Climbing Washington's Mountains
100 Classic Summit Routes to Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains
2nd Edition
Published on 1. October 2021
448 pages
978-1-4930-5644-6 (ISBN)
Description
This select guide includes detailed, easy to follow directions to climbing 100 of Washington's most visible, historically significant, and interesting mountains with summits over 5,000 feet. From introductory level off-trail summit hikes and scrambles to multi-pitch alpine rock and high volcano climbs, this guide is suitable for beginning scramblers and alpine rock climbers as well as more experienced climbers. Blending all types of climbing at all levels of difficulty, you'll find routes to popular scrambling peaks such as Mount Si, classic alpine rock peaks such as Prusik Peak, and to big volcanoes including Mount Rainier. Fully revised and updated, this book has been praised by scramblers, alpine rock climbers, volcano climbers, and trip leaders alike as being an accurate, user-friendly guide with superb, easy-to-follow route descriptions and drawings, to the summits of the mountains that people actually want to climb.
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Edition
2nd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
Illustrations
142 BW Photos, 40 Maps
File size
32,59 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-5644-6 (9781493056446)
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Climbing Washington's Mountains
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Jeff Smoot is an outdoor adventure writer and photographer primarily known for his hiking and climbing guidebooks including Falcon titles Climbing Washington's Mountains, Rock Climbing Washington, and Best Climbs Cascade Volcanoes. Jeff's book, Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14, a historical narrative and memoir chronicling rock climbing in the 1980s, was published in 2019. He has written for Outside, Climbing, Rock & Ice, Backpacker, and Mountain magazines. Jeff is a founding member of Friends of Camp Long, a volunteer group that supports youth programs at Camp Long in Seattle, Washington, and the founder of Mountain Fest at Camp Long, an annual celebration of Seattle's rich climbing history and culture. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Using This Guide
- Peak Selection
- Chapter Overview
- About the Climb
- How to Get There
- Route Description
- Options
- Precautions
- Permits
- Climbing Route Classification
- Equipment
- Mountain Hazards
- Wilderness Safety
- Mountain Weather
- When to Climb
- Wilderness Regulations
- Wilderness Permit Requirements
- Zero-Impact
- Human Waste Disposal
- Trailhead Theft
- In Case of Emergency
- Map Legend
- The North Cascades
- 1 Mount Baker
- 2 Mount Shuksan
- 3 Tomyhoi Peak
- 4 Ruth Mountain
- 5 North Twin
- 6 Jack Mountain
- 7 Black Peak
- 8 Liberty Bell Mountain
- 9 Silver Star Mountain
- 10 North Gardner Mountain
- 11 North Hidden Lake Peak
- 12 Snowking Mountain
- 13 Eldorado Peak
- 14 Forbidden Peak
- 15 Sahale Peak
- 16 Mix-upPeak
- 17 Buckner Mountain
- 18 Goode Mountain
- 19 Mount Logan
- 20 Bonanza Peak
- Mountain Loop and Index Area
- 21 Glacier Peak
- 22 Whitehorse Mountain
- 23 White Chuck Mountain
- 24 Mount Pugh
- 25 Sloan Peak
- 26 Cadet Peak
- 27 Monte Cristo Peak
- 28 Columbia Peak
- 29 Kyes Peak
- 30 Del Campo Peak
- 31 Vesper Peak
- 32 Mount Forgotten
- 33 Three Fingers Mountain
- 34 Mount Pilchuck
- 35 Mount Persis
- 36 Mount Index
- 37 Gunn Peak
- 38 Merchant Peak
- 39 Baring Mountain
- 40 Mount Howard
- 41 Clark Mountain
- 42 Mount Maude
- 43 Seven Fingered Jack
- 44 Mount Fernow
- Alpine Lakes Wilderness
- 45 Ingalls Peak
- 46 Mount Stuart
- 47 Sherpa Peak
- 48 Colchuck Peak
- 49 Dragontail Peak
- 50 Prusik Peak
- 51 Cannon Mountain
- 52 Cashmere Mountain
- 53 Big Chiwaukum
- 54 Snowgrass Mountain
- 55 Big Jim Mountain
- 56 Granite Mountain
- 57 Mount Si
- 58 Big Snow Mountain
- 59 McClellan Butte
- 60 Granite Mountain
- 61 Kaleetan Peak
- 62 The Tooth
- 63 Chair Peak
- 64 Snoqualmie Mountain
- 65 Lundin Peak
- 66 Red Mountain
- 67 Kendall Peak
- 68 Mount Thompson
- 69 Alta Mountain
- 70 Chikamin Peak
- 71 Lemah Mountain
- 72 Chimney Rock
- 73 Summit Chief Mountain
- 74 Mount Hinman
- 75 Mount Daniel
- The South Cascades
- Mount Rainier National Park
- 76 Mount Rainier
- 77 Little Tahoma Peak
- 78 Pinnacle Peak
- 79 Unicorn Peak
- 80 Cowlitz Chimneys
- 81 Tamanos Mountain
- 82 Fay Peak
- 83 Observation Rock
- 84 Echo Rock
- 85 Old Desolate
- 86 Sluiskin Mountain
- 87 Mount Adams
- 88 Mount St. Helens
- 89 Old Snowy Mountain
- 90 Gilbert Peak
- The Olympic Mountains
- 91 Mount Olympus
- 92 Mount Washington
- 93 Mount Cruiser
- 94 The Brothers
- 95 Mount Constance
- 96 Mount Anderson
- 97 Mount Deception
- 98 Mount Clark
- 99 Mount Angeles
- 100 Mount Carrie
- Appendix A: Transportation Information
- Appendix B: Permits and Passes
- Appendix C: For More Information
- Appendix D: Further Reading
- About the Author
