(2019 update) I don’t like the SR 520 Trail! It’s too hilly. And those hills always seem to come at the end of a long ride. Why coujldn’t they have engineered it to stay on the same grade as the freeway? Besides, it puts you out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it’s poetic justice: …
ODETTE’S TRAINING RIDES FOR THE 2006 STP 7/15 & 16 Seattle to Portland – 204 miles on the tandem (average speed 15.7) 7/11 Burke Gilman to Lake Forest Park – 24 miles on the mountain bike (average speed 11.0) 7/9 Interurban to Auburn, return via Northern Green River trail – 32 miles on the tandem …
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. …
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 …
THE BASIC CLIMBING STORY I grew up in a little mountain town in eastern Oregon and I spend quite a bit of time outdoors as a kid. I hunted with my dad from an early age and most of the attraction of the hunt was the tramping around in the woods and the camping. I …
Jerry Scott (206) 784-9815 6260 First Avenue NW (206) 276-5276 (cell) Seattle, WA 98107 jerry@obatik.com Outdoor Experience Twenty-five years of mountaineering in the Cascades and Olympics. Significant summits include Rainier, Baker, Adams (Adams Glacier), Glacier, Hood, Olympus, Stuart (West Ridge), Bonanza, Goode, Prusik, Shuksan, Eldorado, Liberty Bell, Clark (Walrus Glacier), Constance, Challenger, Luna, Cutthroat (Southeast …
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 …
