Last week we had spring for a couple days and Ava and I managed to capitalize on it. (Side Note: the forecast for this Wednesday calls for another foot of snow in the mountains). We took Thursday off and left Wednesday night to go camp as far up as we could drive on the Cascade River Road. On the drive up, we saw a black bear wandering across the road, the first I'd ever seen in Washington.
The next day we got up early in attempt to climb and ski Sahale Peak. We encountered numerous obstacles on our way up the road to where you can normally park this time of year. The first obstacle was the second bear of the trip. Then there was ample avalanche carnage.
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| Road covered in avy debris from a heinous avy cycle this winter |
It took us far longer to walk up the last three miles of road than we expected, then we were yet again bogged down in avalanche chunder as we ascended to Cascade Pass.
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| Cascade Pass |
We managed to gain about 4,000 of the 6,000 ambitious feet we hoped to gain to reach Sahale's summit. We had fantastic weather and views and a great ski down!
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| J-Burg and the beautiful North Cascades |
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| Sahale Peak |
As we were retracing our route back down the road, over and under the multitude of trees, we saw yet another bear! Apparently they're just out of hibernation and, hence, very active right now.
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| Bear #3 |
2 comments:
any photos of buckner from your vantage? (this is Ian)
Sorry Ian, no Buckner photos.
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