NWAC Snowpack Analysis A weak moisture band spread some light snow northward over the south-central Cascades overnight and early Sunday with little accumulation along with generally light winds and continued relatively low freezing levels. Otherwise, further slow snowpack settlement at relatively cool temperatures continues to gradually decrease the avalanche danger from the recent rather sensitive …
2009 (OTHER YEARS) 12/27 Interurban trail to Aurora Village transit station – 16 miles on Will’s Mountain bike. (final 2009 mileage = 3,558 with 387 on the tandem.) 12/25 Foothills Trail from Sumner to South Prarie and back – 30 miles with Odette on the tandem. 12/24 Interurban trail to Aurora Village transit station – 16 miles on …
East Lake Sammamish Trail trail finally opening March 18, 2006: Full story By Sonia Krishnan Seattle Times Eastside bureau The long-awaited, long-fought opening of the East Lake Sammamish Trail has finally arrived. After nearly a decade of litigation, 11 miles of an abandoned railroad bed open Tuesday as a public trail. It connects Redmond to …
Let’s make a deal: Boeing Field for trails Published in the Seattle Times:October 25, 2006 By Alwyn Scott and Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times staff reporters Call it the local land swap of the century — maybe. Under a deal many months in the making, the Port of Seattle would acquire Boeing Field …
Centennial Trail: The scenic route just got longer March 30, 2005: Full story By Diane Brooks Times Snohomish County bureau An achievement 22 years in the making deserves more hoopla than your standard ribbon-cutting. So when Snohomish County on Saturday officially opens a 10.3-mile section of the Centennial Trail, celebrants instead will lift a …
TRAINING FOR THE 2002 STP Here are the results of our training program: Week Weekly goal Ridden Routes & Conflicts 3/30 30 26 Burke – Gillman (home to Mathews Beach Park and back) 4/6 50 0 (PSIA-NW Spring Symposium) 4/13 70 0 (NYC) 4/20 90 12 Bike to School (Home to Lakeside via Freemont and …
Dutch Miller Gap BOOKLIST Manning – Alpine Lakes. p. 172 Waptus Pass. p. 232 – 233 crest trail. p. 168 Waptus River. p.166 Cooper River. p. 158 Spectacle Lake. p. 222 Dutch Miller Gap / L Bohn Gap (via middle fork trail). “For the main event, follow tread a long mile to a magnificent basin …
DEVIL’S LOOP Between August 18 and August 25, 2001 Will and I circumnavigated Jack Mountain. Our plan for the week was to hike from the Ashnola River road in BC down into Cathedral Park, set up a base camp and explore the Cathedral Lakes basin. In June Art and Jo Freeman (and their 11 year …
PICKET RANGE BOOK LIST Jim Nelson & Peter Potterfield – Selected Climbs in The Cascades. Luna Peak p. 197. “With a hard approach and a 3rd-class route on mediocre rock, the climb of Luna Peak has little to recommend it except the setting and the view – a view into what is probably the …
The Picket Range – August 6 – 13, 2004 The mountains in the Picket Range got good names. Luna. Fury. Phantom. Terror. Challenger. Everybody that writes about them seems to start out by commenting on that. The Picket that they’re named after was Captain George Pickett – a distant relative of mine who became famous …
