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    • Ladies Pass Quartet (WA | Cape Horn, Ladies Peak, Snowgrass NE Peak, Snowgrass Mountain) - scramble (July 2024)
    • Old Snowy (WA) - scramble (July 2024)
    • Dog Mountain (WA) - hike (July 2024)
    • Mount Ratney & Mount Bardean - scramble (July 2024)
    • Torrent Peak - scramble (July 2024)
    • Steep Peak - Darkside Peak Traverse - scramble (July 2024)
    • Silvertip Mountain - scramble (July 2024)
    • The Old Settler - scramble (July 2024)
    • Silent Hub Peak - scramble (August 2024)
    • Saint Jacobs Mountain - scramble (August 2024)
    • Mount David (WA) - scramble (August 2024)
    • Goat Mountain West Peak & Table Mountain (WA) - hike (August 2024)
    • Griswold Pass (Tuber Hill, Glacier View Peak, Subatomic Peaks: Baryon, Meson, Muon, Lepton) - scramble (September 2024)
    • Yellow Aster Butte (WA) - hike (September 2024)
    • Mazama Dome (WA) - hike (September 2024)
    • Ptarmigan Ridge - (WA | The Portals East Peak, Coleman Pinnacle) - hike (September 2024)
    • Tetrahedron Peak - scramble (September 2024)
    • Lone Cone & Peak 86 (Tofino) - hike (September 2024)
    • Mount Athelstan ("Pk. 2460") - scramble (September 2024)
    • Excelsior Peak and Cowap Peak (WA) - hike (October 2024)
    • Hollyburn Peak - hike (October 2024)
    • Cheam Peak - hike (October 2024)
    • Blanchard Needle - scramble (October 2024)
    • Debeck's Hill & 4 Lakes Loop - hike (October 2024)
    • Mount Hallowell - hike (November 2024)
    • Anderson Mountain (WA) - hike (December 2024)
    • Sumas Mountain (WA) - hike (December 2024)
    • Gloria (Peak) Lookout - hike (January 2025)
    • JAPOW! & more (Niseko, Sapporo, Kyoto, Tokyo) - snowboarding (February 2025)
    • Mount Fletcher (S3/1400) - snowshoe (April 2025)
    • Mount McNair - snowshoe (April 2025)
    • Lewis Butte (WA) - hike (April 2025)
    • Ruby Mountain (WA) - snowshoe (April 2025)
    • Mount Oleg - snowshoe (May 2025)
    • Carnival Peak - snowshoe (May 2025)
    • Shovelnose Creek Knoll & "Pk. 1956" - snowshoe (May 2025)
    • Tolkien ("Pk. 2188") - snowshoe (June 2025)
    • Mount Ichor - hike (June 2025)
    • Mount Ronayne - hike (June 2025)
    • Mount Athelstan - scramble (June 2025)
    • Ample Mountain - hike (June 2025)
    • Bird Peak (Prov) - hike (July 2025)
    • Gimli Peak - scramble (July 2025)
    • Squamish Headwaters (recon) - hike (July 2025)
    • The Pinnacles (North) - scramble (July 2025)

    *As of 07/27/2025


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    E & SE Asia | E Africa | Europe | N America | Oceania ||> climb, hike, snow, mtb, paddle, nat'l parks

    East & Southeast Asia

    Indonesia - Jakarta (21 photos), West Java (40 photos), Central & East Java (59 photos), Bali (17 photos), Thousand Islands (23 photos), Sunda Strait & Krakatoa (link)


    More photos here! (15 in album)

    Other Asian locales - Singapore, Hong Kong (19 photos), Macau, Manila & Mount Taal, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok (29 photos), Taipei & Taroko Gorge (21 photos), Japan (23 photos), (Tokyo, Kawaguchiko Lake, Hakone/Fuji National Park, Kyoto/Nara, Beppu, Mount Aso)

    East Africa

    Kenya & Tanzania (Nairobi, Maasai Mara, Amboseli NP, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara NP)


    More photos here! (12 in album)

    Europe

    Italy - Sicily & Southern Italy (30 photos), Rome & Vatican City (7 photos), Liguria region, Italian Riviera, San Marino, Florence (8 photos), Venice (19 photos), Veneto & Trentino Alto Adige regions, Dolomites: Summer (70 photos) & Winter (link), Lake Como & Garda

    Other European locales (1980's to 2018) - West Germany (Dusseldorf, Koblenz & Lindau), Innsbruck, Poland: Gdansk, Warsaw & Krakov (13 photos), Tatra Mountains (link)

    North America

    Nat'l Parks, Reserves & Rec. Areas - See National Parks & Western States/Provinces

    Pacific Northwest Cities - City of Seattle (62 photos), Various (Scenery from around the Emerald City), Vancouver (88 photos), Various (Scenery from around The 'Couve)

    Other US Cities - Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Houston, Chicago (56 photos), Los Angeles (33 photos), New York City (below):


    More photos here! (37 in album)


    Mexico - Cabo San Lucas (33 photos), Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Playa del Carmen (below):


    More photos here! (38 in album)

    Oceania

    Australia - Perth & south to Albany, Sydney & north to Brisbane


    More photos here! (22 in album)


    New Zealand - North & South Islands

         > Queenstown & Wanaka


    More photos here! (27 in album)

         > Mount Cook National Park


    More photos here! (23 in album)

         > Fiordland National Park


    More photos here! (19 in album)

         > South Coast, Dunedin and Moeraki


    More photos here! (16 in album)

         > Mount Aspiring National Park


    More photos here! (12 in album)

         > West Coast - Jackson Bay to Punakaiki


    More photos here! (17 in album)

         > Arthur's Pass to Banks Peninsula


    More photos here! (8 in album)

         > Kaikoura and Marlborough Wine Country


    More photos here! (6 in album)

         > North Coast - Tasman Bay to Cook Strait


    More photos here! (11 in album)

         > North Island - Lake Taupo to Auckland


    More photos here! (8 in album)

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