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Dream up your pnw three day winter banger

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Jenna Frickinfrack · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2019 · Points: 85

Task: Dream up a pnw three day banger that gets you sweaty as heck, occasional butt puckers and multi-sport. 

Setting: January - March, heavy precipitation has set the stage, shitty snow start, WA/OR

Priorities: Climbing first, everything else is second, transition from sport to sport is human powered if possible, safety I guess and joyful suffering.

Assumptions: You have a partner/s, skills, tolerance for Plan B, C, D and Fuuhhh.

Aaron Wait · · North Bend, WA · Joined Apr 2012 · Points: 2,241

I don’t have the tolerance. But in the snoqualmie valley i suppose you could 

- Day 1: climb a bunch of routes at little si.  If its pouring rain you could still do like 6x 5.12.   If its been dry for like 2 days you could do 6x5.11

- Day 2:

      - hike from little si up the middle fork via ccc trail and over to the river via sitka spruce,  where you would have some boats stashed.  Whitewater kayak back to little si trailhead.

      - bike as far up the snoqualmie valley trail and Palouse to cascade trail as you can up to the snow line in the pass (you could probably stash your bikes near the road somewhere).

- Day 3: ski tour up to source lake basin, to the northeast buttress of chair and climb it, and maybe go do tooth.  Or something harder or easier..

Mitch L · · Seattle, WA · Joined Feb 2020 · Points: 0

Get a mythical stable weather window, bike to MRNP, camp, skin up, summit, ski down mt rainier, hopefully don’t die in an avalanche.

Or if you got rare good ice conditions you could spend 3 days climbing and skiing in the tattoosh

Hitting different aspects of mt hood with climbing and skiing would probably be the most realistic and type 1 fun plan

MattB · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Sep 2009 · Points: 55

Drop off in Bend or Sisters, Climb/skirt Mt. Jefferson or Sisters, ski down to Breitenbush Hot springs, raft/kayak down to Eugene ( or Salem?) 

Hmmm... I'm confusing Hot springs names

Not sure it's actually possible, though

Daniel Patrick Smith · · Boise, ID · Joined Apr 2023 · Points: 0

Day 1:

Park at Exit 38 off of I-90. Bike and ski the Iron Horse Trail to Snoqualmix Pass. Bivi

Day 2

Ride the lift to Denny Peak. Ski to Great Scott Bowl. Climb NE Face of the Tooth. Descend South Dace. Ski to Source Lake, then up below the East Face of Chair Peak. Bivi

Day 3

Climb Chair Peak via East Face, NE Buttress, North Face, or West Ridge. Ski down. Bike back to car.

Drederek · · Olympia, WA · Joined Mar 2004 · Points: 315

Day one: Ride from Olympia to lake Cushman. Swim or kayak up the lake into the north fork Skok and camp in one of the many open spaces at Staircase (which appears to be open but currently no public vehicle access). Day two: Head up the Skok to big log and turn uphill to black and white lakes. From there ascend open slopes to the ridge and follow it towards mt Gladys till it intersects the ridge over to mt Henderson, then Skokomish and down to Lake of the Angels for the night. Day three: Up the ridge and across the stone arrow pass to mt Hopper (a more difficult option would be over mt Stone then Hopper) and back to Staircase from first divide. 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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