Lisa was my climbing buddy in the Olympics. We did several multi day trips to climb the remote Olympic peaks. Here’s a picture from our 5 day trip that included Christie, Queets, & Seattle. This is celebrating her birthday on the hike out. Lisa was a strong climber, not real fast, but very steady; the day we climbed Queets was 17 miles and 7,000’ gain.
We did another big cross country trip over 4 days and climbed Diamond, LaCross, Steel & Hopper. This is one of my favorite pictures, Lisa is really tired, and mentally crushed on our ascent of Diamond, as we still had 1,000’ of elevation to go with the sun going down! We summated at dusk and hiked back down in the dark, getting to camp at 11pm. She was a trooper.
On our trips, Lisa and I would talk about our teenage kids and the difficult time we were going through with them, would they amount to anything, and were we good parents?! What a difference a few years makes, getting over that teenage year bubble! We couldn’t be prouder of our kids!
-- Dan Lauren
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