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In our beloved Alpine Lakes Wilderness, there is a small region called Enchantment Lakes, considered the most beautiful mountain valley in the area. Pale granite, countless lakes connected by little streams and waterfalls, golden larches in autumn, and . . . → Continue reading Enchantment Lakes. Ten Years Later.
We got back a week ago from a week-long hike through some of our beloved Alpine Lakes country — places that, for a substantial part of the route, very few people ever visit, but which are absolutely . . . → Continue reading Alpine Lakes High Route Traverse and a Side Trip to La Bohn and Mt. Hinman
Glacier Peak. Part One: The Summit The morning of our return home greeted us with fog. No — FOG. . . . → Continue reading Glacier Peak. Part Two: The Foggy One
From the year before last. After our hike up Dickerman Peak, we finally came to the realization that we hadn’t been to Glacier Peak for twelve years, and somehow that just wasn’t right. It’s a beautiful . . . → Continue reading Glacier Peak. Part One: The Summit
From the year before last. Dickerman Peak. Overall, it’s a pleasant but fairly straightforward half-day hike. Most of the trail winds through forest, but near the summit (which still reaches 1,746 meters / 5,728 feet) it emerges . . . → Continue reading Dickerman Peak
I decided to show this little flower separately as well. It really is just so cool. Tropaeolum polyphyllum. In Chile and Argentina (where it is endemic to the local mountains) it is called “soldadito grande de la cordillera” – the great little soldier of the mountains. . . . → Continue reading Great Little Soldier of the Mountains
Since I’m practically an amphibian — and a thermophilic amphibian at that — and the weather nastiness on San José left us with a few spare days, we decided to drive around the hot springs. The ones . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Hot springs
Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Summit The snow fell for 36 hours. We lay in the tent and diligently tried to sleep. Simply to avoid going nuts. Visibility outside . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Descent
Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp January 6 the wind died down, and we moved camp up to 5100. The German-Australians had gone down, freeing their tent places, and we settled onto one of them. We . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Summit
Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp January 1 — a day off. Sacred, obviously. Especially when acclimatization calls for it. We woke up unhurriedly, had breakfast, our companion decided to commit to rest with full seriousness, while we felt lazy — so we went . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp |
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