Trip Reports

7.30am: Our trip started off with introductions and a gear check. I was to be guiding the mother and daughter team, Katharina and Elin up the Easton Glacier climbing route with an extra 2 days of mountain skills training. Chloe, a Miyar guide, was joining us to shadow the trip....

Glacier Peak (Dakobed) is the oft-forgotten and the most geographically distant of Washington’s five major volcanos. It was nearly three years after moving to Washington State that I even heard about Glacier Peak. ...

All eight team members met at the Brickyard park and ride at 7am on Friday July 27th. Getting to finally meet everyone in person after weeks of planning was great; Jian, Yanyan, Casper, Hua, Colin, Rahul, and guides Simon and Matt. We did some magically rearranging to fit three days’ worth of climbing gear into two tiny cars and we headed north to the trailhead. ...

We summited the most remote volcanic peak in Washington - Glacier peak, via the Disappointment Peak Cleaver route! My Gaia GPS tracked 9,846 ft elevation gain over 34.9 mi in 3 days. A great time venturing into the Glacier peak wilderness area. ...

In 2015 I climbed Island Peak and a more technical peak called Kyajo Ri with Karma Sherpa, Da Tenji Sherpa, Jeff Crow, and Joe Meyer. Da Tenji had summited Everest from the north and the south, so it was no surprise that he progressed up the ice-covered terrain above 20,000 ft. with what appeared to be minimal effort. ...

Machame is a regulrly used route to the summit and in this expedition there were no significant deviations from the Machame itinerary publicized on Miyar Adventures website. As ...

The seminar turned out to be our future guide “Sandeep” talking about his new adventure company,Miyar adventures and how they were taking a few people up Kilimanjaro. ...

Nina Patel an avid adventurer who was part of the group has narrated the trek in a series of beautiful snaps and poetic narrations. ...

At about 5500 feet the precipitation changed from rain to snow. We welcomed the change, as our jackets were nearly all wetted out from rain and sweat. At base camp we hurriedly established our tents in the middle of a squall. ...

Ongoing roadwork had only served to increase the anticipation as we drove through the park on our way to Paradise. At the overnight parking lot Kirk, Ben and I met the teams who had been preparing for months for this trip. ...

Though closer to Seattle than Mount Rainier, it’s limited and difficult access keep it off of many mountaineer’s radar. Requiring over 30 miles round trip to its summit and back, our GPS logged 42, and over 11,000 feet of vertical gain it is the most exhausting of the Cascade Volcanoes. ...

This is one of those trips.The bug hit me as I was sitting in the Victoria Theater in San Francisco for Reel Rock back in 2012. I was completely mesmerized…I was watching Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk climb Mt. Meru in India. ...