Thanks for the fun trip Sean. Such a beautiful setting, relaxing first day at camp, engaging route, and wild summit.
Yeah snow routes in the cascades are sketchy these days. When do you think was the last time that couloir got a good freeze this year?
But though the snow was sketchy the rock was better than expected. Definitely some looseness but a lot of compact chunky greenschist reminiscent of the Fisher Chimneys. Fun scrambling. We greatly benefited from all the mistakes and mishaps of others over the years--I fully believe there is some terrible rock on this peak and I'm glad we got to avoid it.
Very surprised to be the only names in the register since 2018. Let's see some ascents! The north face/ridge route looks cool too and then you don't have to climb over the bergschrund!