Baker : Park Glacier/Cockcomb/Park-Boulder cutoff?

[thomashouse]

We're heading to Baker next week and planning to hike in via the Ptarmigan Ridge trail and make camp at the Portals or Flats for a couple nights. Has anyone been up the Park Glacier direct, Cockcomb, or Park-Boulder cutoff late this season? I have not been to the area before and I don't know exactly what to expect in mid-August on these routes. Are the bergshrunds passable? Are any snow-bridges safe?

 

Thanks for your help...

 

-House

[pbelitz]

We climbed the Boulder/Park Cleaver to the Park HW on Sunday. Quite passable, and the schunds are pretty easy to nagivate.

 

Descending the Boulder back to the cleaver is still possible.

 

I don't know if the Park proper still goes, it's starting to look pretty crevassed, but I didn't look very closely. The Cleaver is definitely worth your while, though.

[John_Scurlock]

I went by there yesterday morning, you can look at a couple of shots of it here:

 

http://www.pbase.com/nolock/image/47493612

http://www.pbase.com/nolock/image/47493615

 

I'll leave those up for a week or two.

[thomashouse]

Great pictures, John. Thanks!