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Lace up your boots, heft your backpack, and sample forty-three long
hikes and overnight backpacking trips in Washington's Alpine Lakes
Wilderness - one of the state's most spectacular and rugged
wilderness areas. Veteran hiker and mountaineer Jeff Smoot
introduces you to the area's most scenic and adventurous
expeditions. Stroll among the Enchantment Lakes to Aasgard Pass;
climb to Ladies and Frosty Passes high above Tumwater Gorge on
Icicle Ridge; or hike to Spectacle Lake to find the headwaters of
the Cooper River. Wherever you go you will find deep glacial
valleys, lofty alpine meadows filled with wildflowers, high jagged
peaks, and an abundance of lakes in the heart of Washington's
Cascades.
Lace up your boots and sample sixty-two of the finest hiking trails
the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area has to offer. This rugged,
393,000-acre region at the southern margin of the North Cascades
provides breathtaking scenery and a variety of challenges and
elevations. Choose from easy outings along the Skykomish River,
exhilarating summit ascents near Snoqualmie Pass, backcountry treks
around Stevens Pass, and sublime parkland hikes in the Teanaway
River area. Veteran hiker and outdoors writer Jeff Smoot will
introduce you to these and more.
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.
This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane.
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