WA/OR ice conditions 24/25

[bedellympian]

Hoping for a good local season! There is snow on the ground at 4k' and more coming. Some warm temps in the forecast bringing rain. Hopefully that's followed by more cold and then some things are in really nice shape! 🤞

[eksather]

Little bit of ice coming in up the icicle. Left buttress on eightmile is pretty thin/mixed but climbable. 

[korengalois]

eksather you have recs for TR ice routes in Leavenworth? 

[AlexC192]

They were right. The best ice in Washington is in Montana! Dribbles in Hyalite Wednesday Dec. 11!

Stoked to be ready for ice season in the Cascades tho! If your willing to suffer a lot and/or have a sled send me a message. I have a sled and stoke and a weird love for being cold and scared 🤘🏿

[dberdinka]

If anyone is thinking of Colfax with this high pressure. As of 1/13 the Cosley-Houston is not formed, though the Polish Route looks like it may have connected.   North and east side of Lincoln look like the future of local Alpinism.

Edited January 14 by dberdinka

[Michael Telstad]

On 1/14/2025 at 8:30 AM, dberdinka said:

If anyone is thinking of Colfax with this high pressure. As of 1/13 the Cosley-Houston is not formed, though the Polish Route looks like it may have connected.   North and east side of Lincoln look like the future of local Alpinism.

Holy shit. Polish hadn’t even crossed my mind. Any pictures of Kimchi Suicide?

[dberdinka]

Don’t think so.  Everything but polish looked thinner than typical to me.

[Kameron]

I had my zoom camera on a ski up the Coleman yesterday, so I got some pictures of the cruxes for you hardcores. We made the saddle and rode down from there. The glacier skied ok despite being pretty variable, but the best snow was in Grouse. There are some annoying new blowdowns in the forest, but it still went ok on the down. I would prefer the trail up until there's significant snowfall down to the trailhead elevation. You can drive nearly to the trailhead.

[Kameron]

The ice dagger definitely connects. I saw some tracks from Deming saddle to Colfax, so somebody may have climbed a route there recently and came down; I'm not sure.

[tr0y]

if we're all going to run a train on this thing on Saturday, can someone plan to climb it before 9am so there's nice pick holes for me to draft off of? 

[korengalois]

2 minutes ago, tr0y said:

if we're all going to run a train on this thing on Saturday, can someone plan to climb it before 9am so there's nice pick holes for me to draft off of? 

😂

[Bronco]

Saw some climbers coming off of Goat Wall near Mazama.  Sounds like some of those climbs are in.

[zaworotiuk]

Black Spider is not in. Mt Hood ice scene is pretty sad currently.

[Lostbolt]

Speaking of Trains, great booter trail from bridge creek to the base of the cliffs. Was a little wet but getting better