High camps on coleman deming route?

[hakioawa]

What/wher are the best/highest camps (above 7,000') on the coleman deming route? Thinking about next weekend.

[Mr._Natural]

at the Colfax Peak saddle/col ~9k

[catbirdseat]

Why would you want to lug your overnight gear so high on the mountain? Marmot Camp is where I'd go. It's at about 7200'.

 

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[thelawgoddess]

i usually camp on the glacier beneath the black buttes (also ca. 9,000 ft)

[erik]

WHY CAMP AT ALL????

 

DAY ROUTE!!!!!

[Dru]

Single Pusher

[JoshK]

I did baker for the first time the other day (granted, by the NR, not C/D) but I can't see the logic in doing it as an overnighter. That heliotrope ridge trailhead puts you pretty close to the mountian. I'd do anything I could do avoid hauling overnight crap up there.

[hakioawa]

I'd prefer to do it an a day. Ski down have have and in B-ham for lunch. But its not in the cards. I'm just trying to get an extra couple hours of sleep.

[mattp]

It is definitely BELOW 7200, but the moraine/bench before you get onto the glacier makes a pretty good high camp. If you go up that first hill to the flat area alongside the Heliotrope Ridge, you will be about At 7200 and you may be able to find a dry piece of rock to at least cook on. Any higher, and I think you will be both cooking and sleeping on snow unless you perhaps carry all the way up to the saddle.

[thelawgoddess]

it's not THAT far to the black buttes, and there's nothing wrong with doing the climb in more than one day. for crying out loud, not everybody's in such a hurry, and i (for one) love camping on the snow. waking up on a glacier when the moon and the stars are still out is an awesome experience.

[JoshK]

Independent of this conversation, camping on the snow is great, but it's the time of year when I really really appreciate a non-snow place to sit and cook. Nothing like warm rock to chill out on.

[thelawgoddess]

i don't know. yesterday afternoon i would have really appreciated some cold snow.