Route: Washington Bulgers (WA)

Location
Washington, US
Description

This is the set of the hundred highest mountains in Washington, and is the premier peak bagging objective in the Pacific Northwest.

1.

Mount Rainier

14,411

2.

Mount Adams

12,276

3.

Little Tahoma

11,138

4.

Mount Baker

10,781

5.

Glacier Peak

10,520

6.

Bonanza Peak

9511

7.

Mount Stuart

9415

8.

Mount Fernow

9249

9.

Goode Mountain

9200

10.

Mount Shuksan

9131

11.

Mount Buckner

9114

12.

Seven Fingered Jack

9100

13.

Mount Logan

9087

14.

Jack Mountain

9066

15.

Mount Maude

9040

16.

Mount Spickard

8979

17.

Black Peak

8970

18.

Mount Redoubt

8969

19.

Copper Peak

8964

20.

North Gardner Mountain

8956

21.

Dome Peak

8920

22.

Gardner Mountain

8898

23.

Boston Peak

8894

24.

Silver Star Mountain

8876

25.

Eldorado Peak

8868

26.

Dragontail Peak

8840

27.

Forbidden Peak

8815

28.

Oval Peak

8795

28.

Mesahchie Peak

8795

30.

Fortress Mountain

8760

31.

Mount Lago

8745

32.

Robinson Mountain

8726

33.

Colchuck Peak

8705

34.

Star Peak

8690

35.

Remmel Mountain

8685

36.

Katsuk Peak

8680

36.

Sahale Peak

8680

38.

Cannon Mountain

8638

39.

Mount Custer

8630

40.

Ptarmigan Peak

8614

41.

Sherpa Peak

8605

42.

Clark Mountain

8602

43.

Cathedral Peak

8601

44.

Kimtah Peak

8600

45.

Mount Carru

8595

46.

Monument Peak

8592

47.

Cardinal Peak

8590

48.

Osceola Peak

8587

49.

Raven Ridge

8572

50.

Buck Mountain

8560

51.

Storm King

8520

51.

Enchantment Peak

8520

53.

Reynolds Peak

8512

54.

Martin Peak

8511

55.

Primus Peak

8508

56.

Mox Peaks

8504

56.

Dark Peak

8504

58.

Cashmere Mountain

8501

59.

Klawatti Peak

8485

60.

Mount Rahm

8480

60.

Horseshoe Peak

8480

62.

Big Craggy Peak

8470

63.

Lost Peak

8464

63.

Hoodoo Peak

8464

65.

Chiwawa Mountain

8459

66.

Argonaut Peak

8453

67.

Tower Mountain

8444

68.

Sinister Peak

8440

68.

Dorado Needle

8440

68.

Mount Bigelow

8440

68.

Little Annapurna

8440

72.

Emerald Peak

8422

73.

Dumbell Mountain

8421

74.

Greenwood Mountain

8415

75.

Mox Peaks-Northwest Peak

8407

76.

Saska Peak

8404

77.

Azurite Peak

8400

77.

Pinnacle Mountain

8400

77.

Luahna Peak

8400

80.

Blackcap Mountain

8397

81.

Spectacle Buttes

8392

81.

Courtney Peak

8392

83.

Martin Peak

8375

84.

Lake Mountain

8371

85.

Golden Horn

8366

85.

West Craggy

8366

87.

McClellan Peak

8364

88.

Devore Peak

8360

89.

Amphitheater Mountain

8358

90.

Snowfield Peak

8347

91.

Austera Peak

8334

92.

Mount Saint Helens

8333

92.

Windy Peak

8333

94.

Cosho Peak

8332

95.

Big Snagtooth

8330

96.

Mount Formidable

8325

97.

Abernathy Peak

8321

97.

Switchback Mountain

8321

99.

Flora Mountain

8320

100.

Tupshin Peak

8320

Eric Gilbertson's TR details the peaks & criteria:

http://www.countryhighpoints.com/washington-hundred-highest-bulgers/

The name “Bulgers” was the name of the original group of mountaineers to identify and climb all the peaks, and has since been used to refer to the set of hundred highest peaks. To define the set of 100 mountains, the Bulgers list uses a 400ft prominence cutoff in most instances, but several peaks are included that have less than this amount of prominence, and volcanic subpeaks are required to have 800ft of prominence to be included.

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Comments

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I do not do FKTs myself but climb in Washington myself and followed his climb on social media so I am throwing my two cents here:
As Jason states, this was roughly 870 miles and 412,000' of gain in under 51 days.  These stats alone are flooring.
BUT THEN you take the step back to consider that these are not just peaks you drive to then walk up a trail. In fact only 4 of the 100 have trails to the top. So the number of insane Washington bushwhacking miles, crevassed glacier miles, miles of 4th and 5th class terrain, routefinding, multiple multi-day deep backcountry pushes, coordinating 3 different boat rides to gain access to peaks, the closed road to NCNP, the closure of Hwy 20, the record heat wave that rolled through, the fire closures he honored -making his access harder-, the border closure he honored -making the Chilliwacks significantly harder to access- and the incredible level of detailed logistics to even start this effort and suddenly the significance of this undertaking sinks in. Some of the individual mountains he climbed in a day -or even two in a day- are regularly 2 or 3 day trips by themselves. The other crazy part is there was no precedent of these peaks being doable like this, many people doubted he would succeed, even laughed hubris of such an attempt - I will admit, I was one of them, his persistence and dedication won me over.  It is my opinion, that this is one of the more inspiring and significant things to happen in the mountains, especially in the PNW, this year.

so kudos to you Jason! 

Randy,

I am honored and humbled by your high praise. I was chasing a challenge, curious to see if it was possible, and seeking to spend a summer in an amazing way. It means quite a lot that you found inspiration in it!  ...and yeah, it was quite hard. Thank you for bothering to write. This put a smile on my face.

with stoke and gratitude,
Jason