Hiking, Mountaineering, and Climbing Adventures
With the weather changing to sunshine, Jim and I decided it was time to start our climbiing season. Since the snow in the cascades still needed to firm up, we headed to the Olympics. Mt Angeles was our objective. To break up the drive, we decided to make it a 2-day trip. This would also…
Construction of The Three Capes Track was completed near the end of 2015. Having only been open for 3 years, it’s incredible beauty has not spread worldwide yet. But it has quickly risen to number 26 in the top short hikes in the world. Tasmania’s south-east peninsula is definitely world a visit. The track took…
Since the Walls of Jerusalem were off due to smoke and heat, we headed to Hobart for a few days. Hobart wasn’t in our original schedule. Since Hobart is known as a town for foodies, we went out for a nice seafood dinner. The rumors were true. Everything was delicious. We took our full day…
In an attempt to avoid the fires, we headed off to the Freycinet Peninsula on the east coast of Tasmania. We arrived late afternoon, set up at a campground in Coles Bay, and headed off to climb Mt Amos. Mt Amos has the best view of Wineglass Bay, the most photographed bay in Australia. We…
After 4 flights over 3 days, we arrived Tasmania with only one major hiccup, a Costco-size bottle of tequila broken in our luggage. Good thing it was not with our clothes. Brooke and Cal picked us up at the airport in Devonport and we checked into an AirBnB for the night. The next morning, we…
Every year in the beginning of October, Jim puts together a hiking trip to seek out the Golden Larch. These trees only grow in the alpine region around 5000 – 7000 feet. They are only found in the Pacific Northwest. When you hit them in their prime, they are vibrant yellow. There is nothing like…
For Thursday, I had two options: get up in the cold and head back up to the Concord-Lexington col… or, go to the Mazama Country Store, enjoy a cup of tea with a fresh, baked scone, and do some fall hiking. It didn’t take me long to make my decision. After sending George and Jim…
After the grungy climb of Spider Mountain, Jim and I were happy to be teaming up with George to do some alpine crag climbing at Washington Pass. Alpine crag climbing has the appeal of being in the mountains but you get to climb fairly solid rock. Unlike Spider where everything you touched came off in…
Jim and I had hoped to get one more long trip in before the end of September but the weather did not cooperate. With a 3 day weather window, we scrambled to come up with something. We had hope to do Spider Mountain back in July so we had good snow cover and long days…
Jim and I were looking for a fun trip with Kevin and Lisa. Plan A was the Olympic Mountains but when the weather went bad, we headed east. Though the forecast was for smoke, we only had it on our hike in and it never got that bad. We had views the entire hike in.…
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