LukeShy

I was in the climbing group of 7 that was up on Sahale. I've been super busy, but I'd like to put together a report about the rescue this week. I got a bunch of photos of the helicopter rescue operation. Stay tuned.

Amazing trip report Steph! Thanks for all of the hard work putting together all of the cool route overlays and beta sheets. I'm sure I'll be using them when I head in there this year. Great night time photos too! Any reason you didn't go for NW Mox?

I heard you guys climbing as I slogged up Asgard. Great work Team Ginger! I have a picture one of you - white helmet on up at the top of the route. Let me know if you want the full size pic. Also as a fellow ginger I think you should claim this as the the First No Soul Ascent (FNSA)?

It's all good get your rest at work today . I figured that's what you meant or you found a little known bypass of the down slope to the lake. Oh well the slog uphill to the pass remains

Did you actually go to Horsefly Pass or did you follow the trail over Heather Pass? From your first picture Horsefly looks a bit cliffy...

Solid work guys! Congrats on the summit. Glad you were able to avoid the crowds on the west ridge and make the east ledges go. Sounded like the west ridge descent was a cluster.

Great work guys! That's a ton more snow than when I was up there a few years back at this time. I'm glad Sasha kept it classy on the summit! Oh don't worry about Martin, you can come back and climb it with me since I wimped on my first attempt too.

Great report Franklin. I liked the video. That airy traverse looks rad. Congrats on the summit to all!!!

I haven't and I'm sure Devin hasn't either. I also looked at your approach on that, looks shorter but might be a bit of a schwack to get in. Shouldn't be too bad though. I'd say go for it, nothing like an adventure to a place that's not often traveled. I'm glad to hear there's others like me endlessly chasing the chossy slopes of the Cascades!

Nice work getting the climb done on such a interesting weather day! I'm glad that you were protected from the winds we were encountering on Argonaut. Glad to hear you figured out the easy way through the schwack, it's easy to get suckered into that boulder field.

Trip: Big and West Craggy Peaks - Standard Traverse Date: 6/10/2012 Trip Report: There hasn't been a TR on these peaks besides the East Face of West Craggy so with the contest going on I figured I'd give a report. Here goes nothing... Seeing the crappy forecast for everywhere in the Cascades Josh R, Ryan M, and I elected for something that might be less suck weather wise. So we made the journey East to Winthrop Saturday afternoon and headed up to the Copper Glance TH to climb the Craggies. Figuring with the marginal forecast and the Winthrop Marathon there would be no one else at the TH we camped there and got an early start in the morning 5am. In short time we arrived at the abandoned mine and decided to head up a snow gully to the SE ridge of Big Craggy. It was a direct shot to the top from there, but as we got higher the snow got softer and the clouds more dense until we were in it for reals. Lots of fresh snow and low visibility made the talus and scree a bit challenging but we made the summit in no time. Josh on the SE ridge of Big Craggy Big Craggy Summit Ridge It's still cold and windy but we can see more than 10 feet! We didn't stay long on the summit, snapped a few pics of the amazing views and headed down for the traverse to West Craggy. This was a good test of the old navigation skillz in a whiteout. So with a few compass checks along the way we were on the right path. A bit of post holing action was encountered with the fresh snow on scree, not too bad. That's when the clouds started to break and we could finally see a bit further. Ryan mid traverse, starting to clear up! Sweet traverse action, some snow covered class 2-3ish gully sections were encountered further on in the fog. We found the big snow filled gully leading to the West Craggy summit ridge, as the clouds started to lift for good. The snow was a bit firm under the new 4-6", but you could make your way up without crampons. Heading up to West Craggy summit ridge With the fresh snow the final talus slope traverse was a bit slow going, but the views were getting nicer by the minute. Summit Ridge rime ice Isabella Ridge and Sherman Peak - looking South Big Craggy - Our traverse was just below the ridge on the back side West Craggy Summit Panoramic Some cool lines on Isabella Ridge, that might warrant a return trip with more gear The decent was uneventful and went fast in the quickly softening snow. We found the trail in no time and were headed back to Seattle. Not bad for a weekend forecast of suck. Flickr Photos Approach Notes: 10 hours of driving for 8 hours of climbing. Yes, there is something wrong with me.

Huh, no we didn't see them at all, I guess we slept right through them coming through the camp area. I couldn't really hear anything but the wind blowing against my bivy.

That's cool you guys got something did in the odd weather. I was one of the four that showed up at the moraine in the middle of the rain storm. We wondered where you guys went Sunday morning. After 'sleeping' in, we decided to just bail, and we did a lap on R&D on our way out of icicle creek.

Nice TR of the weekend Bill. Thanks for doing the hard work and posting the report and my pics!

Simply wow! I was one of the group of four you chatted with just below Prusik Pass. We were wondering if you'd actually get to climb, glad to hear it went well. Great TR too.

Nice work, I guess that it was more successful this time since their were no accidental front flips or sliding down slopes backwards.

This is what it looks like when I print. I even tried printing to PDF and it came out like this. You can see the shading in the upper left corner only.

Is anyone else having trouble printing a USGS 7.5' overlayed with the shaded relief and having the shaded relief show up on the entire page? (it shows up in my in Firefox just fine) I'm getting it to print only on the upper left hand section of the screen, the rest just prints the 7.5' map.

Glenfiddich 15 "scotch, scotch, scotch, I love scotch, scotchy, scotch, scotch..."

Yes. Old-timey maps FTW! Great work mattyj (Productivity at work is going to be low this week for this map nerd. )

All deathmetal, all the time! +1 for crack climbing, for reals though.

Nice work all! Sounds like you guys had a fun trip. Got any pictures of what you climbed?

Trip: Lane Peak - The Zipper Date: 2/11/2012 Trip Report: Original Plan: Skin/Climb the easy way up Lane, ski The Zipper. What actually happened (and why this is and Alpine Trip): Heinous snow conditions right from the road made us really rethink our ski descent plans. We looked like a bunch of first day skier clowns. The Lover's Lane crew was going about the same speed as us down to the basin below Lane. (there goes all the fun of calling them slowshoes) They got a great show for sure. Once we 'gracefully' cruised in to the basin we skinned up to the lower slopes of the Zipper & Fly. We found a nice thick breakable rain crust and frozen avalanche debris, making skinning suck, and booting up not so much fun either. [imagine a picture of carrying skis up a steeper slope while postholing to your balls] Once we worked our way to the Zipper proper there was a nice runnel that made kicking steps up a bit easier. Scott heading up the Zipper We made short work of it once we got going, snow was great for kicking steps the whole way. We stopped for some food and some scotch at the top. Afterwards we continued on to the summit, more good snow the whole way. Classy Ice Axe Pose Jason and I on the summit ridge. We awaited ajpederson's group to rappel into the Zipper, than we headed down. Our descent gave us a few nice turns to the saddle, than back to survival ski mode/flail/monster jump turns. The final slope was another fine display of 'skiing' this time there was an audience of hikers to watch our fine technique. It was another awesome day in the mountains, so really I can't complain at all. Especially the beers at the car, thanks Scott! Gear Notes: Ice Axe. Ski's are good training weight when you climb the Zipper. Approach Notes: Flotation of the non-ski variety until we get some fresh snow, unless you're a rock star skier of the Cascade Crud.

Wow excellent work, this is a great resource. Adding the extra layers of shading and the 40' contours are fantastic. The shading really adds depth to the topos. Thanks again for your hard work. I'll be switching from ACME map for sure!

Great job Josh! Glad it all worked out for you. We'll have to go back for Storm King sometime.