Silver Star 07/13/2011

This is me on the summit of Silver Star mountain in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest is Washington. John led the hike and he does once or two times a week. We made a loop hike of it and did some buchwacking as well as part of a trail that John built.






Summit register at the top.





Sturgeon rock from the summit of Silver Star.





We parked at Copper Creek and did some bushwacking and climbed Little Baldy and then Silver Star. This is Little Baldy.





There are Indian Pits on Little Baldy on the mountain and the summit.

Rock of Ages 07/10/2011

Karen took Andrew and I up on a hike that we've never been on. The Rock of Ages trail loop.




This is Devil's Backbone. It was exposed and you wouldn't want to fall.





We could cross the stream on this log, but I chose to use the rocks.






Then we came down Oneonta Creek and down to Triple Falls.





Ponytail falls, then back to....





Horsetail falls and to our car. Great hike!

Middle Sister 07/03/2011

Bruce took us on a weekend trip to Middle Sister.





Here is our camp in the snow at the below Hayden Glacier.




We practiced roped travel at our campsite.




Roping up in the early morning. We woke up at 2 AM to get climbing at 3 AM.




I am on Bruce's rope team in the front.







There was an area that required a fixed line and we used prussic to move up the rope.









Me at the summit, North Sister is in the background.

Some of these photos are taken from my team and are copyrighted.