Nick.Battaglia

Hello, Utah based climber here looking to make a trip to a volcano for a winter ascent of some ice and rock route. Can anyone suggest something that might be in right now that has WI3 or steeper ice. I am not familiar with the current conditions out there but am aware your winter like ours has been very warm with little precip (seem good for alpine ice). For example I was looking at dragontail peak and the triple colouirs route with the thought that it might be in early, but have no idea. The current summit temp is in the negatives so perhaps not. Any ideas? Thanks, Nick 5039871358

Hello, I'm looking to hopefully bag all these next summer, maybe not on the same trip but potentially, and am looking for a solid partner or two for them. I've been climbing a few years, very comfortable in the alpine now, summited emmons route on rainier, a couple routes on shasta, recently did the black ice couloir on the grand teton, various rock multi pitch routes all over. Ideally we'd do some water ice climbing this coming season and maybe a winter summit or two in the cascades or abroad it just depends on where you're located. Let me know! Nick 503.987.1358

Out-of-towner here with a cascades trip planned for next week although the weather reports are not looking great. We have a lower risk profile but had hoped to get up some moderately technical routes on any of either baker, hood, rainier, adams. We actually have a permit for liberty ridge, summiting the 19th. What can locals say about the weather next week, how smart would it be to drive out and camp and hope for a weather window give the general weather pattern that's predicted right now? Is it still too far out to say?