Ingals peak approach

[alpine_freak]

has anyone done ingals recently? i am wondering what type of terrain we will be walking on to the climb? Boots , Snowshoes, Skins?

[Alpinfox]

This thread has the most recent info I've seen:

Teanaway River Road

 

You may want to call the Cle Elum Ranger Station at (509) 674-4411 to get updated info. Please post here if you decide to call and let us know what you find out.

 

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p.s. From the Wenatchee NF website :

"#9737 North Fork Teanaway Road is open and melted out to Beverly Campground"

Edited May 14, 2004 by Alpinfox

[sobo]

..."#9737 North Fork Teanaway Road is open and melted out to Beverly Campground"

 

Ouch! Sounds like a long ski in.

 

Or a quick ride on a snowmo...

[Squid]

A friend was up there this weekend, & claimed snow added an extra six miles to the approach.

 

Of course, I don't believe anything this guys says.

[To_The_Top]

The approach is better than reported on the rangers site (call the ranger as the recording was more current). I believe you can go all the way to the trailhead now, as we went pretty close last weekend, like less than a mile from the trailhead (we were going somewhere else). Cars were driving up and it looked pretty clear ahead. There were some snow patches that scraped the car bottom a little, but it was open 5 or 6 miles past Beverly.

TTT

[russ]

Try this report: http://www.turns-all-year.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=tr0405;action=display;num=1084155205

[Heavy_B]

this may help a little. I didn't head over Ingalls this weekend, but I did go in over Beverly-Turnpike. We hit snow at approx. 5000' on the south side and it was solid snow from the pass down the north side. It was pretty soft, but we didn't need snowshoes. I would imagine that you would hit the same type of snow heading up to Ingalls and the traverse over would be solid snow up to the peak.

[RichardKorry]

I was up there on Sunday 5/16. You can drive to the trailhead and the trail is for a 200-300' vertical before you start hitting consisent snow. The snow was generally pretty mushy with some recent snow sluffing off but that should consolidate soon.

[moonrover]

I was up there on Sunday too! Beautiful up there. We were going to see about climbing the route, but the North peak was socked in clouds the whole time. Didn't want to attempt it for the first time w/o being able to see where I was going. Next time. It was an awesome hike nonetheless.

The road was dry all the way to the trailhead. No problems there.