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Here is a picture of your buttress from the summit of Storm King. See lower part of image: It doesn't look so bad. Another view of the buttress from the north:

AZRR [or WACHRR] (yep, we've already abbreviated you)... Your style of writing makes me think you're a lawyer. Anyway... It might be helpful if you can state your ALPINE rock climbing ability (what Class 5 level you can climb). Approach: You seem to be sold on the Grizzly Camp (i.e., Bridge Creek) approach. But, in case you change your mind, the aforementioned 6850 col SE of Mt. Logan can be seen in the first pic on this page. The col is at right-center. The nice thing is descending into Bridge Creek from the col would dump you pretty close to your proposed access route to the butress. The Bridge Creek way entails many miles of trail (15 miles?) then some off-trail when the trail peters out. Buttress: Here is an excellent picture showing the buttress from the side (click here for the full-size version). Here's a smaller version of the same that will fit on this thread: Now that I see it from the side, the buttress doesn't look so hard once you're on its crest but the image could be deceiving. That diagonal streak of snow might actually be behind the buttress in the distance, not on the buttress. Another side view of the buttress, this time from the other side. Looking at this, I think that aforementioned snowfinger *is* on the buttress. Getting onto it will be the bigger problem, probably. It looks like Class 4 or 5 from beside the hanging glacier there. Approach to the buttress: Philonious is correct, the approach up from the creek to the base of the climb will be a lot more than it looks on the satellite imagery. That streambed you speak of probably has some short cliffs in it once it transitions to a chute and in July will likely be bustling with runoff. The topo suggests some steeper parts. There will also likely be moats or schrunds in the chute. The brush to either side of the stream course definitely looks like hellish slide alder and should be avoided. It may be possible to bail out of the chute early when the brush to the sides starts to give way to heather. If you can get up through the chute, then the terrain below the hanging glacier will likely be on easier slabs, at least until you get closer to the buttress where the terrain will become steeper and chossier. Storm Throne: A picture of the south side of it the nature of the terrain on the east end of the throne How about sitting there? First Ascent! Goode-SK col: The picture above (especially the full-size one) shows the schrund below the col. It stretches nearly all the way across. Of course that picture was taken in the month of September, but expect July conditions to be similar, but less icy. Here is a picture of the glacier below the col as taken from near the summit of Storm King (also in September): The col is out of sight to the right. Crevasses and schrunds abound. Good luck!

AZRockRat: You can call yourself RockRat down there, but up here on Storm King, you'll be calling yourself WAChossRat. My general comments: The approach to that side of Storm King is fraught with the difficulties associated with time and distance, and then the usual Cascades garbage of brush and cliff and brushy cliff and even cliffy brush. There are many miles of trail if coming from the east (i.e., N Fk Bridge Creek). You might consider coming in via Easy Pass, descending into Fisher Creek then up the tributary draining Mt. Logan's Douglas Glacier, then up and over the 6850 col one mile SE of Logan's summit. You could even tag Logan while on the way by. You can get from the trailhead to a camp at the col in a very long day. I don't know. Getting to the base of Storm King just plain sucks. What you do and where you camp might depend on if you intend to carry-over or not. No comment on the N. Buttress route of Storm King. There are others on this website with more knowledge of it. But here is a view of it from "Outpost Peak" (Pk 7910 two miles to the NNE). Storm King is on the right and your buttress is on the extreme edge of the photo. This photo was taken in June 2006. Your Google image and topo map show a completion of the climb via the West Ridge of Storm King. Note that the mass including Pt. 8515 is not the summit. The summit is here (8520+ ft). The Pt. 8515 mass is known as "Storm Throne." The doability of running that ridge to the summit depends on your hardcoreness and/or whether you want to do it as an enchainment Wayne Wallace style or wouldn't mind dropping off the crest to easier terrain on the south side. Based on the picture above, there appears to be a left-slanting bail/shortcut from the upper N. Butt to the notch east of Pt. 8515 that would allow you to skip the Throne. A continuation to the summit would require a climb up and over the false west summit, or there are possibly ledges on the north side. These ledges are used when coming from the other end when doing the standard south side route. Some Scurlockian pics for you: south side of summit. Pt. 8515 is out of frame to the left. north side of Throne. Good luck with that deep notch! The aforementioned shortcut (steep snow apron) is visible at lower left. zoom out of Throne. A wider view. and wider still A descent via Storm King col is doable but there is a bergshrund/crevasse that opens up a few hundred vertical below the col that has been a problem for some parties. You can't downclimb the col. You have to rappel it. Paul

That's one way to get on-the-scene beta for conditions farther up the mountain. Can I have one for my backpack? Watching some of the flybys past buildings, it makes me wonder if the military ever uses RC planes like this for surveillance. It would be hard to shoot down a little plane like that as it zips by.

The classic Shuksan angle, as seen above, was even featured as the backdrop of a Nintendo racing game, one of the newer versions of Super Mario Cart, I think. You'd race around the track and the mountain would come into view and slide left or right in the background depending on which way the racetrack turned at a bend.

Dude, that's what regular parties are for. This is the Top 100 party and mingling is NOT what it's all about. Now that you've finished the Top 100 you don't have to waste your awesomeness at this annual party. Maybe you can burn that completion T-shirt I gave you as your next firepit experiment then show the video at the I'm-Too-Cool-For-That party, which I am sure you'll be attending, but only once...cuz you're too cool for that too.

Fry might just leave a paper bag full of dog poop on the pound stoop. Hey that rhymed. A rhyme at Buddy Tough's expense. Woof.

I have had Four Loko (thanks Carla! Or is that no thanks, Carla?) and it was NAsty with a capital NA. I've also had Evil Eye ( evidence {somewhat}) and it was even worse, but then only had a swig of that swill. I don't know that Evil Eye is sold anymore. I've still got a can of Earthquake (12 percent alcohol malt beverage) in my fridge that Roper gave me like a year ago. I had one can already. NASty with a capital NAS.

Damn you, givashit, sorry gavastik. Yeah, you totally hurt my feelings real bad. So bad I think I'll give up climbing now. That's it! I'm selling all my gear to a Mountie tomorrow. All these years of climbing Cascade choss has made me soft.

Improbable choss pile? Sheesh. This is the Cascades. You want solid, go climb in a freakin' gym.

Remember Mt. Higgins?

Let me see if I can sum up this thread... "I'm a fucking prick and you're a fucking moron." Good day.

Colin, if you're talking about the blue rain barrel-sized plastic drums (equivalent to the size of a standard oil drum), I've got two. I'll undercut Wayne and Kurt and offer mine for free. Nah, wait, I'll do even better. You come take them away and I'll give you $1 for each one. These barrels held water at the house (previous owners) so I don't think they're too dirty inside. But I can't verify that. It depends on what you might need one of these for.

So true! I remember when that channel was...shall I say...interesting. Irony: Ivan, teacher, spells it "adds." Or it was a typo. Mythbusters has got to be one of the more annoying shows on the tube.

There was a register on Storm King in the summer of 2008. I am not sure on 2009 or 2010. But if I was a betting man, I'd say there's a 98% chance there is still one up there as I type this. The peak isn't climbed all that often and the most likely to do so are Top 100 climbers, and they generally aren't the type to remove registers.

Oooo, oooo, can I play? j_b JayB

Stefan, you've got some peaks to bag there. Call it the Sex Court 100.

Let this be a lesson to you: This is Sergio. He is both sad and mad. He lost his Heineken half-rack stash in Ross Lake. Did it float away or was it stolen? Hmmm? He said he secured it well. Let this be another lesson to you: I once lost a couple of 24-oz beer bottles trying to stash them in 6-inch deep water in Bridge Creek. The plastic bag I was carrying them in broke and one beer smashed on the rocks and the other disappeared immediately...IN SIX INCHES OF CLEAR WATER! We looked around for many minutes not finding the lost bottle. We joked that it would eventually make its way to Lake Chelan and some lucky boater would discover it floating by.

Yes there is: map It's a good distance but it's nice it's there in case you miss the taxi. As for what shape it's in, PM Tom Sjolseth as I believe he has hiked it (a few years ago).

Sweet lord jeebus gawd o'mighty! Look at them mtn pron photos! Do you have some pron looking east from Ruth (toward Mineral Mountain)? (like the fifth picture but taken higher up the mountain)

"Don't be totally discouraged, though, as the heavier snow pack currently means less brush and bugs!" Except in Swamp Creek. ha ha ha.

"World's busiest beavs"? Yes. World's lamest picture of a beaver dam in the Yahoo story? Yes again.

mkporwit: nope, not even close! Is that all you got? Hint for the first photo: it's a Fort Lewis hill. Okay, that's not any help. Hint for the second photo: it was a momentous occasion for the guy in the foreground...if you know who he is...hence the Taddy Porter in hand. ivan: if not CBR, a western summit of EP?

Since I'm the guest of dishonor in this thread, can I play? Ooooo oooo oooo! Please please! The entries above are waaayy too easy. Name these summits. I dare ya! I double dumpster dog dare ya!

j_b, please explain to me how people who don't want (or would want, for that matter) tax cuts qualify as Darwin Award nominees. Don't be such a liberal wank.