Inaugural Post: The Tatoosh Traverse FKT (Fastest Known Time)
The Tatoosh Mountain Range lies just south of the towering Mount Rainier within the national park. It runs east to west and, per Wikipedia, includes 25 named prominent peaks. The traverse links together 12 of the most prominent ones and then follows a section of the Wonderland trail to return back to the start. I have attempted the traverse twice. The first two times we started at Snow Lake trailhead and ended up bailing at the mid-point down the Pinnacle Peak trail due to exhaustion and slow moving. Continuing on past Pinnacle Trail is very committing due to the remaining 6 peaks followed by the 1600 feet of climbing up the Wonderland trail back to the car, which would occur later in the evening making hitching back to your car an unlikely option. This attempt Brody Hatch and I were committed. We had a better idea of what we were in for. We also had learned from multiple previous time and moral wasting wrong turns which ways not to go. We arrived at the Snow Lake t...