January 23, 2001 Mr. Kurt MillerWarren Miller Entertainment2540 Frontier AvenueSuite 104Boulder, CO 80301 Dear Kurt: With your father living in the San Juans and you being around Seattle off and on for a long time, you must have heard about The Mountaineers – those guys with the long lines of climbers going up Mt. Rainier in the …
September 5, 1996 To: The Mountaineers Board of Trustees From: Jerry Scott, DB, KC Subject: Red Mountain Accident Investigation _____________________________________________________________ The following is the report from the committee formed to investigate the events on May 19, 1996 when an avalanche hit a party of eleven Mountaineers on an Alpine Scrambles trip …
When you are getting started on a tandem you want to pick rides that don’t involve a lot of traffic or hills or gates so that you can concentrate on how the bike handles and on communicating with your partner rather than on shifting gears or missing obstacles. These rides are good for that. (They’re …
Twelve Mile Loop Ride With A Lot Of Hills There are two alternative routes through Bellevue as part of the Lake Washington Loop. This ride puts them together in a 12-mile loop. I’ve started it at the Bellevue Club because that is where I like to park, but the Wilburton Park & Ride would work …
2006 STP Odette and I rode the STP on the tandem on July 15 & 16, 2006. As we neared the finish line Odette told me that it was the most fun she had ever had in her life and that she wanted to do it again next year. I signed us up online …
ALPINE LAKES 2005, or: Dr. B471l< and the 1337 H1l<3R5 I started off in the spring of 2005 thinking about doing a backpack into the Dutch Miller peaks. My plan was to hike the East Fork Foss trail through the Necklace Valley, scramble up to La Bohn lakes and then walk over to Williams …
GOAT ROCKS LOOP 2004 did not start auspiciously. PASC sold to ACS in January. The euphoria and hard work of making the deal happen were quickly replaced by the struggle to adapt to big-company policies and loss of personal control. I skipped the Phoenician in January to teach snowboarding to adolescents at Snoqualmie Pass. …
RETURN TO HOLDEN: LAKES AND LADIES BACKPACK August 23, 2003. Hot. Dry. Seattle’s been almost sixty days without rain. Big fires in BC and the Pasayten. Labor Day’s a week away. School’s about to start. Will and I take off for another extended backpack. This year Odette wants to come with us… Will’s big enough …
ENCHANTMENTS REDEUX Will and I, together with Art and Arthur Freeman, spent August 3 – August 12, 2002 in the Enchantments. We got to the Leavenworth ranger station to pick up our permit at about 9:15 on Saturday morning. We stopped at a bakery and were on the trail by 10:30. We took breaks every …
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 …
