Park Creek Pass access (Goode, Logan, Storm King)

[BlackHawk]

No matter how you slice it it's going to be at least a 20 mile hike just to get to Park Creek Pass this year. Given the transportation hassles associated with the Stehekin approach, Thunder Creek might not be such a bad approach option if the major bridge crossing were in, but reportedly there is a flagged bushwhack heading up the east side of Diablo Arm as a workaround. Has anyone been to the Park Creek Pass area recently? Any beta on camps, trail conditions, the SW Couloir of Goode, the Freemont Glacier, or Storm King?

[Blake]

 

 

First of all, see my TR here: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/s...aad4#Post479195

 

The apprach from Stehekin: if you are limited to the shuttle bus, you can be driven to the 9 mile point on the road, and then bike 8 more miles to the Park Creek TRailhead.. with 8 more miles on trail to park Creek. If you can make connections with a private party in stehekin for a ride and/or bike loan (pm or email me) then you can drive to the 13 mile point on the road.

Fremont glacier is an easy walk up with little to no crevasse danger! Storm king should not be approached from park creek pass, or from near the pass as suggested in Beckey and elsewhere. The best bet is to head down park creek trail until the 4.5 mile point, 5 minutes uphill of a giant washout. Turn left through the woods at a 10' snag and small cairn, and follow the climbers' trail up the ridgeline that borders the washout to the meadows below Goode and Storm King. From there Storm king is a 4th class scramble. The SW Coloir on Goode will not have snow, expect choss and loose rock.. nice bivy spots below. Meadows roughyl 1/4 mile on either side of P.C. pass will be nice for camping and have water. I've talked to several people who have come over the pass from Thunder Creek with no bridge difficulties.

[BlackHawk]

Nice TR, Blake. I plan to spend about a week in the area this month and hope to find the same kind of weather window you had in July. I can take a summit register back to Logan if needed - so do the Mountaineers actually have an "official" replacement at the bookstore. The common spiral notebook seems to be working. I will contact you for biking info.

[Blake]

i took the full paper thingy and mailed it to them. the cannister and a few scraps remain (as of 7/22)