Easton Glacier access and Schreiber's Meadow?

[Toast]

Anyone been up to Schreiber's Meadow lately?  Looking for road conditions and whether flotation will be needed to access the seracs for crevasse rescue practice. 

[Kameron]

They just ran the skimo race up there. A few weeks ago we could drive within 2 miles of the trailhead before snow. Access is probably perfect for skiing right now, and I believe the snowmobiles are still going up there (so >3 ft at Schreiber's).

I would recommend flotation.

[Kameron]

Saw on Facebook, no more snowmobiles for the season

[JasonG]

Thanks Kam!

[Toast]

@Kameron Thanks so much. Which FB group?

[Kameron]

17 hours ago, Toast said:

@Kameron Thanks so much. Which FB group?

I'm a member of the NW Glacier Cruisers group

[Toast]

Here's some beta from this weekend, May 24-25. Snow on the road blocked access to the Schreiber’s meadow about half a mile short of the parking lot. I doubt that will melt out in the week, but snow down low is going fast. We took the summer route up to the Railroad Grade. I would not recommend that. It cost us an extra hour or more of climbing over snow obstacles. The week prior, Friday 5/16 through Tuesday 5/20, there was 3.5 inches of water equivalent that fell, or more than three feet of fresh snow up high. We brought show shoes and were thankful. We did not find any open crevasses to use for crevasse rescue practice, and I doubt those are going to open up any time soon. I probed an obvious depression in the area we typically use for this. While I did find a crevasse, the shallowest breakthroughs were at 230 cm down. We saw a large, group up high just below the open seracs. I don’t know for sure that they found any open crevasses, but they were stationary up there for several hours, so there may or may not be usable open crevasses up high around 7,000’. There were tons of loose wet avalanches on steeper terrain all around. Down low, snow bridges around the creek are collapsing. Be careful around those. Hopefully this is useful for others out there.