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Good rebuttal VegasJoe.

Joe, I agree with everyone else. Walk the whole route. You will be glad you did.

Very good. Snow starts about 8000 ft. Camped at Helen Lake. Was surprised to see so few people. Big area to ski in. Easy solo to summit.

SMG Shasta Mountain Guides are good for reports on ski mountaineering route conditions on Shasta. Give em a call. I climbed Avalanche Gulch last Friday and saw a few skiing from below red rocks, 12,500 maybe. Above that it was too wind blown for skis.

Wow. That must have been hard to write. That is a photo of a happy man. My condolences to his family.

They should organize a union and demand $15 minimum wage.

Take the fam skiing and get a summit. Smart.

Go if you can. I saw one of Fred's slideshows last year and he was very entertaining.

Of course most bike riders in Seattle are jerks, just like auto drivers, truck drivers, bus drivers.... So catch the law breakers and punish em. I don't live in Seattle but please, please I wish the state would make me license my bike so all the anti bikers would quit whining about bicyclists.

sounds fun!

Now that's the kind of mountain expedition TR I like to read about. Well done. {who drives a 1970 volvo with a trailer to alaska?}

That is a good climb. Did the dog ride a bike?

Nice to read an honest tr from a noob about the reality of learning about alpine climbing. Way to go.

Trip: Glacier Peak - Gerdine-Cool Glaciers Date: 8/21/2013 Trip Report: North Fork Sauk river trail was busy with hikers as me and daughter Lucy filled 2 bottles of H2O at Mackinaw shelter for the hot steep trail up to White Pass. Blueberries were a treat. At the PCT fork we chatted with a thru hiker headed to Canada then turned right for about a mile and went up the heather for our first view of Glacier Peak. We dropped over the ridge down into the basin to the far end to set up base camp with good running water. Calm and warm with a full moon. It had been 8 years since I was here before and my foggy memory tried to remember the approach in the morning as we went high thru the boulder field and up to Glacier Gap where the whole route is easy to see. Got on the lower part of the glacier and roped up for an easy traverse and watched a few rocks coming down. Lucy wanted to try out her shiny new crampons which came in useful for the short section of hard snow and ice as you get onto the upper glacier. The Cool glacier was broken up with a lot of crevasses that we weaved in and out easily. At 9400 you head up a pumice ridge and a short easy gully to the summit. Had the whole mountain to ourselves. Signed the register and headed down at 3pm as clouds started to come in. Careful thru the upper section then raced as fast as we could to get back. Saw a couple guys at a bivy off to the right about 7400 and waved. Man, thats a long way down to camp which we made at 7pm. It rained hard off and on all night but stopped in the morning and went down a lovely valley to the climber trail and up over Red Pass back to the main trail. Met 2 groups coming in, one with 8 guys moving like a freight train. Headed to town for the usual, beer and burgers. ] Gear Notes: ice ax, 30m skinny rope, crampons Approach Notes: Fill 2 bottles at Mackinaw shelter

Good for your boy, bet he is tired tonight!

8 days cruising the Pickets. It doesn't get any better than that!

Wow!

They taste like chicken...

The Poles are hardcore climbers.

Maybe the dog just went for a joy ride.

Stop by my house on the way up Mt. Baker Hiway and I'll loan you my mountain bike. Only have one though. Or just walk the road.

The local business owners are already crying the blues about loss of shoppers, especially Canadians. Heck, this will be good for business. Think of all the high paying construction paychecks buying new pickups. They should knock a few more bridges down. Only way the politicians are gonna fix anything these days.

It's been a couple years but we slept in the back of a pick-up with a canopy at Paradise. Like everyone said, they don't want you to but we were very discrete about it. Didn't have a bunch of gear all spread out. Just parked with all the other rigs, climbed in back and got some zzzz's. Don't know if the altitude helped but that was the plan.

Anybody using one of these by Black Diamond? Are they any good?

Nice. Might head up and do the couloir. Snow conditions look good.