"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

"From Terrence's WTA Report: We are the Mountain Goats, and today, one of us (Terrence, 12) climbed Mount Washington in the Olympics. The forest road is windy and a little rough, but not too bad. The trailhead is off of a turnoff, right before the Upper Mount Ellinor trailhead. The beginning of trail is very steep, but pretty easy to follow. The trail is kind of of like Snoqualmie Mountain and Old Mailbox. Straight and no switchbacks. You start in the forest, and in about a half mile enter a pleasant meadow. After .7 miles, you get up to a scree field where you can begin to see your destination above. After carefully going through the scree field, route finding gets more difficult as you enter a steep ravine. Be sure to stay to the left as you go up, and it's a bit easier. Lots of rocks and roots to climb up, and the scrambling begins here. At the top of the ravine, you enter another meadow with a couple of paths. We stayed to the left again, and eventually we reached a steep headwall/ravine where the first class 3 scrambling began. The rock was a bit wet and mossy, and it's very loose. All the rocks from higher up the mountain funnel down into this gully where ..." — BryHong8 • Nov 17, 2018

"Phenomenal outing up Washington. Sean and I were the only ones besides 3 goats that greeted us on the summit. On the way down we jumped a crack into a long glissade. Great experience with insane views. " — MatthewWinterberg • Jun 7, 2017

"On Saturday I had some afternoon plans in Shelton, so Colin and I decided to hit up the Olympics for some early morning peak-bagging. Thanks to some recent beta from a few <a href="http://www.nwhikers.net">NW Hikers</a> Colin and I were able to make a confident attempt at Mount Washington. We drove through Hoodsport around 6:30 as the morning light crept in. After turning left on road 2419 a small coyote(or possibly a fox?) leaped onto the road and began running up it as if we were in hot pursuit. We followed behind in amusement as it sprinted up the road with no apparent intention to head for the woods on either side. After a minute or so we backed off to give the road-running coyote a chance to leave the road, but when we continued on a few minutes later we quickly caught up as it caught it's breath and then finally decided to retreat into the brush. I misread the trail's location just north of the junction for road 014 to the Mount Ellinor Trailhead. Instead we took the turn, realizing the mistake as we stopped to admire the pre-dawn light just before arriving at the trailhead. Conditions: The last 2 miles of forest road had an inch of compact snow and ice in the ruts. Mic..." — Jeb • Dec 7, 2013

"Great climb. We use ice axes up a steep chute on the way up. Final 100 feet we use a fixed line due to snow. We then traverse over to Mt. Ellinor before heading down mountain." — mtngoat • May 5, 2001