JasonG

It really depends on how much is still there and how actively it is shedding blocks. And how bold you are!

Ha! That's classic @tanstaafl....actually this is a TR from 2014 that was dug up. @Russinthemountains...that camp is on the ridge west of 7FJ

That's quite a lot of effort to go to to get content for your first TR! And, strangely enough, I've never gotten any sort of immersion foot in all my years of climbing, despite having lot of trips like your Logan one sounded like. I have gotten the "screaming barfies" when my feet froze in the winter a time or two though.

The "well known local climber" sounded like he actually broke the law (and was surly when confronted about it), quite unlike the instances we're talking about.. There really isn't a gray area when it comes to a permit in NOCA. Spending the night in the park (or the Ross Lake NRA)? You need a permit.

https://www.aclu-wa.org/what-do-if-youre-stopped-police I'm sure you can exercise your rights, but I imagine that it could get sticky. As annoying as it is, I typically try to answer their accusatory questions. But I might, just for the fun of it, take it to the extreme one day just to see what happens. Who knows, maybe I get a windfall settlement from the gov't for police brutality? Just gotta make sure someone is filming the debacle. It's all pretty amusing. I NEVER have these sorts of interactions with State Patrol or my local city and county police officers (I am a white guy, after all). They have more important things on their minds....

No. I climbed up this ridge to the summit from Park Creek pass in 1999. It was a full on choss-fest with lots of very, very loose 4th class. It is also quite long and took most of a day. We had a couple close calls with rockfall and counted ourselves lucky to have survived unscathed (we descended SW into Horseshoe basin and ultimately the Stehekin valley). Check out page 333 in the green CAG for a photo of the ridge from the south. "Much of the (east) ridge is knife-edge with very loose rock, and may be dangerous without a rope". I would add that it is still dangerous WITH a rope. You're not going to find descending to the SE any better....

Yeah @Albuquerque Fred, more TRs!

This was my exact exchange with a ranger at Cascade Pass several years ago, while I was taking a rest before heading up to Cache Col. A bit of a geography lesson for the LEOs might be more appropriate than the training for those tasers that they carry. You know, for when I get drunk and belligerent miles from the car.

For something like Adams I think comfortable boots will be fine, with strapped on crampons. Lots of hiking up not so steep ground, likely with an established boot pack. I think you could probably use the Rainier forecast to get a good idea of the best day.... good estimates of winds/temps at altitude. https://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/rainier_report.html Good luck, and post a TR regardless!

Thanks everyone! @sepultura, I do now that you mention it! Legendary. It was never a dull moment around that place. I also remember Wade would never eat there, being that he was a Skagit Co. health dept. inspector and knew their record of food safety violations..... And @cfire is right, total FarSide each and every time. @Phil K, I think you'd really enjoy Jacob's Ladder!

This....is.....amazing.

On the trail to the Enchantments, if I do remember correctly, though you'll have to be extra special if you feel the need to clip anything while walking up those slabs @cascade_mountaineer

It's no Huey Lewis, but this is more my style:

It really is, I think it could become moderately popular. You can't beat the position! And the approach is cool as well...plus hardly any brush.

oh man......that's classic! Funny you should mention people barging into that bathroom when it was "locked". We talked of this in detail. That latch just about got everyone, myself included, over the years. My favorite was a little old lady who just about had a heart attack when the door opened to reveal me on the toilet. Good times at Good Food. Now, if only I had had the guts to go to Blackie's when it was open in the 90's.... Dallas and Scott have regaled me with tales from that fine establishment.

Trip: Mount Prophet - "Jacob's Ladder" (AKA full SW rib...FA?) Trip Date: 06/24/2018 Trip Report: "And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." - Genesis 28:10-12 KJV Grunting our way up the prominent rib on the SW side of Mount Prophet (above, in photo taken from Luna Peak by Martin Shetter), nobody would have mistaken Kit Moffitt and I for angels. Although the summit of Prophet this past Sunday was certainly much closer to heaven than the bug infested forests back at Luna Camp, our home for two nights as we investigated the directissima up the SW rib. Our aim was to explore above 5450' on the feature, where everyone seems to traverse off the rib into a typically crappy talus basin (via 4th class down climb). Given the ominous warning on SummitPost, Kit and I went in with a rope, rack, and even a pair of rock shoes: "The rib has cliffs on either side and no one has yet explored the possibility of climbing it directly to the summit. That could prove to be a bad idea."- SP We were a little disappointed that the gear stayed in the pack the entire time, however (long way to carry it!), but pleasantly surprised to find fairly clean and exposed class 3 climbing for ~1500 vertical feet to the summit. There really is no reason to leave the SW rib for future parties, until it is time to descend. We did go down the "SW rib" route (south of actual SW rib, described well on SP and found it to be your typical mix of scree, talus,and pain). We also found a way back on to the rib at about 5600' that only involved a bit of exposed class 3 (seems easier than how the lower access is described on SP?). Given the obvious difference in quality between the two scramble routes, I suspect that future parties will follow the loop that Kit and I did this past Sunday. However, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has ascended the full SW rib before we did this past weekend. Does anyone have info of previous parties, before Kit and I go claiming this massive, 3rd class, FA?? It is quite prominent as you descend out Access (Axes? Pickaxes?) Creek, and I noticed it back in 2007 on the exit from my first Pickets trip. It was fun to come back and explore something that has not been documented before- our very own backyard adventure! Just goes to show that there are still plenty of blanks on the (climbing) map, even for the blue collar set.... Calling the resort for the boat pickup, saving 12 miles RT: Luna Peak: Mac Spires, Inspiration, The Pyramid, Degenhardt: Blue collar! Nearing the summit as the rib fades: Jack: "Jacob's Ladder" from the summit Old habits die hard. Hanging out with the ghosts at Good Food, post trip: Gear Notes: Helmet, axe, crampons (early season). We brought gear in case it was technical, but found nothing over exposed class 3. Approach Notes: Big Beaver trail to just before Luna camp, then head uphill a steep vertical mile to the summit. It goes from hiking to scrambling at about 5800' The slope turns into the SW rib which is followed religiously to the summit. Descend on the south side of the rib until you can regain it about 5600'

I would place a call up to the joint NPS/USFS office in Sedro Woolley and talk with Orlando Garcia. He handles special use permits for guides in the North Cascades and could let you know what you are in for.

Oh, you're THAT @Scott Bennett.....OK, makes more sense now!

ummmmmmmmmmm...... That is just about the craziest thing I've heard in a long time. Wow!! OK, I'll have to read your blog now....

The climb is cool and all, but, but .....that TRUNDLE!!! Any video of the carnage that must've wrought?? I can only aspire to such a feat.

Welcome @Asfahl! Glad you've found the site useful, hopefully this is the first of many TRs to come. Constance is a great climb, so very dramatic while on the upper mountain, and the highest summit in the Olympics visible from Seattle. A winning combo for sure.

You knew, deep down. The choss is strong within you.

I'm more interested in where that photo was @Bronco? Approximate date?

That's Marble Creek Cirque from near the Triad. Early morning spire, Dorado Needle, Eldorado!! One of my favorite places in all of the Cascades, though I've only been to that vantage in the winter. Obviously need to go back in summer!

Gothic Basin is likely to be pretty busy, but Gothic and Del Campo are fun scrambles. Likely to be less busy by Maude, which is also a good scramble along with 7FJ. More effort for those last two. I would also recommend Twin Lakes and the West ridge of Columbia.