Getting the lay of the land

By jeff - Posted on 14 September 2009

After traveling the first few weekends since we moved up to Seattle, I finally got to go see what the Cascades have to offer.

 

I went up to Alpental and decided Mount Roosevelt would be asolid objective. As a newby, I got started off on the wrong trail, and ended up bushwacking through 2 miles of blackberry bushes. I finally met up with the trail, scratched and soaked. Being on the trail I felt like I was cruising up past Snow Lake and on towards Gem Lake.

 

By the time I got to Gem Lake (~ 4 miles), I  was within 30 min of the top of Mount Roosevelt but also had to be back to the car in 2 hours to pick up Kristin from work. Even though I had to turn around, I got some excellent views of the surrounding peaks and got some awesome ideas for some link-up projects including Kaleetna Peak, Chair Peak, etc.

Here's some photos from my phone.......working on getting a new point n' shoot.

 

Kaleetna Peak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chair Peak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mt Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another possible traverse project on the Lemah formation.....

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