Bushwhacker Climbing Club

Dumbbell-Greenwood: 6/28-6/29
Humans: Preston, Megan, Ashley, Alex, Said

Dog: Bowie

Was looking for a chill climb to enjoy beginning of summer and the early season low crowds. And one that was also dog-friendly. So enter: Greenwood Dumbbell double tag. Or as we like to call it: Greendum Bellwood.

The approach was straightforward starting at Phelps Creek TH and hiking about 7 miles and 2400 ft up Phelps Creek Basin before climbing up the last 0.5 mile/1000 ft NE towards some nice flat benches at 6800 ft for camp. The trail was mostly melted out but the creek were thundering! We had a full range of footwear from hiking Teva’s to mountaineering boots! The views from the meadow looking up Spider Gap were stunning and another reminder of this beautiful place we call the PNW!

Next morning we left camp at 6:30am towards the south ridge of Dumbbell. We were on snow up to the 8k contour before transitioning to some fun loose scree and onto the short class 3 gulley that’s the most direct route to the ridge up to the summit. We summitted at 9:30am and enjoyed the views! We transitioned back down the same route to the “ledge” towards Greenwood. The ledge was snow free and once we got off it, it was basically an easy walk up and we summitted Greenwood at 1pm. Based on the summit register, we were the first ascent of Greenwood in 2025! It was fun to see other bushwhacker summits from back in 2021!

We mostly glissaded to camp and made to the cards by 8:15pm. So no creek bath, which was sad, but we had to get to food! Everywhere nearby was closed for food, so after 3 failed, we had dinner? at the 24-hour IHOP in Monroe, which I highly recommend for future food options. Back to Seattle at 12:40am on Monday! In total we did around 20 miles and over 7kft of gain.

Bowie did an awesome job of hiking 15 miles and 4K ft! We also had amazing humans that embodied the camaraderie of mountain travel including our non-official but basically proxy Bushwhacker Ashley. Great weekend.