A list from TrailsTV.com:
Eagle Falls / Eagle Lake
Emerald Bay – Vikingsholm
Glacier Meadow Loop
Loch Leven Lakes
Lower Lola Montez Lake
Marlette Lake
Shirley Lake
Summit Lake
Tunnel Creek Station
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Nude Mountaineering Society
In 2006 a climber disrobed on the summit of Mt. Everest. Ang Tshering, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, was not amused.
I assume the highest nudist in history was inspired by the example of George Mallory.
Howard Somervell (left), without trousers, Arthur Wakefield (centre) without boots and George Mallory (right) naked after fording a stream en route to Everest. Mallory was known by team members to favour nude bathing!
Artist / photographer: George Finch. Date: 1922 – source
Mallory was the inspiration for the Nude Mountaineering Society. Here’s the President, the unfortunately named Hank Wangford.
Wangford in Yosemite – Strippers with altitude – Guardian
Actually, Wangford is a stage name for an English comedian and country and western songwriter. His actual name is Dr. Samuel Hutt.
(via Get Outdoors)
Chimney Pond Trail, Mt Katahdin, Maine
Aaron Doody points out our list of the best hikes in North America is missing Mount Katahdin, in Maine’s Baxter State Park.
He’s right. We’ve added it.
The hike up Katahdin, preferably via the Chimney Pond Trail, to Cathedral, and across the Knife’s Edge climbs one of the most prominent peaks (4,292 ft) in the Eastern US, and has been blessed with a glacial history that’s created several steep-walled cirques and the corresponding alpine lakes.
The fact that the peak is located in a north woods wilderness region adds to the allure, because access to services (such as the gift shop on top of Mount Washington) is non existent. A week long stay in Baxter Park, listening to the call of the loons (and buzzing of mosquito’s in the ear) will help anyone get back to nature.
Thanks Aaron.
Knife’s Edge, Mount Katahdin
Katahdin – SummitPost says the summit is even higher: 5267ft / 1605m
Chimney Pond Trail – Katahdin Wiki
day hiker dead on Mt Rainier
We climbed Mt. Adams in the Cascades in beautiful weather. But our guide Matt insisted we haul survival gear up to the summit including parkas, emergency sleeping bag, stove, fuel.
On the descent Matt suggested a future trip up to Camp Muir on Rainier. No doubt he’d insist we carry survival gear yet again.
Here’s why …
Wikipedia
Park rangers say the three — two men and a woman — planned a day hike Monday to Camp Muir, which stands at about 10,000 feet feet on the 14,410-foot mountain and has a shelter. However, a wintry storm that blew in pinned them down near that location. Park officials say the storm dumped 2 feet of snow and created 5-foot drifts at Paradise and generated winds of 70 mph at Camp Muir.
At 3:30 a.m. Tuesday the trio, which dug a snow shelter to avoid the brunt of the storm, managed to get through to park rangers with a 911 emergency call; but because of heavy snow and near zero visibility rangers were unable to safely initiate a search at that time. At about 7:15 a.m. one member of the party found his way to Camp Muir and was able to direct a search team, made up of climbing guides and park rangers stationed at Camp Muir, to the party’s location near Anvil Rock.
All three of the stranded hikers were under shelter at Camp Muir by 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, though all suffered hypothermia and frostbite and one was unconscious and unresponsive and ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
The man who died was the husband of the surviving woman. All three were in their early 30s and from Bellevue, Washington. They all were experienced mountaineers who had visited Camp Muir in the past and enjoy hiking on Mount Rainier. …Day Hike Turns Fatal at Mount Rainier National Park – National Parks Traveler
That site has a Category called: Missteps in the Parks
Nepal trek in November?
A few years ago, my Canadian hiking buddy Grant Assenheimer and I did an 11-day trek on the infamous Huayhuash Circuit in Peru. It was superb.
… the remote, forbidding Huayhuash range was made famous when Joe Simpson & Simon Yates climbed Siula Grande in 1985. The book & film Touching the Void were both hits. …
… Punta Coyoc pass 5490m (18,012ft) …
Grant is in Kathmandu right now deciding on an early November hike. So far he is leaning towards Annapurna Base Camp off the Annapurna Circuit. Alternately, one of the less touristy Everest hikes.
Leave a comment below if you will be in Nepal. October / November are the best months. Grant is looking for trekking partners.
He’s happy to hike independently. Or to hire a guide.
evidence – atop the Mt Adams summit
Proof positive.
Video of my Funtastics Adventure Racing Team topping out on the second highest peak in the Cascade Range, Washington State.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
photos – flickr
Pacific Crest Trail – movie
There have been a number of trailers posted for the upcoming documentary Tell it on the Mountain, “tall tales and alluring lore from the Pacific Crest Trail”.
Here is the latest.
Trailer – Tell it on the Mountain from TellitontheMountain on Vimeo.
(via Take a Load Off)
… on the High Sierra Trail, California
Very, very high on my list of “next hikes” is this one. The photos on this trip report make me … jealous.
camp just below Franklin Pass
Last week I spent seven days hiking a loop through Sequoia National Park, going in along the famous High Sierra Trail and looping back into the tucked-away Mineral King from the Kern River Canyon. Our route took us through some incredible scenery (is there any other kind in the Sierra?), including a night of cowboy camping at Precipice Lake, the site of one of my favorite Ansel Adams photographs. It just so happened that the night coincided with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower …
trip report – The High Sierra Trail (and more!)
(via Two-Heel Drive)
oh Man, I missed Lake O’Hara
… Just browsing some photos from Michael Glaser and Ron Shewchuk on Facebook. Looks like I missed a brilliant weekend at the most gorgeous spot in the Canadian Rockies.
Dang.
This was the annual trip there for my Canadian hiking pals.
Want to go? Check our Lake O’Hara information page.
trip report – climbing Mt. Adams, Washington 2008
A die hard hiker, I consider mountaineering the pursuit of egotistic masochists. While climbers are suffering in their tents at base camp, hikers are enjoying every minute of their adventure far below.
So it was with some reluctance that I signed on with my Adventure Racing Team (The FARTs) on a volcano climb. My only previous experience in the Pacific Northwest was an unsuccessful attempt to scramble Mount St. Helens some 10yrs ago.
Our trip report was inked by Chief FART Evangelist Dave Adlard … who had not carried a backpack nor slept on the ground in many years:
… Lisa, Morgen, Rick, Matt and Dave set out for Mt. Adams, which at 12, 272 feet, is the second highest peak in the Cascades, just behind Rainier. …
… Mt. Adams is notoriously windy and cold, but we lucked out with high temps, and essentially no wind on Saturday, and as we went to bed, the full moon was coming up — to quote Matt, it was an epic evening! …
… just after 5:00 am, we headed toward the summit, some 3000 feet and 2 miles up. …
… Overall, it was a great weekend, and we learned a TON! We hope to join the Mountaineers ourselves and take several of the classes, so that we can attack Rainier and some of the other peaks next season. It is an addictive hobby, as there is something really special about reaching the top, with the great efforts required. It was also a heckuva workout! …
Dave Adlard – Funtastics Adventure Racing Team – — and so they pressed on
Dave’s right. It was a fantastic weekend. And I’m tempted to do more peaks. Especially Rainier.
Or … hopefully the urge will subside. And I’ll hike the Wonderland Trail around Rainier, instead. (I assume there must be a mountain called Rainiest, as well.)
And my favourite of Dave’s photos. A basecamp tent shot with rockwall behind.
The highlight of the trip for me was sledding down the mountain on our butts!
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