Dutch Miller Books

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 …

WTA Cispus Pass

Sep 08, 2001 by LVHDLM Pacific Crest #2000,Lilly Basin #86,Goat Rocks,Old Snowy,By-pass #97,Mount Curtis Gilbert,Ives Peak,Snowgrass #96,Goat Ridge #95 – The South Cascades 7-9 September 2001. Backpacked from “Berry Patch” trailhead at end of F. S. 2150 to a campsite on the Lily Basin Trail in the area named “Alpine” on maps. The trail is …

Goat Rocks Books

Goat Rocks Book List Fred Beckey – Cascade Alpine Guide – Columbia River to Stevens Pass: overview p. 69, sketch map p. 70, Ives & Old Snowy p. 71, Curtis Gilbert p. 22, North Fork Tieton River Road p. 328, South Fork Tieton River Road p. 330, Goat Rocks section of the crest trail p. …

Goat Rocks 2004

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.  …

Holden Books

First, here is a web site: HOLDEN VILLAGE. Then, here are some books: Woodmansee, Mike – Trekking Washington, Seattle, The Mountaineers, 2003. “Across the Great Cascades and Back” (pp 134 – 143) covers much the same territory. (He would have you start at the Suiattle River trailhead, hike to Image Lake and over Cloudy Pass …

Devils Loop Books

Beckey, Fred. Cascade Alpine Guide 3: Rainy Pass to Fraser River. pp 196 – 200 for climbing route descriptions of Crater, Jack and Jackita mountains. pp 185 – 193 for really excellent commentary on geography, geology, and history of the area. Canyon Creek trail on p 387. McMillan Park – Jackita Ridge trail on p …

Spider Gap Books

Beckey, Fred. Cascade Alpine Guide 2: Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass, Climbing and High Routes. Railroad Creek Trail on page 366. Phelps Creek Trail on page 363. Lyman Lake Trail on page 359. Climbing in this area is covered mainly on pages 166 – 171 (Red Mountain, Chiwawa, Dumbell, etc.) and on pages 173 – …

Pickets Books

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 …

Suffering

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 …

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 …