Winter Biking Scenes

It's that Time of Year...

Actually, it's always that time of year. I am that dork who has her short and long term goals posted on the refrigerator year round. But since this is a hiking blog and I know some of my handful of like-minded readers enjoy stuff like this, here's my 2014 goals list.

1. Buy a house by spring. Cough.
2. Run the San Francisco Marathon on July 27th.
3. Start the Court of Master Sommeliers program in March (now that I passed my WSET Advanced!) and get certified.
4. Summer Hiking (let's face it, the rest of this stuff is just filling time until the snow melts).

       The big hikes:

• July - lead return trip to Mount Adams w/Steve and Helena
• Summer Shasta climb, nontechnical Clearcreek route 
• August Enchantments Traverse
• August Climb Mount Daniel 
• August/Sept Tank Lakes via Necklace Valley
• Aug/Sept Mt Baker/Shuksan long weekend: Ptarmigan Trail to the Portals; Chowder ridge or
  Chain Lakes Trail above Bagly Lakes; Heliotrope Ridge
• Aug/Sept/Oct Squamish/Garibaldi long weekend trip

      Any of these:

• Partial Bailey Range Traverse, Olympics
• September Rachel Lake/Rampart Ridge/Alta tarns - requires fording creek
• Mt Hood Hogsback
• Tattoosh Peak/ Plummer, Rainier
• Spray Park, Mt Rainier - off trail to alpine lake below Observation Rock 
• Yellow Aster Butte, Shuksan
• Vesper Peak scramble - very late season
• Matterhorn, Wallowas
• Indian Bar, Mt Rainier
• LaBohn Gap
• Snow caves on Mount Hood
• Middle Sister, Bend 
• Gothic Basin/ partial scramble up Gothic Peak? late season
• Maple Pass Loop, North Cascades
• Goat Lake, North Cascades 
• Barrett Spur, Mt Hood - late season
• Minotaur Lake, Stevens Pass
• High Pass
• Hidden Lake Peak
• Spectacle Lake backpack

I've got 2015 planned, too, but I'll spare you.

Random Smattering Of Images To Show That I'm Still Alive

Crater Rock attempt. Great day but respiratory infection makes you prone to AMS, and I could walk maybe 20 feet at a time. MSR snowshoes worked great on the steeper parts but those damn straps drive me bananas. Partner made it to Triangle Moraine, where there was ice and wind. Allow 4 hours unless you're a BEAST.

Better than being at work. Practiced self arrest and had some mac n cheese.

Beach babe. Haystack Rock with out-of-town family.

Turkey day bike ride with the hubs, in which we were surprised to learn that after 1.4 million trips to Sauvie Island there are still things to discover.

Bay bridge at sunrise, Halloween. back again to take the WSET Advanced.

MSH

Cathedral bridge in No Po.

Back in business, hitting the trails again despite some ACL issues. I need a smaller cassette on the Cannondale - why don't I listen?