"I had originally conceived of this loop to get to Ice Lakes without taking the burned-out Entiat Valley, with the bonus of needing only one car. That original iteration departed via the Rock Creek (1509) or Basalt Peak (1515) trails. Reports of terrible post-fire jackstraw lodgepole on Basalt Peak were not appealing and my dear friend Tanner was able to join with a second car, so we opted to depart from the Basalt Pass trail (1530) instead, shaving off a few miles and a 1000 ft. Aside from Ice Lakes, our primary objectives were to climb Mt. Maude and Seven Fingered Jack (7FJ), two of the tallest non-volcanic peaks in Washington (both top 9000 ft.) Day 1 (13.2 miles, 7149 ft): The trail to Basalt Pass was logged out and in good shape. We walked over Peak 6351 and Peak 6754 (Basalt Ridge), pausing frequently to admire the sea of peaks to the south dramatized by a light smoke haze in the valleys. Small plumes from the two fires near Lake Wenatchee were visible, but smoke would not become an issue until later in the trip. We reached the Garland Peak trail around lunchtime. Much of this portion of the ridgeline is a moonscape of light pumice and alpine buckwheat, with a lot of..." — TynanRammGranberg • Aug 31, 2022

"I had originally conceived of this loop to get to Ice Lakes without taking the burned-out Entiat Valley, with the bonus of needing only one car. That original iteration departed via the Rock Creek (1509) or Basalt Peak (1515) trails. Reports of terrible post-fire jackstraw lodgepole on Basalt Peak were not appealing and my dear friend Tanner was able to join with a second car, so we opted to depart from the Basalt Pass trail (1530) instead, shaving off a few miles and a 1000 ft. Aside from Ice Lakes, our primary objectives were to climb Mt. Maude and Seven Fingered Jack (7FJ), two of the tallest non-volcanic peaks in Washington (both top 9000 ft.) Day 1 (13.2 miles, 7149 ft): The trail to Basalt Pass was logged out and in good shape. We walked over Peak 6351 and Peak 6754 (Basalt Ridge), pausing frequently to admire the sea of peaks to the south dramatized by a light smoke haze in the valleys. Small plumes from the two fires near Lake Wenatchee were visible, but smoke would not become an issue until later in the trip. We reached the Garland Peak trail around lunchtime. Much of this portion of the ridgeline is a moonscape of light pumice and alpine buckwheat, with a lot of..." — TynanRammGranberg • Aug 31, 2022

"Trillium* Linkup of Washington, Pershing, and Ellinor in a day. With Scott Y. Special thanks to Myles for many days of effort making this route work out. 10k of vert in 12 miles in 17hrs. What a ton of work but the remoteness and knife edge ridges and multiple rappels made this worth it. FKT/OKT" — castrode • Aug 13, 2022

"July 9, 2022. Started at 3am. Snow starts 1.3 miles from the trailhead, put on microspikes and used them until switching to crampons at Lunch Counter. Windy (30mph) up to Pikers and it slowed slightly towards the summit. Reach the summit at 8:45am. Descended at 9am. Solid snowpack on the way up and slushy back down at Lunch Counter. No snowshoes needed. With Mac. " — runningvegan • Jul 9, 2022

"February 6, 2022. Started at Marble Mountain Sno Park at 7:30am. 3:50 to the summit. 2:10 back down. Started out with snowshoes, but I did not need them. Switched to crampons when I hit the rocks and the real climbing began. Kept the crampons on the rest of the day. Could have switched to microspikes after descending the steep stuff, but I did not want to bother with stopping. Beautiful bluebird day!" — runningvegan • Feb 6, 2022