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Hemispheres 1/1/2025
0.25 miles, 400 feet I’ve been working up to go out of bounds a Baker for a year or so. I didn’t happen last year because I don’t think I was ready by the time the snow was good enough and Ross and I never really talked about it. I think we brought our backpacks and avy gear once, but weather was bad or whatnot. He suggested New Year’s Eve that the weather was going to be good, and the snow was good, so we brought our stuff. When we got up to the ski area we just started with our backpacks and headed up chair 1 to do some…
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Volcán de Fuego and Acatenango 11/11-12/2024
11/11-12/2024 This whole trip started on the 9th with a meeting at the OX expedition headquarters in Antigua. I immediately got bad feelings. They asked us to give them our IDs to hold for the trip for renting gear, Ross and I literally only rented a sleeping bag liner. I was NOT into giving my ID and I almost argued, but no one else seemed to have an issue with it at least it was not my passport, that would have been a hard no. Ross made a comment about the people in the meeting with us, being “its exactly the type of people I’d expect” which he meant Instagram…
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Stiletto Peak Lookout 10/25/2024
10/25/2024 10.2 miles 3900 ft We were looking for a hike that was about 3500-4000 feet of gain. I really wanted to try and find some larches if they were still larching around. Ross had suggested Stiletto Peak earlier in the week and I got my heart set on it, as I do. There was the idea of possibly trying to scramble the peak but we were going to have to see how it looked when we got up there, I had not read too many reports some saying class 3. Luckily, he was agreeable and we set off about 6:45 AM and got to the Bridge Creek Trailhead off…
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Coleman Pinnacle 8/4/2024
8/4/2024 10.0 miles 1400 feet For some reason I do not have a strava record of this so that annoys me I don’t have the exact numbers. This is one I’ve thought of doing since I started wanting to do summits. I was going to do it myself last year towards the end of the year but I got far enough to were the snow started and I turned around. This starts at Artist point and I was a beautiful day so of course everyone was out. The first mile of Ptarmigan Traverse is always crowded these days but once you get past the Chain Lakes Loop turnoff the crowds…
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Glacier Peak 7/11-14/2024
35 miles 12000 feet Day 1 North Fork Sauk Trailhead to White Pass Camp 9.5 miles 4600 feet. I decided to leave a day earlier than my friends that I was tagging along with. I wanted to give myself the best chances of a summit after coming off of a failing summit attempt of Mount Baker a couple weekends before. I took my time packing at the house and drove to the trailhead and was off right at noon. I knew this was going to be a really long day and probably the hardest day, so I came up with a plan of 1 hour and mandatory break. The first…
