 26 Burke – Gillman (home to Mathews Beach Park and back) 4/6 50 0 (PSIA-NW Spring Symposium) 4/13 70 0 (NYC) 4/20 90 12 Bike to School (Home to Lakeside via Freemont and …
First, here is a web site: HOLDEN VILLAGE. Then, here are some books: Woodmansee, Mike – Trekking Washington, Seattle, The Mountaineers, 2003. “Across the Great Cascades and Back” (pp 134 – 143) covers much the same territory. (He would have you start at the Suiattle River trailhead, hike to Image Lake and over Cloudy Pass …
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 …
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 – …
PICKET RANGE BOOK LIST Jim Nelson & Peter Potterfield – Selected Climbs in The Cascades. Luna Peak p. 197. “With a hard approach and a 3rd-class route on mediocre rock, the climb of Luna Peak has little to recommend it except the setting and the view – a view into what is probably the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
