A mid-October Climb of Mount Stone, Olympic National Park / by Kaj Bune

The weather in the Pacific Northwest has been very dry and calm for weeks, right into mid-October. My good friend Andy Towne and I took advantage of this extended summer weather to climb Mount Stone in the southeastern Olympics, just inside the park. Other than the wildfire smoke, which we mostly climbed out of for our night out and time on the upper mountain, it was a perfect weekend outing.