With Jimi, the question is always, "Are you experienced?"  After Jimi 98, David and Ken are completely confident in saying that we are now experienced mountaineers and snow campers.  Jimi 98 featured snow, hail, snow, cold weather, snow climbing, a dramatic unconventional rapid descent and arrest by David, and snow.

Poe Mountain is in the Cascades of central Washington, about 25 miles northwest of Leavenworth.

Ken noted that Jimi 98 was, while shorter than prior Jimis, much more intense.  David's comment was, "In retrospect, I had fun."  Lee was the trip's Beatrice, guiding us into the depths (heights) of an (icy) Inferno, with snow appropriate for Poe's "Descent into the Maelstrom."  The original plan called for 4 days/3 nights, but the snow conditions and David's rib led us to cut the trip in half.

Click on the thumbnails below to see full-sized images of the trip.
 

5.  Up the slope with the Little Wenatchee Valley in the background	6.  Lee and Ken break for lunch	7.  David heads upward	8.  Lee and David on a short stretch of the trail that is visible in the snow	9.  Ken and David traverse in increasing snowfall below the final approach to the summit
4.  David on the snow				10.  Camp is set up at photo point #8, about 300 ft below summit
3.  Lee Davis, super mountaineer				11.  Taking down David's very wet tent
2.  Snow trekking on the foot of Poe Mountain				12.  The slope below camp with the view across the valley
1.  David and Ken prepare to depart	16.  Waterfall at the foot of Poe	15.  Ken and Lee at the foot of Poe	14.  The intrepid Jimi 98 participants	13.  A moment's clear view down from above camp

 
 
 

A Lee Davis/Jimi Production 1998