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Ruth Mountain 7-5/7-6


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Nice mellow weekend of July turns on Ruth Mountain.

Hiked in Saturday in light drizzle and Ruth was totally hidden in the clouds. The climb above Hannegan Pass was nasty! patchy snow with a climbers trail that was a mud filled trough. On the way up we did spot what looked like a finger of continuous snow off to climbers right that would've been a better ascent route, camped at the last stand of trees below the glacier and skinned up to the top around 7pm and got a nice run back down the north aspect to camp before the clouds closed in again. Sunday morning had two more runs off the top, smoothest corn was on the east and northeast aspects, softened up by about 11am, nothwest facing slopes still firm then. Skiing back towards Hannegan Pass we did find that finger of continuous snow that took us all the way to Hannegan Camp below the pass.

On the hike out we could see that several of the chutes below the glacier were still continous straight down to Ruth creek...would've been a fun option had we been able to see them on our approach hike on saturday.

Hadn't been on Ruth before...hell of a great view for such an easy trip.

- brought rope- didn't use it, brought crampons-didn't need them. Only two tiny crevasses visible right now on the glacier.

 

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