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Mt Saint Helens: Backcountry Conditions Report
Inside a different sort of white room: below 5,000' on Mt St Helens. This ski tour started out as so many in the Pacific North West: warm and wet. With a perpetual low pressure forecast, we weren’t...
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Davenport, Rhalves & McMillan to Ski Ring of Fire
The always impressive Mount Rainier. Photo: Summitpost.org The Whole Foods sponsored, all-star team of Chris Davenport, Daron Rhalves and Jess McMillan is set to begin their Cascade volcanoes slay fest...
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Mt Hood, Cooper Spur: Backcountry Conditions
The author rippin some wind buff at 9,500' on Mount Hood's Cooper Spur. Photo: Matt Paul. This tour turned out to be a blessing. With a bleak, rainy forecast we planned on climbing in thick cloud and...
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Next on the Cascade Volcano Tour: Mount Adams
Mount Adams North Side. Lava Glacier and North Ridge. Photo: climbing.com. After a few down days waiting out weather, it looks like we’ll finally get a crack at Mount Adams. This mountain promises...
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Mount Adams: The Big Hurt
Matt watches lenticular clouds build on Mount Adam's Pinnacle above the Adams Glacier. Mount Adams is a soul-crushingly large mountain. Even giant Mount Shasta and towering Mount Rainier feel small...
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Mount Rainier: On Deck…
Mount Rainier's West Side. Photo: Bob's Mountain Web Page. Well, high pressure has been keeping spirits high in the Cascades. The next objective on the tick list is Mount Rainier. Rainier boasts 36...
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Mount Rainier: 10,500′ Descent
Scouting the ascent route from the Muir snowfield. Photo: Eric Seel. Mount Rainier is always an exciting ski. The tallest, most glaciated peak in the Cascade Range has no simple hiking routes to the...
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Mount Baker: A Ski Dream
Matt skinning toward Mount Baker. Photo: Zeb Blais. Five hours after our descent of Mount Rainier, we were on the road again. By the wee hours of the morning we were sleeping in the Subaru near the...
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Shuksan: The End of the Road for the Cascade Volcano Tour
Mount Shuksan from the Northwest. What a long strange trip it’s been. We expected to deal with troughs and onshore flows and have to squeak our tours in on the back end of storm cells for most of the...
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Chris Davenport Ring of Fire Tour: Success!
The Davenport McMillan Team finishes the Ring of Fire Tour on Mount Baker. Photo: Ted Mahon. Well, Chris and Jess McMillan got all they wanted and then some. They picked off 15 volcanoes (counting the...
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