Van Life Week 8 l Mt. Rainier & Prusik Peak

First time in Washington! First time in Washington. We just entered Washington. First time. It's cute here. What is cute here? Vancouver, Washington. Got you. Not in Canada yet. We're not allowed in Canada right now. Talk to them. Everybody talks about it. You don't know anything about Vancouver. Everyone I was talking to said, you gotta see the lockdown. Anything you have to do in Washington. There you guys go. We can end van life now. We've seen the Vancouver Clock Tower. Music playing. We are at the sunrise side of Mount Rainier. Pretty awesome. For day two. Tomorrow we hike the Fremont Trail to go to the Fire Tower. Get some good views. Not climbing Mount Rainier this time. But we'll be back. Hopefully next year. To do Liberty Ridge. Since nobody asked, here's what Jordan and I eat. Literally every lunch. Bread. A little mayo. A little Cholula. A little avocado. Some onion. Turkey. Beet sauerkraut. Fermented beets with a little fennel. Fermented food. Good for the gut. Some broccoli and clover sprouts. Look at the color. Perfect. Up here. The Fire Tower. Top of Mount Fremont. Pretty spectacular views. Up in the deck up here. Fun trail. When we go over really bad really cool roads. Our shelf falls out of the van. The little thing that keeps it in comes right out. So every time we go over a big bump one of us has to run back and re-put it in. Didn't lose anything this time. We gotta fix some stuff on the van. We made it to Leavenworth. Which is a Bavarian town in Washington. Gonna go to the mountaineering shop ask a little bit about the routes we're looking to do. And then, explore the town. The classic Bavarian pretzels and friars. In Leavenworth, Washington. Now, as Kristen said, home of the infamous Nutcracker Museum across the street. Lots of super cool places. Bavarian style town. Alright, we are out here in Leavenworth, Washington. Mountain range called The Enchantments. Very pretty. We're heading up towards that wall. That's where we're gonna climb and hop out on. This trail is super hot. But very pretty. There's supposed to be some pretty awesome granite climbing. Getting after it. Alright guys. It is day two of Leavenworth. I didn't capture it on video but yesterday we tried to hike up the Snow Creek Wall to climb Outer Space. We got up there, the rock was pretty hot. So we ended up just doing the hike up and down. And now we're crossing a bridge so it's going to be hard to hear me. Okay, so now we are hiking up to Pressig Peak. Up to Pressig Peak you have to climb Asgard Pass, which ascends about 2,200 feet in elevation and about a mile. So it's definitely a bit of a trek to Pressig. And I think the total overall gains around 5,000, right? Yeah. So it's definitely not an easy approach but everyone says Pressig is awesome. So pretty excited about that. And we're in the Enchantments which is supposed to be really beautiful. And not to jinx it but we still have had the most amazing weather. It's still hot but sunny. It was a pretty brutal uphill. I think we ascended about 3,000 feet three and a half miles. And it's not fun. I think we're close to the lake. Haltrail says this is the flat section. Still going up. And then at about half a mile of flat and then it's the Asgard Pass hike. You can see it. Kolchak Lake. You can see Asgard Pass. It's that right there. Here we are. Starting the pass. This is part of the way up Asgard Pass. We go up a twitch of a mile. It's really pretty. Just looking back down at the lake. We're retiring the lake so we can hike on. Hello. I'm Connie, brother. Not yet. We are almost at the top of Asgard Pass. I think. It is taking forever. 2,200 feet and three quarters of a mile is no joke. We're not at the top of Asgard Pass yet but there's still pretty views. Who knows if that's the top. I don't know. I think we've made it to the top of the pass. We still have a mile and a half to go for camp but beautiful views. Eat some dinner. We're very hungry. Just enjoy the sunset so we can wake up really early. Do some climbing and then down the pass. You can see Presik Peak in the distance. We're going to camp right around the lake. We have a goat friend who is way too comfortable with people and has been circling our camp last night and this morning. We're packed up and ready to go hike to the clock. We don't know what these bugs are but they're quite large and one was in a tent and one was in a bear bag. All of our stuff. It seemed to like to crawl into places which is kind of gross. Mosquitoes are out. In order to get to Presik Peak we have to go up Presik Pass which is not a very welcome site after Asgard yesterday. We'll see. View from Presik Pass. You can see Presik Peak over this way. There's Presik Peak. Cute. Yeah. Alright, just clipped in a piece. I'm leading the cross pitch here up on Presik Peak as it's called. I'm about to do this airy traverse out and around here. Then I cross back up there to do the last pitch up to the summit. Pretty wild views. Pretty good exposure all the way down. That's where we camped over there. There's the rope. There's Kristen. Alright, that's the slabby section. Go up now to the traverse. Alright, there Kristen is. Coming up the third pitch. Pretty high exposure on these moves. She's going to traverse around this pinnacle here and then come meet me. Pretty spectacular views up here on Presik Peak. All the way around. That's pretty awesome. So, got the anchor set in this crack. We're going to scramble on this ledge around to the last couple pitches. The summit's just behind there. The finger crack was fun. Yeah. I'm good. Alright, we're out here on the summit of Presik Peak. Pretty sweet. Just hopped out of the West Ridge. You can see all the way down to the base. Pretty epic views up here. Got to climb a sweet finger crack on the last pitch. Turned into a 5.8, which is nice. And just some pretty awesome views all around. Backpacked in from over there on that pass. That was Asgard. So I have to go back up after we descend, unfortunately. But, it's good stuff out here. We're having fun. Eat some fruit snacks. That's always a good time. And, uh, do some rappelling. Everyone, our goats laid down. There it is. Just chilling in the snow. These things are everywhere. On our descent from there. Standing up there a couple hours ago. Back down to the car. This morning we were on top of that. Making our way up the pass so we can go down the pass. Which, I am dreading. But then, it's all downhill from there. Alright, we made it down to Asgard. So, on top of that. Way down. Around the lake. And then, down 3,000 feet. Alright, it's 8.15. We are done. We went down Asgard Pass. Descended 3,000 feet. In record speed. It's like an hour and a half we went down. And, uh, that last mile felt long. But, we are drinking a fat gelato. And, Jordan jumped in the lake. I forgot to get a video. I made lasagna. We clearly had our priorities. And, my feet hurt. Crescent Peak, in the back.