33 reports · 1 countries
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USA · Olympic Mountains
Out my front door, three blocks down 30th Street, is a trail that takes me to the shores of Commencement Bay and from there, in the distance, rise the Olympic Mountains. I'm not alone with my view; a …
2016 · Jason Hummel · 5 min
USA · North Cascades
The Forbidden Tour, pioneered in the late 1990s, has become renown by Washington State's tight knit backcountry ski community as a cascade classic. Not only does this route pierce the heart of North …
2016 · Jason Hummel · 5 min
USA · Cascades (Glacier Peak Wilderness)
With 894 square miles of wilderness, it's not hard to discover corners of Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness I've ignored. That being said, I've seen a lot of it. Months of my life have been spent …
2015 · Jason Hummel · 5 min
USA · Cascade Range
Populated by the ghosts of miners, Bigfoot and the words of Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, the Cascades are a land of stories and folklore. By the earliest Native American legends the mountains were …
2012 · Sakeus Bankson · 6 min
USA · Cascade Range (Picket Range)
"Where am I?" I'd wonder, once again awakening cold and shivering. Looking up, I see the specter of my nightmares looming overhead, beguiling me with her contours of ridge and arcs of slope. I try to …
2012 · Jason Hummel · 6 min
USA · Markagunt Plateau
The desert southwest of the United States is a magical slice of planet earth. Millions of years of uplift and erosion have sculpted some of natures most bizarre and brilliant features. Steep canyons …
2012 · Zach Crist · 4 min
USA · Cascade Range (Mount Baker)
The Mt. Baker Highway is a serpentine two-lane that flows, at first, through dense forest and then impatiently rises from the raging Nooksack River, switch-backing 1,000 vertical meters to treeline …
2012 · Dan Kostrzewski · 5 min
USA · High Sierra (Mammoth, California)
You're only a virgin once so we had to go big. Especially considering the man of the hour. The task at hand was taking World Cup champion turned freeskier Daron Rahlves out on his first ever …
2011 · Seth Lightcap · 6 min
USA · Haines AK
The knife-edge ridge leading to the summit of Rainbow peak arcs into the sky that overlooks a brilliant blue ocean and the small town of Haines, Alaska. My ski partner, Sunny and I have been looking …
2011 · Reggie Crist · 4 min
