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The set of 100 peaks I plan to climb is known as the Bulger List. The Bulger List comes from an informal group of mountaineers who called themselves the Bulgers and set out to climb Washington's 100 highest peaks many decades ago. While it differs from a related list (400P), which is more strictly defined by a certain degree of prominence (that is, the elevation of a summit relative to its surrounding terrain), it is safe to say the Bulgers make up the the classic list with its own historic lineage. As of the end of the 2022 climbing season, 87 people have completed the Bulgers. Nearly all took many years or decades to complete. The fastest known completion of the Bulger List was an astonishing 50 days and 23 hours by Jason Hardrath. In 2023, a team of two, Langdon Ernest-Beck and Jeff Hashimoto, used human powered transportation (bicycles) to climb the Bulgers in a season, which is beyond inspirational. Many Bulger finishers have been gracious in their support of the WA100 Project.
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I have climbed about a quarter of these 100 peaks in the past, but I will re-climb them all for this project. And I will be returning to some peaks for the first time in many years. You might be wondering how long I plan to climb them? Well, speed is not my goal. (While I do not have a set timeline, it would be a personal achievement to finish by my 40th birthday in October 2024.) Rather, the purpose of this project is quite different, and I intend to let this local landscape determine my timeline. After all, it is the mountains that invite you in (or not), and it will be a privilege to climb and summit each and every peak I can, and hopefully document the landscape like no one else has done before. In short, I will let the mountains call the shots, and I will take mine when I’m invited to do so.
TRACK THE CLIMBS:
PROJECT TALLY: Completed: 100 | Peaks to Go: 0
LIST KEY: ✅=Completed 🟠=Upcoming
✅ 1. Tahoma (Mt. Rainier) (14,411’)
✅ 2. Pahto/Klickitat (Mt. Adams) (12,276’)
✅ 4. Koma Kulshan (Mt. Baker) (10,781’)
✅ 5. Dakobed (Glacier Peak) (10,520’)
✅ 6. Bonanza Peak (9511’)
✅ 7. Mount Stuart (9415’)
✅ 8. Mount Fernow (9249’)
✅ 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. Mesahchie Peak (8795’)
✅ 29. Oval 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’)
✅ 37. 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. Enchantment Peak (8520’)
✅ 52. Storm King (8520’)
✅ 53. Reynolds Peak (8512’)
✅ 54. Martin Peak (8511’)
✅ 55. Primus Peak (8508’)
✅ 56. Dark Peak (8504’)
✅ 57. Mox Peak SE (Hard) (8504’)
✅ 58. Cashmere Mountain (8501’)
✅ 59. Klawatti Peak (8485’)
✅ 60. Horseshoe Peak (8480’)
✅ 61. Mount Rahm (8480’)
✅ 62. Big Craggy Peak (8470’)
✅ 63. Hoodoo Peak (8464’)
✅ 64. Lost Peak (8464’)
✅ 65. Chiwawa Mountain (8459’)
✅ 66. Argonaut Peak (8453’)
✅ 67. Tower Mountain (8444’)
✅ 68. Mount Bigelow (8440’)
✅ 69. Little Annapurna (8440’)
✅ 70. Sinister Peak (8440’)
✅ 71. Dorado Needle (8440’)
✅ 72. Emerald Peak (8422’)
✅ 73. Dumbell Mountain (8421’)
✅ 74. Greenwood Mountain (8415’)
✅ 75. Mox Peaks-NW (Easy) (8407’)
✅ 76. Saska Peak (8404’)
✅ 77. Azurite Peak (8400’)
✅ 78. Luahna Peak (8400’)
✅ 79. Pinnacle Mountain (8400’)
✅ 80. Blackcap Mountain (8397’)
✅ 81. Courtney Peak (8392’)
✅ 82. South Spectacle Butte (8392’)
✅ 83. Martin Peak (8375’)
✅ 84. Lake Mountain (8371’)
✅ 85. West Craggy (8366’)
✅ 86. Golden Horn (8366’)
✅ 87. McClellan Peak (8364’)
✅ 88. Devore Peak (8360’)
✅ 89. Amphitheater Mountain (8358’)
✅ 90. Snowfield Peak (8347’)
✅ 91. Austera Peak (8334’)
✅ 92. Loowit (Mt. St. Helens) (8333’)
✅ 93. Windy Peak (8333’)
✅ 94. Cosho Peak (8332’)
✅ 95. Big Snagtooth (8330’)
✅ 96. Mount Formidable (8325’)
✅ 97. Abernathy Peak (8321’)
✅ 98. Switchback Mountain (8321’)
✅ 99. Flora Mountain (8320’)
✅ 100. Tupshin Peak (8320’)
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Scott acknowledges that this project takes place on the ancestral homelands of numerous Tribes, Bands, and First Nations, including most notably the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Samish Indian Nation, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Nooksack Tribe, Lummi Nation, Nlaka’pamux Nation, Colville Confederated Tribes, Syilx/Okanagan Nation, Yakama Nation, Cowlitz Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
This acknowledgement is offered as a first step in honoring the Indigenous peoples’ relationship with the land on which we recreate, and a call towards further learning and action, not in place of the authentic relationships with local Indigenous communities, but rather to assist in giving them voice.