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Recent Trip Reports & Pages

Recent Trip Reports
 (reverse order)
To see all of my trip reports in chronological order, go to my Trip Report Chronology.

Other Recent Additions
  • John Scurlock and I complete our quest to photograph (by air) the Highest Hundred summits of Washington. See Photoset 34 (Apr 16, 2013)
  • Aerial photos (and some videos!) of spring in the North Cascades: Photosets 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 (Mar-May 2013)
  • Western bluebird flight photos on my songbirds page. (Mar 2013)
  • Mebee Pass Fire Lookout page. (Feb 2013)
  • Aerial photos (and some videos!) of wintery North Cascades: Photosets 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 (Nov-Mar 2012-3)

Upcoming Adventures!


Lots of ambitious climbing adventures planned for this coming summer....

JUNE 18-30, 2013:
  • SIERRA (CA): with Mark Thomas
    • Third Pillar of Dana
    • Incredible Hulk, Red Dihedral
    • Palisades Traverse ++
JULY 5-11, 2013:
  • NORTH CASCADES Adventure (WA): with my sister Jenny
    • Eldorado area scrambling and glacier romping or Washington Pass rock climbing 
JULY 15 - AUG 11, 2013:
  • EUROPE (SWITZ/ITALY):
    • Walker's Haute Route, a 200 km hike from Chamonix to Zermatt with parents
    • Matterhorn, Hornli Ridge
    • Dolomites, climbs TBD with Michael Stanton
AUGUST 15-30, 2013:
  • WADDINGTON area (BC): with Dan Aylward, Chad Kellogg, Sarah Hart
    • Combatant, Skywalk Buttress
    • Tiedemann
    • others TBD
IF THERE'S TIME:
  • NORTH CASCADES (WA):
    • Juno Tower, Clean Break
    • Pasayten climbing trip
    • Mebee Pass
    • Silver Lake, Fisher, Arriva
    • Vesper, North Face

Then back to school....

Upcoming Presentations/Workshops


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

Aerial Photo Calendar

Every Christmas I make a calendar for my friends and family. This year the theme of the calendar is "Aerial North Cascades," containing 13 carefully selected high-quality aerial images of Washington's rugged and beautiful glaciated North Cascades. Each month is represented by an aerial photo taken during that month. Here is a sampling of my aerial photography.

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: Early Winters / Liberty Bell
FEB: South Hozomeen
MAR: Hidden Lake Lookout
APR: Glacier Peak
MAY: Shuksan
JUN: Baker
JUL: Bonanza
AUG: Baker
SEP: Dome Peak
OCT: Wildfires '12
NOV: Mt. Stuart
DEC: Southern Pickets
(JAN): Rainier
+++: Mystery peak on cover

As a challenge, if you can name the summit on the cover photo below I will offer you (for the same price) a special 13-month calendar containing Mt. Rainier on the extra 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
OCT
10-11
2009
TANK LAKES, via Necklace Valley (Autumn beauty)
Category: Washington      Trip Report #: 77
Partner: Sue Abegg
Elev: ~5,800 ft

Although I don't normally include non-climbs on my webpage trip reports, the Tank Lakes area is deserving of a page. On this weekend overnight, my mom and I hiked up to Tank Lakes to enjoy the autumn colors and beautiful October lighting. An arctic system had moved in bringing bringing frigid winds and sub-freezing temperatures, but this created clear skies for some night photography and helped keep me awake at night to take photos. The following page gives several photos from our fun weekend overnight. Hiking with my mom is always a special and enjoyable experience.


**Click here to see my trip report for a spectacular wintertime snowshoe to Tank Lakes in Feb 2010.


Overview

The Lakes Then and Now
Some Panoramas I took
Tank Lakes in August 1982 (taken by my parents), in August 2006 (taken on a family backpacking trip), and in October 2009 (taken on this trip). The glaciers on Chimney and Overcoat have changed more than the trees have!
Getting There
Tank Lakes is in the Alpine Lakes wilderness. There is no maintained trail to Tank Lakes, but the lakes can be reached via easy cross-country from a few different directions. This area is often passed by parties doing variations of the (1) Alpine Lakes High Route, in which case the approach typically starts on the Lake Dorothy Trail off the Miller River Road off HWY 2 and comes up to Tank Lakes after Chetwood Lake and Iron Cap Pass. Two popular one-day approaches are (2) via Necklace Valley on the East Fork Foss River Trail off of the Foss River Road off of HWY 2 and (3) via the Dutch Miller Trail off of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Road off I-90.

(More complete route details are given in my Feb 2010 trip report for Tank Lakes.)



Photo Trip Report
Afternoon and Evening at the Lakes
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A cold autumn view of Summit Chief, Chimney, and Overcoat across the valley with a fresh dusting of snow.
Another cold autumn view across the largest of the Tank Lakes.
Exploring the beautiful plateau. I love the autumn lighting.
Exploring the beautiful plateau.
Exploring the beautiful plateau.
Exploring the beautiful plateau.
Sunset over Iron Cap Mtn and our bivy sacs on the granite slabs.


Night Photography at the Lakes
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Star trails and twilight above Chimney and Overcoat.
(6 min, f 10.0, ISO 100)
Colorful star trails above the bivy sacs, with a faint glow of the Milky Way.
(16 min, f 7.1, ISO 400)
Moonlight and star trails.
(7 min, f 8.0, ISO 400)
Moonlight and star trails.
(15 min, f 8.0, ISO 400)
Morning at the Lakes
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Sunrise on Chimney and Overcoat from our camp.
Difficult to leave this place to go back to problem sets and text books....



Autumn colors and ice formations
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A tunnel of brilliant leaves on the trail.
Cool ice formations.
Red hucklemberry leaves growing in a handcrack.
Finger-like ice formations.
4 trees.
More ice formations.
And more.
A shelter in Necklace Valley surrounded by autumn colors.
More autumn brilliance.
And more.

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