Distance: 5.0 mi.Elevation Gain: 2750 ft. After skiing Diamond Peak and hanging out with some friends in Bend on Saturday, we wanted a shorter ski day to…… Read more “2021-04-18 Mt. Bachelor”
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2021-04-17 Diamond Peak Ski
Distance: 10.1 mi.Elevation Gain: 4800 ft. Avalanche danger is Washington was looking pretty high over the weekend and there were even some special warnings issued due to…… Read more “2021-04-17 Diamond Peak Ski”
2019-08-31-09-02 Eagle Cap Mountain
Distance: 31.3 mi.Elevation Gain: 6800 ft. With a valuable three day weekend over Labor Day and no good weather to be found in Washington, we decided to…… Read more “2019-08-31-09-02 Eagle Cap Mountain”
2018-09-08-09 Wallowa Peaks Loop
Distance: 24.8 mi.Elevation Gain: 11,400 ft. After waiting for a better forecast and not getting it, I ended up abandoning plans to climb in the north cascades…… Read more “2018-09-08-09 Wallowa Peaks Loop”
2016-07-16-17 Middle Sister
Distance: 17.6 mi.Elevation Gain: 5600 ft. Having done South Sister the year before, we were itching to do some more Oregon volcano hiking. We started from the…… Read more “2016-07-16-17 Middle Sister”
2015-07-03-04 South Sister and Broken Top
Distance: 19.6 mi. Elevation Gain: 8200 ft. We met up with our friends who were living in California at the time (they’ve since moved back to Washington!…… Read more “2015-07-03-04 South Sister and Broken Top”
2016-06-05 Mount Hood
Distance: 7.5 mi.Elevation Gain: 5400 ft. We got started at 1 AM after “sleeping” briefly in the Hood parking lot. Luckily the snow still reached the lot,…… Read more “2016-06-05 Mount Hood”
2016-05-21 Black Butte
Distance: 4 mi.Elevation Gain: 1600 ft. We were intending to do some fun climbing at Smith Rock on this day but we woke up at the campground…… Read more “2016-05-21 Black Butte”
2018-04-22 Friends Peak!
Distance: 3.5 mi.Elevation Gain: 1040 ft. After our amazing ski of Mt. McLouglin and going on a Bender (lots of beers in Bend) we woke up with…… Read more “2018-04-22 Friends Peak!”
2018-04-21 Mt. McLoughlin Ski
Distance: 10.6 mi.Elevation Gain: 4622 ft. I had previously been up Mt. McLoughlin in Southern Oregon twice, once in June with lots of snow and once in…… Read more “2018-04-21 Mt. McLoughlin Ski”