- Located in Washington
- High point: Mount Adams (12,276’/3,742 m)
- Wilderness areas: Glacier View, Goat Rocks (partial), Indian Heaven, Mount Adams, Tatoosh, Trapper Creek, William O. Douglas (partial)
- Established: 1908
- Website
Two Girls Roving: Day 13 – Columbia River Gorge & Hood River Fruit Loop
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 4, 2024 Alas, it was…
Two Girls Roving: Day 12 – Ruby Beach & Very Big Trees
Two Girls Roving: The tale of a 16 day, 3522 mile road trip to the Pacific Northwest in celebration of my friend’s college graduation! Follow along for all the shenanigans through thousands of miles, eight National Park Service units, night after night of camping, and even some coastal backpacking! September 3, 2024 Our final day…
Washington Escapades Part 2: Burley Mountain Lookout, Suntop Lookout, and Mount Rainier National Park
A sign of a good vacation is when you come home even more exhausted than when you left, right? My latest adventure to Washington sure felt like that! The main objective of the trip was summiting Mount Adams, but my bestest adventure bud, Eric, and I were just not just going to stop at a…
Washington Escapades Part 1: Fort Vancouver, Beacon Rock, Bonneville Dam, and House Rock
A sign of a good vacation is when you come home even more exhausted than when you left, right? My latest adventure to Washington sure felt like that! The main objective of the trip was summiting Mount Adams, but my bestest adventure bud, Eric, and I were just not just going to stop at a…
Redemption on Mount Adams
2 years and 8 days after it all going wrong the first time, I jammed my ice axe into the summit of Mount Adams. That above is the TLDR version… for those wanting more detail, here we go! Mount Adams is one of five volcanoes in Washington, and is part of the greater Cascade Volcanic…
Mount Saint Helens – Third Time’s a Charm!
Oh man, where do I even start on this one?! (It is going to be long, so get comfy!) To say it was a long time coming with a lot of weird anxiety around it would be an understatement. Leading up to it I was 0 for 2 on attempts in 2022… heck, never even…
Learning to Fail on Mount Adams
“No one can call themselves an experienced mountaineer unless they have turned back unsuccessfully from some of their summit attempts. Climbing is a game of knowing when to press on and when to bail, and these choices can mean the difference between great success and needless death. It is a misnomer, of course, to call…
PNW Teaser – Part 1: Portland and Mount Saint Helens
Hey, remember airplanes and traveling for work? Well, I suppose some people never gave up those items, but the last time I was on an airplane I was leaving a meeting at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta where I watched them initiate emergency operations for that new coronavirus circulating… it was January 2020.…
The Adventuring Heidi 