pete_a

wow! you guys never cease to amaze with these marathon trips! (do y'all really hate carrying a tent and sleeping bag that much? ...just kidding) Ryan, hope your arm heals up quickly.

well at least you're being honest ...i wouldn't expect a 'reward' for swiping someone's stashed equipment while they were on a climb.

thanks! guess i'm packing the sneakers for a bit of road walking

did you need a high-clearance vehicle to get over the Scatter Creek water crossing on the road? Just wondering if a regular ol' car can make it to the trailhead right now. thanks.

i really don't want this to be true.... is this the Lee F Adams who's helped out with the Washington Alpine Club for years? damnit...this sucks

approx 34 miles, 9000-10,000ft of total gain/loss. nice job on the one-day jaunt! i think we might've seen y'all sunday afternoon...we were skiing out across the whitechuck basin and saw some folks moving along pretty fast with sneakers. nice weather that weekend and running water at glacier gap let us go rather light on the camping gear and made a 2-day trip carrying ski gear pretty reasonable.

damn dude, are you trying to ski the entire Washington Cascades crest in one season? its been amazing reading your trip reports this season....nice job banging out so many big traverses in such a short span.

Hadley Peak and the Coleman Pinnacle vicinity (both north of Mt.Baker) hold relatively smooth snow through the entire summer when there's been a good winter snowpack. Spray Park/Flett glaciers/Russell glacier (north side of Rainier, Mowich Lake TH) also are good places to look for late summer skiing.

thanks!

If anyone has been up to Eldorado recently (within the past week) and has pictures of the north side of Forbidden and Moraine Lake, please send me a PM...I'd greatly appreciate taking a look at the pics...I'm wondering how much snow is left on the descent from the Forbidden glacier to Moraine Lake. thanks!

how was the parking situation at rainy pass? enough room to safely leave a car there overnight?

fyi, this is second hand info, but I know some folks climbed the Adams glacier over memorial day weekend and rather than starting from Killen Creek, they drove north on Rd 23 from Trout Lake as close to Adams as they coudl get then hiked cross-country (relatively open forest, no bushwacking) to treeline on the north side of Adams...they wrote that it added an extra mile or mile and a half to the usual killen creek approach. please post a TR if ya go...I'm hoping to head in there later this month.

doubletall, assuming you did the climb as a day trip? what time did you start up from morrison creek? thanks.

thanks for the info!

just curious...have you done any climbing/skiing on Baird Peak or Shakespeare Shoulder nearby? my girlfriend and I will be up in AK on Saturday for a couple weeks of roadtripping and monkeying around on some of the more accessible ski terrain, and I was thinking it would be fun to try something in the vicinity of Whittier/Portage.

As others have mentioned, a 3-person tent just doesn't work a that well for three people on an extended duration trip. A four-person tent (like the Bombshelter) would be a good way to go, but my two cents is that you should bring a 3-person tent AND a megamid. Use the tent for sleeping only (no gear storage or cookin) and use the megamid for hanging out, cooking, and storing gear. Leave the megamid behind when you head up to 17,000ft and just pack the tent.

A couple years ago when I was getting organized for a two-week ski trip in the Waddington Range I came across this page regarding the 'Warren Miller' trip to climb/ski Waddington: http://www.marksynnott.com/expeditions/waddington.shtml The folks who are in the movie did climb it rather than getting dropped off on top...they had a basecamp at the col between Wadd & Combatant...they just used Mike King's heli service for the approach, like most everyone does. I was surprised that the Cold Fusion movie did a rather poor job of showing just how spectacular the Waddington Range is. Perhaps they had better footage that ended up on the cutting room floor so they could show the tumble over the 'schrund. Going there and skiing around you'll see far more mindblowing terrain than what ended up in the film (just my two cents). Also kinda funny that that tumble which shows up in the movie wasn't even on Waddington itself...from the trip report on the link above, it sounds like after they flew back to Mike King's ranch, they squeezed in one day of actual 'heli skiing' elsewhere nearby for additional footage and thats when the fella went over the schrund.

great TR!....nice work getting way out there solo!

1- knowledge of how to use your avy beacon...or friends who will be instructing you how to use beacon before your trip. they ain't much good unless you know what to do with it if theres a slide. 2- shovel & avy probe....that beacon won't be much use without these two items. have fun, good luck.

I asked a similar question back when Ryland and I headed to Denali...check out the replies http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/136063/page/0/fpart/1 my favorite item besides the megamid was our pressure cooker, it let us cook spaghetti in about five minutes even at 14,000ft...saved us quite a bit of fuel.

Martin at Sturtevants over in Bellevue is a fantastic boot-fitter...might be worth giving them a call and seeing if they'll work with tele boots, I've had them tweak alpine and AT boots before and they've done great work and not charged that much either.

heres the TR i wrote from doing the traverse the first week in July last summer Trip report glacier crossings were cake that time of year...there was a snow moat at red ledges that made for some spicy scrambling, so we detoured around it via an adjacent snow gully...that was the only puzzle we encountered.

where did you start from to do this trip? just curious...i'm not too familiar with how one accesses the persis/index area. thanks!

fyi, costco carries packages of vacuum-sealed precooked bacon that does not need refrigeration as long as its kept in its original packaging...its awesome on long trips

hopefully harvesting corn on the sw side of red mtn tomorrow before the clouds start to roll in and spoil the spring skiing goodness....only wish i'd had this whole week off so i coulda done more with the nice weather.