[TR] Mt. Washington- North Ridge 4/10/2004

[Doug_Hutchinson]

Climb: Mt. Washington-North Ridge

 

Date of Climb: 4/10/2004

 

Trip Report:

Keith Daellenbach and I realized Keith's dream of a "winter" ascent of Washington about three weeks too late. We skied from the Ray Benson snowpark to the base of the west bowl. Ran up bowl to the NR notch. The crux was the first 5.1 pitch which was mostly snow covered rock and a little water ice for some nice mixed spice. We answered the age-old question to confirm that a shitty choss pitch covered with snow still climbs like a shitty choss pitch. From there, mostly steep snow to summit. Another beautiful day (will it ever end?) in the Cascades.

 

Gear Notes:

XC skis

2 tools

Pickets, 1 screw, few cams

GPS with waypoints from Keith's dad (thanks Dad!)

 

Approach Notes:

Get GPS from Keith's dad

[iain]

nice! finally an end to the monotony of mt hood reports

[MtnHigh]

nice! finally an end to the monotony of mt hood reports

Well said.

 

Oh yah, nice climb Doug.

[luvshaker]

Pics?

[steepconcrete]

was it real windy up there...hoodoo had green closed cause of it.

[Doug_Hutchinson]

No pics - I only shoot slides but didn't bring a camera, too bad because the route looked awesome. Way windy!! Kept things up high solid though.