Hundred Highest

Washington’s 100 highest In Search of Higher Ground – Washington’s Top 100 by John Lixvar (Lizard) This essay, reprinted from an earlier Echo, is an excerpt from John Lixvar’s forthcoming book on "Climbing Washington’s 100 Highest Peaks". In order to appease the impatient publishers at Mountaineer Books, Lizard is looking for contributions and/or volunteers to …

Obsession

PEAK BAGGERS: WASHINGTON’S HUNDRED HIGHEST People obviously climb for a lot of different reasons. There is a special group of climbers who climb, at least in part, to check off items on a list. In the late eighties and early nineties there was a legendary group of climbers in Seattle called the “Bulgers”. The Bulgers …

Outdoor Resume

Jerry Scott (206) 784-9815 6260 First Avenue NW (206) 276-5276 (cell) Seattle, WA  98107 jerry@obatik.com Outdoor Experience Twenty-five years of mountaineering in the Cascades and Olympics.  Significant summits include Rainier, Baker, Adams (Adams Glacier), Glacier, Hood, Olympus, Stuart (West Ridge), Bonanza, Goode, Prusik, Shuksan, Eldorado, Liberty Bell, Clark (Walrus Glacier), Constance, Challenger, Luna, Cutthroat (Southeast …

Recreation Log

RECREATION LOG 2024 click here for bike rides 3/17 – 3/26 – New York City 2023 9/26 – 10/17 – Portugal 4/16 – 5/8 – Netherlands 2022 (click here for bike rides) 11/5 – 11/19 – Mallorca & Madrid 9/6-9 – Winthrop 7/19 – 8/11 France & Germany 4/6 – Snoqualmie Pass 4/1 – Snoqualmie …

Book Keywords

KEY WORD SEARCHES. climbing – all books about getting to the top of stuff climb guide – "where to" guides climb technique – "how to" books climb gear – small number of books about hardware climb literature – literature (mainly climbing narratives) about climbing, much of it away from the Cascades hiking – all books …