Month: July 2019

  • 20190712 Lily Basin Trail 86, GPNF

    20190712 Lily Basin Trail 86, GPNF

    A scheduling fluke provided me a four-day weekend, and I made tracks for the Goat Rocks Wilderness. Unsettled weather was forecast, I was pretty certain my horrid mood was going to turn into a migraine, and my I made some poor packing choices leading to a rather heavy pack – it was going to be…

  • 20190704 Griffin Mtn North & Allen Mtn South, GPNF

    20190704 Griffin Mtn North & Allen Mtn South, GPNF

    I’ve done it! I’ve completed a hiking route between Longmire, WA and Randle, WA, down to Hwy 12.  Now that I’ve completed it, I’m not happy with the route. More exploration is in order to more closely align my route with the watershed divide.  As you can see on the map below, the route between…

  • 20190701 Kiona Peak, GPNF

    20190701 Kiona Peak, GPNF

    How is it July already? Summer is getting on, and I’m eager to be getting up into the high county. My recent trip up to the PCT at Divide Camp leads me to think July 1 is still too early to be getting up into the Goat Rocks or high Tatoosh, but I’ve still some…