The Anderson mountain adventure run is a yearly tradition the continues to live up to it's reputation of being Adventurous! This year for the first time we scrambled our way to the absolute top of the mountain. Chuck gives a quick recap of our run below. Barbara who's idea it was to do an adventure run this weekend was out sick and missed the run. Though if I remember correctly it was a lot of snow running that did her ankle in last time and with chuckanut 50k around the corner maybe it was a good thing she did, though we missed her company.
Chuck's run report
We did Anderson and it did not look like a nice day when I walked out at 7:30. It was raining hard and warm. On the way down it looked clear everywhere south BUT Anderson. We did a car drop and eventually found our way to the start. The logging has killed the wonderful wooded trail up the West side but it is at least now clear. The benefit of the logging, GREAT VIEWS of the islands and everything West. When we got to the top road it was plowed. Not an inch of snow on it. It stayed that way until the left cut off to the top. On that road there was 2 to 4 feet of snow underfoot that was so firm you barely sunk in. That is with the exception of the holes that Dan and I kept finding.When we got to the top and flirted our way around the top we looked up and saw that we were not at the top of Anderson but about 200 feet up a cliff there it was. We figured, what the hell. We found our way around and bush whacked to the top. We had 360 views from this knob. Dan called dibs for future fort building.We whacked our way down and "easier" way back to the road/trail. It went on fairly well until we ran into more logging, this time on the East side. They did not obliterate the trail but did a nice job of eroding the upper slopes so that the inevitable slides did. Route finding was tough for about 20 min but we made it down.On the way down the sun came out and it heated up into the upper 50's, heat wave.It was a great run and I'm sure Dan will have more to say about it and I hope some great photos.
Thanks Chuck
Chuck's run report
We did Anderson and it did not look like a nice day when I walked out at 7:30. It was raining hard and warm. On the way down it looked clear everywhere south BUT Anderson. We did a car drop and eventually found our way to the start. The logging has killed the wonderful wooded trail up the West side but it is at least now clear. The benefit of the logging, GREAT VIEWS of the islands and everything West. When we got to the top road it was plowed. Not an inch of snow on it. It stayed that way until the left cut off to the top. On that road there was 2 to 4 feet of snow underfoot that was so firm you barely sunk in. That is with the exception of the holes that Dan and I kept finding.When we got to the top and flirted our way around the top we looked up and saw that we were not at the top of Anderson but about 200 feet up a cliff there it was. We figured, what the hell. We found our way around and bush whacked to the top. We had 360 views from this knob. Dan called dibs for future fort building.We whacked our way down and "easier" way back to the road/trail. It went on fairly well until we ran into more logging, this time on the East side. They did not obliterate the trail but did a nice job of eroding the upper slopes so that the inevitable slides did. Route finding was tough for about 20 min but we made it down.On the way down the sun came out and it heated up into the upper 50's, heat wave.It was a great run and I'm sure Dan will have more to say about it and I hope some great photos.
Thanks Chuck
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