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Some things that have been going on since getting here...
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Mt Maude hike - "B" on reference
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150386/mount-maude.html
At 9082ft it is one of the non-volcanic peaks over 9000ft in WA.
Met up with Kevin, who had posted about the trip on cc.com, George and wife Karen, and headed up with the intention of climbing the South shoulder (flat ramp in the sun) route to a col on the south ridge, camping out, summiting next day and descending. We made good time, so we ended up getting to the summit on the first day and camping out on it!
A party in good enough shape could do this as a day hike. The trailhead is at around 3100ft, so its a good elevation gain, but nothing grueling. It is part of the Entiat river cirque and is next to 7 Fingered Jack and Fernow (on right). That day/night, we had views of Baker, Shuksan, Glacier, Rainier, Adams (vaguely), the Olympics (in the waaay distance) and various peaks in the S/C/N Cascades and Kevin spent his free time pointing out as many as he could. Definitively cool that we had such great weather and no one else on the mountain for the summit bivy.
-Icy lakes, SE of Maude
-Kevin near the summit and a gully with a steep 80+ degree topout on the NE side!
-View from the Western shoulder that heads towards 7 Fingered Jack
-Mountain shadow
-Group shot
pics here
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ourbuddies/hike/maude0608/
Olympic Peninsula tidepooling, sightseeing - "C" and "D" on reference
After a 1.5hr wait for the ferry (holiday) and a 30min ferry ride you get to the Olympic peninsula... a world's apart from the rest of the state... and huge.
The GF and I headed to Third Beach (C) on the West side to check out some of the low tide pools. The hike to the beach is a quick 1.3 miles and then if you hike South a few miles on beach and up on land, you reach a rocky beach littered with tidepool life. The amount of sea life here was really amazing. I have never seen that many sea stars and anemones in one place... my gf really digs this stuff. The beach was full of campers from the weekend and so we decided to keep on the move.
We checked out the small town of La Push and then headed all the way back to Hurricane Ridge, a winding uphill road that takes into the Olympic mountains and views of Olympus, the Straight of Juan de Fuca, and black tailed deer... more deer. Didn't get many good pictures up there, day was overcast, but it would usually look like this:
http://www.atpm.com/10.12/northwest-washington-state/images/hurricane-ridge-2.jpg
Ruth Mountain skiing - "A" on reference
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150890/ruth-mountain.html
Saw this mountain on the "Selected Climbs in the Cascades" book. I had one day open this weekend since the GF was working so I decided that I needed to ski something and this would be it. Weather was overcast and I felt lazy, but I saw a lady in the lot with skis and she said that indeed she was skiing Ruth...I'd see her later in the day... so I lay my worries of going solo on a crevassed peak (in late season) and headed up. The mountain usually looks like this, but this day it looked like this. Holly (the skier) told me there was a 20 minute window with a view to the summit, but I was lagging way behind her and missed it.
4 miles of mellow trail hiking along the valley and I was on the snow. Holly and her dog, Lupe, took another better way up with more continuous snow, which she showed me later on the way down. I took the sucker way up to Hannegan pass and then booting up through some trees. From where the trail ends and snow starts it should be around 2-3 hours to the summit. No views from the summit, which I heard were great and included great views of Mt Shuksan.
The summit is at 7115 and you can pretty much ski 6' from it, which, in my book, is very choice.
The ski down is pretty mellow, no more than 25 degrees on the summit cone and unless you find some of the cornices and gullies it stays that way. I found some steeper shots here and there and Holly's way up was a lot more fun on the way down than if I had taken the same way I came from. Plenty of options
Google track
She then proceeded to kick my a** on the hike out... man, I had to go at a pretty good clip to keep up with her!
Being a day hike with a glacier to a nice summit, this would be a great mountain to tack on a rest day or acclimatization day if someone was ever in the area tackling Baker by the Coleman-Deming or Shuksan by Fisher Chimney's or North Face
That's it for this installment
Click this for reference
Mt Maude hike - "B" on reference
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150386/mount-maude.html
At 9082ft it is one of the non-volcanic peaks over 9000ft in WA.
Met up with Kevin, who had posted about the trip on cc.com, George and wife Karen, and headed up with the intention of climbing the South shoulder (flat ramp in the sun) route to a col on the south ridge, camping out, summiting next day and descending. We made good time, so we ended up getting to the summit on the first day and camping out on it!
A party in good enough shape could do this as a day hike. The trailhead is at around 3100ft, so its a good elevation gain, but nothing grueling. It is part of the Entiat river cirque and is next to 7 Fingered Jack and Fernow (on right). That day/night, we had views of Baker, Shuksan, Glacier, Rainier, Adams (vaguely), the Olympics (in the waaay distance) and various peaks in the S/C/N Cascades and Kevin spent his free time pointing out as many as he could. Definitively cool that we had such great weather and no one else on the mountain for the summit bivy.
-Icy lakes, SE of Maude
-Kevin near the summit and a gully with a steep 80+ degree topout on the NE side!
-View from the Western shoulder that heads towards 7 Fingered Jack
-Mountain shadow
-Group shot
pics here
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ourbuddies/hike/maude0608/
Olympic Peninsula tidepooling, sightseeing - "C" and "D" on reference
After a 1.5hr wait for the ferry (holiday) and a 30min ferry ride you get to the Olympic peninsula... a world's apart from the rest of the state... and huge.
The GF and I headed to Third Beach (C) on the West side to check out some of the low tide pools. The hike to the beach is a quick 1.3 miles and then if you hike South a few miles on beach and up on land, you reach a rocky beach littered with tidepool life. The amount of sea life here was really amazing. I have never seen that many sea stars and anemones in one place... my gf really digs this stuff. The beach was full of campers from the weekend and so we decided to keep on the move.
We checked out the small town of La Push and then headed all the way back to Hurricane Ridge, a winding uphill road that takes into the Olympic mountains and views of Olympus, the Straight of Juan de Fuca, and black tailed deer... more deer. Didn't get many good pictures up there, day was overcast, but it would usually look like this:
http://www.atpm.com/10.12/northwest-washington-state/images/hurricane-ridge-2.jpg
Ruth Mountain skiing - "A" on reference
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150890/ruth-mountain.html
Saw this mountain on the "Selected Climbs in the Cascades" book. I had one day open this weekend since the GF was working so I decided that I needed to ski something and this would be it. Weather was overcast and I felt lazy, but I saw a lady in the lot with skis and she said that indeed she was skiing Ruth...I'd see her later in the day... so I lay my worries of going solo on a crevassed peak (in late season) and headed up. The mountain usually looks like this, but this day it looked like this. Holly (the skier) told me there was a 20 minute window with a view to the summit, but I was lagging way behind her and missed it.
4 miles of mellow trail hiking along the valley and I was on the snow. Holly and her dog, Lupe, took another better way up with more continuous snow, which she showed me later on the way down. I took the sucker way up to Hannegan pass and then booting up through some trees. From where the trail ends and snow starts it should be around 2-3 hours to the summit. No views from the summit, which I heard were great and included great views of Mt Shuksan.
The summit is at 7115 and you can pretty much ski 6' from it, which, in my book, is very choice.
The ski down is pretty mellow, no more than 25 degrees on the summit cone and unless you find some of the cornices and gullies it stays that way. I found some steeper shots here and there and Holly's way up was a lot more fun on the way down than if I had taken the same way I came from. Plenty of options
Google track
She then proceeded to kick my a** on the hike out... man, I had to go at a pretty good clip to keep up with her!
Being a day hike with a glacier to a nice summit, this would be a great mountain to tack on a rest day or acclimatization day if someone was ever in the area tackling Baker by the Coleman-Deming or Shuksan by Fisher Chimney's or North Face
That's it for this installment
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