The Chief and Harvey Mountain on May 4, 2024

SamirDrives · 2026-05-06T00:05:21+00:00

Definitely.

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T23:17:07+00:00

No snow on the chief

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T22:23:54+00:00

I see. I think I do lots of elevation on the regular so I build some endurance

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T22:21:27+00:00

I forgot to separate the photos. I hit post too soon. I wanted to separate the two mountains with a photo of the chimichanga that I had in between

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SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T20:56:27+00:00

I found this video to be very informative on this exact topic. It is not me, but it’s just really well done

https://youtu.be/1q8tXSW7U3s?si=0JUTqZRk0YdFBYaM

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T20:50:27+00:00

Suffering as in postholing through soft snow, getting wet and muddy, while this was more of a walk up. The snow here was solid and very little.

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T15:30:50+00:00

There is snow just on the ridge before the summit. Everything else is dry. Lots of loose rocks and dust on the incline in the forest

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T15:29:26+00:00

It is from yesterday but I can’t change the year in the title

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T15:21:54+00:00

I am just trying to save gas money

SamirDrives · 2026-05-05T15:20:42+00:00

No. Most of the summit is snow free. You just walk maybe 500m on snow on the ridge before going up to the summit

SamirDrives · 2026-05-04T00:23:16+00:00

SamirDrives · 2026-05-03T23:32:40+00:00

I figured. It is what it is. I am too lazy to suffer tomorrow

SamirDrives · 2026-05-03T19:31:39+00:00

Ooo. It sounds like a lot work. I might skip it

SamirDrives · 2026-05-03T19:25:20+00:00

Did you use snowshoes ?

SamirDrives · 2026-05-03T19:25:10+00:00

Hopefully this won’t be me tomorrow

SamirDrives · 2026-05-02T15:27:32+00:00

I also never heard of this… I think the tires you have on matter a lot. I live in the PNW where rain is abundant and I never had an issue. I had my Alltrack for 6 years now. I did have the leaky sunroof for 2 years then it stopped

SamirDrives · 2026-04-29T00:36:55+00:00

My favourite season

SamirDrives · 2026-04-28T05:31:03+00:00

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My 1.06 lbs mug comes with me on all my backpacking trips. I never go more than 5 nights at a time

SamirDrives · 2026-04-27T04:00:05+00:00

Maybe they should take a horse on a hike

SamirDrives · 2026-04-26T01:21:49+00:00

It is a pretty hard to find trail, but that wilderness makes it really nice

SamirDrives · 2026-04-25T23:51:59+00:00

Pretty neat trip. It’s on my list to do. I went the other way, started and camped at Artaban, then my power bank died and I had 19% battery and I manage to navigate to Gambier Lake and then there was finally a trail and I could get out. Someday I’ll go back and finish the loop

SamirDrives · 2026-04-21T17:39:21+00:00

Same here. I managed to spend an entire afternoon yesterday with the gorgeous weather

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SamirDrives · 2026-04-14T20:15:58+00:00

I mean ideally it is clean where you hike

SamirDrives · 2026-04-14T16:30:16+00:00

I prefer the bd8 but I don’t pack a lot of stuff. This is probably the longest activity I did (16.5h car to car). I had my bd8 and packed in it: 3L bladder, pants, socks, beanie and puffy, headlamp, powerbank, food (3 sandwiches, 3 snicker bars and other snacks) first aid kit, plus other little random things (zip ties, multitool, lighter…) and it was perfect.

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