The ''Northwest Mountaineering Journal'' was a now defunct online

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started in 2004 by Lowell Skoog to serve as a record of new climbs and ski descents, as well as to provide articles and stories pertinent to

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in the

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of North America. The magazine was run by volunteers and hosted on the server of the Mountaineers and CascadeClimbers.com. It was published annually. Following the publication of the 2010 volume, Lowell Skoog stepped down as editor, and the magazine effectively ceased to exist. In 2014 the Mountaineers quit hosting the archives. Historically, new routes were reported in the ''Mountaineers Annual'' through 1985. The ''

American Alpine Journal The ''American Alpine Journal'' is an annual magazine published by the American Alpine Club. Its mission is "to document and communicate mountain exploration." The headquarters is in Golden, Colorado. Subtitled as a compilation of "The World's M ...

'' documents routes around the world, including from Washington, but requires that routes be of at least a minimum seriousness ( grade IV). Online interaction through forums such as CascadeClimbers.com, aerial photography by John Scurlock, and a critical mass of active climbers has helped spur a renaissance of route development and exploration, many of which are less than a grade IV, but there was not a venue for documenting these routes for posterity.

References

External links

WayBack Machine archives

Lowell Skoog's website

John Scurlock's photo galleries

CascadeClimbers
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