Dome Peak - Bachelor Creek suggestion...

[erik]

u rule dude!

[daylward]

You're right, the trail does cross the creek there. The weekend before (with forrest_m and Christopher Fast), we crossed it on a piece of alder that was sorta wallowing in the stream without getting our feet wet. We saw the trail sporadically (between snowpatches) going up on the right side of the creek. As Forrest explained in his post, it was easy going staying right of the creek and avalanche debris until we had to make the commitment and cross the debris. At that point, we found the debris field to be not as difficult as expected as we ascended up to the bench - we chose a line that was largely clear of obstacles, heading toward and then slightly right of an obvious outcropping of rock. We crossed the switchbacks of the trail several times on the slope, but it was impossible to stay on the trail very long due to all the fallen trees etc. so we just kept going straight up which was not very difficult.

 

The advantage of staying right is that it ends up being a shorter distance. Cub Lake Pass is on the right end of the bench anyway, so you end up closer. You may even be able to stay in the forest totally to the right of the avalanche, all the way up to the bench? But it's good to know that it goes on the left side too. Thanks

 

Dan

 

[ 07-16-2002, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: daylward ]

[Stefan]

This is a suggestion.

 

We climbed Dome Peak this past weekend. We followed the climber's path up Bachelor Creek to where it peters out at 4200 feet. I think the trail crosses the creek at this point, but I don't know. Here is my suggestion: We went left through about 150 meters of okay brush and into the forest without crossing the creek. The forest then turns out to be awesome without undergrowth. We stayed left of the avalanche debris in the forest until we came to the bench at 5400 feet to the right of Mule Lake. From there we walked on the wide hillside bench (which is just above the avalanche debris) directly up to Cub Lake Pass.