Gathering in Anacortes today to pay tribute to the late Dallas Kloke are rock climbers from all over the region. Kloke, an Anacortes resident, died last year at age 71 as the result of a climbing accident in the North Cascades. Pictured here at Starbucks Saturday morning are Calvin Landrus (right) and Dean Olin, who […]
It should have come as no surprise to me to find Dallas Kloke on the mountain. It was a beautiful January afternoon when I drove to the top of Mt. Erie to take some photographs. Among at least a dozen others at the summit were Kloke (left) and a climbing companion. Kloke has been climbing […]