outdoor_reserchr

My brother and I climbed Adams from the Cold Springs/South Climb Trailhead route on 6/27-28. We had to park three miles down the road from Cold Springs Campground, and perhaps this is what the Forest Service report is refering to as "the lower part of the parking lot"?? Although the snow on the road was sparse for the three mile hike over it, it was pretty deep when it was present and may not have melted enough within the past week to allow cars to drive through. I'd say be prepared for a three mile road-trek to Cold Springs Campground. There were plenty of sites at lunch counter melted out for setting up tents in, including plenty of options before lunch counter. There were also several streams flowing at lunch counter. My brother and I opted to melt snow with a stove, just to be safe. We started at 5:45 pm on Friday night, hiked the 3 miles in on the road and climbed for about 2 1/2 hours till we reached 7200 ft and made camp. We got up at 6am, just took food, water, and a stove to melt snow with and made the summit around 11:45am (we bore east and stayed mostly on the Suksdorf Ridge route). Snow conditions were perfect for glissading when we came back down around 12:30. Bring sunscreen!!