[TR] Mt Hood - Coe Icefall 7/16/2007

[hoodie]

Trip: Mt Hood - Coe Icefall

 

Date: 7/16/2007

 

Trip Report:

Went up the Coe on decent ice and suspect snow. When it was steep, it was usually solid ice, but a couple times it was 60+ deg. slush that was lossa fun.

 

Route was straight forward till the end where the last bridges were barely there. They will be gone soon, but you could probably make a traverse out right and get around the final cracks.

 

We thought of going above the Snowdome, but as another party climbing Sunshine found out, you would have to really, really, really want it to go above Snowdome. Your options are 1) Go directly up the middle of the upper Elliot ie. the garbage chute for the Elliot Headwall 2)Climb directly up Anderson rock ie. Pure choss joy or 3)Traverse down from the Snowdome across the top of the Coe Icefall and gain the bare Cathedral ridge at about 9200' ie. High mileage pure choss garbage chute joy.

 

Short version: Coe is still fun, route finding will be interesting, stop at the Snowdome.

 

 

 

The Coe from Cloud Cap road.

 

 

 

 

[Couloir]

Very nice! This doesn't get done very often. Good to see a TR. It look slike you crossed from Cloud Cap. Where did you cross the Eliot?

[ivan]

nice - there's a good tr w/ pix that brock did many years ago too, though i'm too lazy to find the link...

[iain]

ahhhhh the smelliot. must be a nice change from the palmer headwall direct.

[billcoe]

Not a place to dawdle in the summer. Killer huge ice blocks sweeps that face on a not too infrequent basis.

 

Glad it went well for you. In July. whew.

 

-Bill