Climb: Glacier Peak-Cool/Disappointment

Date of Climb: 7/24/2005

Trip Report:
Saturday:

7:00 AM - We ate some homebaked cookies.

9:00 AM - We ate some berries.

11:00 AM - We cached our sneakers for the return and put on boots.

1:00 PM - We swam in a glacial lake. One of us mounted an iceberg.

2:00 PM - We saw (and heard) an F-15 flying about 500 feet over our heads.

3:00 PM - We suntanned for a while.

6:00 PM - We drank some Cap'n.

8:45 PM - One of us watched the sun set.

Sunday:

4:00 AM - One of us played the 10-minute why-won't-the-F'in-contact-go-in game?

5:45 AM - We watched the peaks all around us light at sunrise.

7:30 AM - Happily hid behind a boulder and out of the fierce wind to put crampons back on.

8:00 AM - Wind magically stops.

8:45 AM - One of us took an orgasmic dump.

11:00 AM - We drank some Cap'n.

12:30 PM - Some of us swam, some of us bouldered, some of us took photos.

2:00 PM - We swapped wet socks and boots for dry socks and sneakers.

3:45 PM - We ate some berries.

4:00 PM - One of us took an orgasmic dump.

5:45 PM - We ate some homebaked cookies.

Post deleted by jon

Nice TR. Captures those key moments of the trip. I'd like to add:

10:00 pm - Snaffle attacks.

and:

12:00 am - 1/2 the group relocates to outside the tent to avoid the rain.

what, no photo's!
A topo showing the dump sites would be helpful too

There will be photos a few days later. I digitally postprocess all my photos, which takes longer.

Though I didn't mention it in my original post, because it didn't fit in with the style, conditions were about as perfect as they could get. The trail has been recently brushed. The Whitechuck basin is either snow-free or dry dying glacier. Running water in the basin and at Glacier Gap. Only a few crevasses, excellent cramponing. Go bag it next weekend! (I'd even dare say that some sick bastard could do it in a day.)

We saw only six other people in the Whitechuck basin / on Glacier Peak the entire weekend.

where you drop into the Whitechuck Basin


the sad state of the Whitechuck Glacier


Ben mounting the iceberg


Gary swimming in the lake


Whitechuck Basin at sunset


Chiwawa Range at sunset


sunset


hue over the Dakobed


Daniel and Hinman at sunrise


Monte Cristos at sunrise


Mountain Loop peaks at sunrise


group photo


roped up on the glacier


roped up on the glacier


roped up on the glacier


the summit as seen from Disappointment Peak


Ben on the summit


Brian on the summit


looking south from the summit


Ben and Rainier


Whitechuck Basin on the way down


Glacier Peak from the dry dying Whitechuck Glacier


purple heather


purple heather


Sloan from White Pass


Monte Cristos from White Pass

Cool

AWESOME photos! what camera are you using, and how did you get such great colors???

Yeah, inspiring photos. Thanks.
Could you give me any beta on your approach? Trail, bushwack, road condition, etc. And roundtrip mileage?
thanks

TLG: I used a Canon S410. On many of the shots, I bracketed at 0 and -1 and digitally aligned them afterward, then applying a digital split filter. And then tweak curves, saturate colors, etc. Maybe even some more drastic edits to improve composition.

PVD: Sloan Creek Campground -> NF Sauk -> Mackinaw Shelter -> White Pass -> climbers path -> cross ridge -> Whitechuck Basin -> Glacier Gap -> Disappointment Peak Cleaver -> Gerdine -> Cool -> S Ridge -> summit
Road's fine. No bushwhacking. Roundtrip mileage... maybe 34 miles, about 22 miles on trail/nice climbers path?

your purple heather photos are especially awesome, but great pics in general!

yeah those are Velvia-like pictures from a digital camera, really nice!

We intended to follow the same route as these guys. We got to the Whitechuch Basin and then CLOUDS CLOUDS RAIN! We were forced to retreat through nearly a whiteout. I have pics, I'll convert and upload them. They are pretty good.

I'd like to come back and do Sloan or Glacier for sure. Those are both BEAUTIFUL peaks. SLoan, is quite impressive.

Clintoris, when did you attempt? We are going to give the same route a shot this weekend. I have the route programmed into the GPS, so hopefully we can proceed through inclement weather, we'll see...