{"id":3302,"date":"2023-08-25T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:56","slug":"father-son-adventures-on-mt-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2023\/08\/25\/father-son-adventures-on-mt-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Father-Son adventures on Mt Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each summer I take my boys on a backpacking trip. This summer, Adam got married so was not available for our annual adventure, so Andrew said he was ready to conquer a mountain. Since we don’t have technical mountaineering gear, Mt. Rainier was not an option, so we chose the second tallest mountain in Washington State: Mt. Adams.<\/p>\n

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Andrew and me partway into our ascent of Mt. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the five Washington volcanoes, Mt. Adams reaches 12,276 feet, and from about 8000 feet and above, the terrain is bleak, desolate, only rock and snow.<\/p>\n

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Filtering glacier fed water – so pure, and cold!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first day of the hike, the mountain was shrouded in smoke from forest fires. That night was crazy windy, and c-o-l-d! But the next morning was incredible! God used the wind to blow all the smoke away… hallelujah!<\/p>\n

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Our camp at “lunch counter,” a gorgeous, smoke-free morning!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our two options for ascent were either ice or rock. Since we didn’t have cramp-ons, most of the way we chose rock.<\/p>\n

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Over 6000 feet of elevation gain from trailhead to summit – rock and snow for most of it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After about four hours of rigorous climbing, we reached the summit! Freezing cold, 30 mph winds, we snapped some pix and then headed down.<\/p>\n

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At the summt, Mt Rainier to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the way down, the sun had melted glacier fields enough for us to be able to glissade down a “bobsled run.” In about 45 minutes we descended the distance that it had taken us four hours to ascend! And so much fun! Check out this video:<\/p>\n

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Along the way, we had a furry observer who seemed quite comfortable both with us and his mountain.<\/p>\n

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But the best part of the whole experience was doing the challenging trip with my son, Andrew. The talks we shared, and memories we made, I will treasure for many moons to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each summer I take my boys on a backpacking trip. This summer, Adam got married so was not available for our annual adventure, so Andrew said he was ready to conquer a mountain. Since we don’t have technical mountaineering gear, Mt. Rainier was not an option, so we chose the second tallest mountain in Washington … Continue reading Father-Son adventures on Mt Adams<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}