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Upcoming Adventures!


June - Sept:
 Climbing!

Possible destinations: 
City of Rocks,
Sawtooths, 
Utah,
CND Rockies, 
Bugaboos,
High Sierra, 
Tuolumne, 
Yosemite, 
Wind Rivers,
North Cascades, 
elsewhere...

Email me if you are interested in planning some climbing adventures. 
I need partners!

Recent Trip Reports & Pages

Recent Trip Reports
(reverse order)

AUG, 2014:

JULY, 2014:
  • IDAHO:
    • Elephant's Perch with Jessica Todd & Geoff Georges / Scott Smith & Mick Wright
JUNE, 2014:
SPRING, 2014:
PREVIOUS TRIP REPORTS:

Trip Report Chronology


Other Recent Additions
(reverse order)
  • Some photo additions to my Bird Photography pages after a day at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah  (June 2014)

Upcoming Presentations/Workshops

No presentations or workshops are currently scheduled, due to a heavy school load this year.

Washington Weather Forecast for Climbers

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My friends Luca and Ephrat have created a wonderful mountain weather matrix which shows the 5-day NOAA point forecast for various locations in the US. As they are Californians, they mostly have CA locations, HERE. Since I cannot run .php on googlesites, they have generously created a PNW-oriented version HERE, for which I provided the data points for various climbing locations in Washington. This is very handy for seeing multiple weather forecasts all at once to help choose the weekend climbing destination. Gone are the days of obsessive refreshing of a slew of NOAA point forecast tabs!

Aerial/Night Photo Calendar


Every Christmas I make a calendar for my friends and family. This year the theme of the calendar is "Fire Lookouts of the North Cascades," containing 13 carefully selected high-quality images of fire lookouts perched on rugged Cascades summits. The selection encompasses a variety of aerial and night and other unique photos taken during all seasons of the year. Here is a page devoted to fire lookouts of WA. 

The calendars are large format and professionally printed by Apple. Contact me at sabegg@gmail.com if you are interested in acquiring a calendar(s). I order the calendars from Apple on an individual basis and get them directly shipped to your address. The calendar can be ordered at any time, and can be even be customized to span any range of months (for example, June 2013-June 2014).

Photos by month: 
JAN: Lookout Mountain LO
FEB: Sourdough LO
MAR: Three Fingers LO
APR: Pilchuck LO
MAY: Goat Peak LO
JUN: Slate Peak LO
JUL: Three Fingers LO
AUG: Hidden Lake LO
SEP: Three Fingers LO
OCT: Mebee Pass LO (before & after restoration)
NOV: Desolation LO
DEC: Winchester LO


(I also still offer a 2014 version of last year's calendar, where each month is an aerial photograph of a Cascades summit taken during that month.)

Quick Link to Night Photography


Here's a quick link to my page on night photography, which gives lots of photos as well as a technical discussion on the physics of night photography.

Contact Info

Hi! My name is Steph Abegg. Please see my Who is sTePh? page for more details.

Please contact me with questions, requests, or comments. I am happy to share route beta or sell photos on request.

email: sabegg@gmail.com
JULY 29
to AUG 3
2003
PTARMIGAN TRAVERSE 2003, North to South (plus a climb of SPIRE POINT)
Category: Washington   Trip Report #: 2
Partners: Marty, Sue, and Jenny Abegg

One of my all-time favorite and memorable family backpacking adventures.

Click on the photo to enlarge. This is a photo of the peaks of the Ptarmigan Traverse, from the summit of Forbidden Peak. Visible in the foreground is Mixup Peak and two important saddles to the left: Cache Col and Gunsight Notch. Next behind is Spider Mountain on the left, then the Middle Cascade Glacier and Mount Formidable. Finally on the distant left is Dome Peak with Glacier Peak far behind.


My Favorite Backpacking Trip

I have done so many hikes I can't remember nearly half of them, but one I will never forget is the Ptarmigan Traverse of the North Cascades. This is a high alpine traverse involving daily glacier travel through rugged North Cascades majesty. In 2003, my family (dad, mom, sister, and I) did this beautiful 6-day hike. This page shows some of my photos from our 2003 family adventure. I also provide links to more recent adventures on the Ptarmigan Traverse.


Links to More Recent Adventures on the Ptarmigan Traverse

In 2009, I did the Ptarmigan Traverse from the South to the North.
The 2009 trip report is much more detailed and has more photos.

Go to 2009 trip report.

Also, in August 2007, my mom and I did a 2-night backpack to just past Kool-Aid Lake on the Ptarmigan Traverse. The second day I climbed Mt. Formidable.


Photos from our 2003 Family Adventure on the Ptarmigan Traverse
DAY 1: My sister Jenny climbing up to Cache Col.
DAY 1: Mountain goats at Kool-Aid Lake.
DAY 1: Campsite at Kool-Aid Lake.
DAY 2: Approaching Mid Cascade Glacier.
DAY 2: Camp at Yang-Yang Lake.
DAY 3: South Cascade Glacier.
DAY 4: Sliding down a snowfield into White Rock Lake, on our rest day at White Rock Lakes.
DAY 4: Looking at the next day’s traverse of Dana Glaicer, taken from White Rock Lakes.
DAY 5: Pink monkey flower on hillside traverse.
DAY 5: Traversing Dana Glacier.
DAY 5: Nighttime view from tent on Itswoot Ridge.
DAY 6: Tiger lily on trail.


Climbing Spire Point

On Day 5 of the Ptarmigan Traverse, my dad, sister, and I climbed Spire Point via the East Face (4th to low 5th). Click the photo below to see a short trip report for our climb of Spire Point.
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