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After climbing Sahale on Sat Aug 2 my friend Autumn and I chatted about climbing Rainier up the DC route. Well the weather gods did their magic and on the Sunday we had a 3 day clear sky forecast for the next 3 days of Mon Aug 4 to Aug 6. So on the Monday...

Over a weelk in late March and early April 2008 I skied the Haute Route from from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland with a group of friends from Seattle. We experienced a bunch of different snow conditions from hard ice to knee deep powder...

The Monty Python Perspective on climbing. Enjoy    ...

Ed, Sandy (Ed's wife) and I climbed Rainier Sat July 28 to Mon July 30 via Camp Muir -> Ingram Flats -> Emmons Glacier as the DC route was rerouted (see below). My pics here. Ed's pics. I said hi to Mike Gauthier (Chief Climbing Ranger) at...

On Sat July 14 Ed, Joe, Peter and I did a quick climb up Concord Tower in the beautiful North Cascades.  Concord Tower North Face Pics Enjoy the pics....

On Sat July 7 and 8 a group of six (Kirk, Jill, Claire, Rainer, Mike, me) head up climb Baker up the North Ridge. At 6000' we chatted with Kurt the climbing ranger on North Ridge route conditions. He remembered my Baker Coleman group from the previous...

On Sat 6/30 a group of 11 (Ed, Rainer, Bartek, Anita, Teresa, Sandeep, Tony, Lee, Jola , Phuong-Cac and me) in 4 carpools met at the Glacier Ranger station at 9am. The plan was a 2 day climb up the Coleman route. We signed into the climbing register,...

A group us (Peter, Claire, Teresa, Karen, Brett, me) had a fun day out climbing the Tooth South Face. We left the TH before 7am and found snow from Source Lake to the pass. The rope teams were quick and the first team made the summit in around two...

Pics from the trip up Ingalls East Ridge.    ...

On Sat Ed, Dan and I signed in at the ranger station in Randle and were greeted with “are you really going to climb” … 1st sign :-) We got stopped a bunch of miles from the trail head by deep snow on road and a large tree across the road … 2nd...

On Thu May 10 Ed, Joe, Ken and I made a trip up to British Columbia, Canada to make an attempt on Mount Garibaldi.  Click here for pics...

On Sunday Garett and I decided to do a walk from Paradise to Muir. It was his first time up there. Click here for pics.   We left Seattle at 5:15pm and found no traffic on 405 or 167. With a mandatory Starbucks stop in Puyallup for a coffee we...

As week ago (before the rain) a group of us (Mike, Eva, Matt, me) went out for a day of cragging at Exit 38 Deception Crags. We met at 10am and headed up to Write Off Rock. During we also climbed at We Did Rock and Hall Creek Rock.   On Write...

A bit of fun for friday with this polar bear ice climbing cartoon on YouTube. The original can be found at rgstudios.com Enjoy....

Welcome everyone! Today I noticed that the traffic on http://SummitStories.com has been picking up. The web site is receiving climbing visitors from across the globe specifically: Brazil, Santiago Chile, British Columbia Canada, UK  and...

Forty feet off the ground your feet scream with pain as you jam them into the narrow crack and stand up onto them with your full body weight. Next you slide your hands into the crack and find that glove like hand jam and you think all is well. A group...

A group of us (Paul, Helen, Priscilla, Jena, Al, Bartosz) drove over to Leavenworth to go rock climbing at Peshastin on Sunday. Priscilla mentioned that Peshastin has great friction. As we drove from west to the east of the cascades the weather got increasingly...

The Mountaineers will host the Banff Festival 2006 World Tour in Seattle. "The films range from funny to thoughtful, seat-gripping to heart wrenching. Pst films have included rock-climbing dogs, international soccer matches in the Himalayas, solo treks...

Warren Miller's new ski movie "Off the Grid" is coming to town (Seattle) in November. Check the film tour schedule for your area. Get great deals on lift tickets for Apex, Big White, Silver Star, Sun Peaks, Whistler Blackcomb, Tamarack Resort, White...

On Sunday a group of us (Al, Priscilla, Bartosz, Jolanta, me) when over to Vantage (2.5 hours drive east from Seattle) to a do a little cragging after the alpine season. The Feathers area was not too crowded and being in the shade made for a great...

I went to the REEL ROCK event at the Neptune Theater last night. While waiting for the doors to open, a mini-mountaineers climbing reunion occured with Paul, Jennifer, Aaron, Eva, Rod, Joe, Anne and Karl coming together. I am sure I missed a couple...

REI Seattle has an event on Saturday Sep 23 to see and meet climbing legends. Tickets are $10 at the Seattle store. Legens: Peter Potterfield (Moderator), Jim Wickwire, Lou Whittaker, Peter Athans, Todd Burleson, Brenda Walsh Update: Definitely worth...

It is a fun climb with exposure at times. Belaying on the narrow ridge (around 2 feet wide) with 400-500’ feet of exposure and some downclimbing between the gendarmes and notches. We hit snow on the approach trail within 30 minutes of leaving the TH....

The original plan was to climb the Tooth however Jim and I received beta that the conditions on the Tooth were icy and that the area had avalanche danger so we switched the climb to Yellow Jacket Tower. Meeting place was the Snow Creek trail head at 9am....

Fissile Peak is an an exciting ice climb. The peak is 8 miles SE’ish of the Whistle/Blackcomb ski complex in BC, Canada. The approach day was a continuous 8 miles up from Whistler and then a short drop down to Russet Lake. On climb day we dropped down...