"Daria Kashcha of PNW Peakbaggers has read a few #HikingWithHadland trip reports and wanted to experience a great hike, but avoid one of my famous Alpine Finishes, so she suggested an Alpine Start. Apparently, she read about my failed attempt at the Mailbox Peak to Dirty Harry’s Peak back in April and was intrigued about the ability to summit multiple mountains, without having to climb them all from a low elevation – hence the intrigue of the traverse at its intended vertical to summit efficiency. I was open to this and agreed to meet an O Dark 5:30 at the trailhead – waking at 3:30AM, wolfing down my precious marionberry pie and coffee earlier than usual, and delaying the 10-100 call. Now realize that I have never met Daria, and have only connected with her online in our PNW Peakbagging Group as a result of many exchanges on mutual objectives, folks we know, etc.- so as a new hiking and climbing partner, there is mutual risk about embarking on an outing with little prior first-hand experience. Choosing a partner for hiking, and much more so for climbing is really an important decision, especially as you may need to rely upon your partner’s skills, mental efficacy, climbing, firs..." — markhadland • May 22, 2021

"DHPT - trail has new signage and is very well marked and the trail is easy to follow all the way to the summit of DHP. The AllTrails directions for DHP trailhead were way off; they were saying go to exit 34 versus the Cairn’s directions for exit 38 that go directly to the DHP TRAILHEAD. The trail has a clear entry point from the road and all the way up is well marked with signage for all of the rock climbing areas. Discovery pass required to park in the area off of exit 38 per the directions from cairn. There are lots of ferns in the lower areas and Lots of blooming beargrass in the upper part of the trail and purple and white snapdragons. It was a complete white-out at the top of dirty Harry’s peak making it impossible for me to find the trail to Dirty Box Peak which I was my planning to hike as well. On the way down I did a side excursion to explore Dirty Harry’s museum and saw the old logging truck. Pretty amazing that they were able to get the old truck up the steep old logging roads." — joeerickson • Jun 22, 2019

"Dirty Harry's Balcony + part way up DH Peak 11/10/15 2500 ft. gain, 7 miles , 7.0 hrs Going up, took right off the road along a path to some climbing rocks. Found a trail under construction that goes by two climbing spots and continues up to Dirty Harry's Balcony. These locations are called Squishy Bell (elev 2050 ft) and Winterblock (elev 2332 ft) (names were on Google map, but not on the Green Trails hiking map). Took DH trail up to junction at 3500 ft, went straight east along another trail another 1/3 mile, where it seemed to end (on the map it continues another 1/3 mile east). Rather than backtrack, I bushwhacked straight west, across a large scree field on the contour at 3800 ft, dropped down to meet the DH trail at 3600 ft. Went up to 3800 ft and turned around at 3pm. Met only one person all day." — markgarrett • Nov 10, 2015