Need Beta - Crater Rock to Highway 35

[barkernews]

I'm thinking of skinning up to Crater Rock and trying to ski down the White River Glacier to Highway 35 tomorrow. Anyone done this that can offer any advice? Is this recommended? Any beta would be great! Thanks!

[Couloir]

The skinning up will be fabulous...all the way to CR. It is really awesome snow right now.

 

On the WRG descent, maybe Iain or someone else can speak more to this, but I'd be careful on this right now. There hasn't been THAT much snow up there. I would be nervous skiing that glacier this early. However, the WRG has the benefit of having a lot of what fell last week on the Palmer blown into it filling in a lot of the cracks. It doesn't take much to smooth things over.

 

Maybe be on the safe side and just don't go alone. Then at least if one of you drop , the other can get to the other quickly. Otherwise, have a blast.

[cicleclimb]

I'd think seriously about avalanche's too. In upper heather at meadow's I saw a 6 foot avalanche crown - scary stuff.

[kioti]

Couloir is right about the conditions, they were awesome on Thursday all the way up. I was in White River Drainage a few weeks ago, and it still needed to fill in. With the dump of snow last week, that very well might have been filled in, but I know that the river crossings were a little sketch.

 

Have fun!

[Couloir]

I'm thinking of skinning up to Crater Rock and trying to ski down the White River Glacier to Highway 35 tomorrow. Anyone done this that can offer any advice? Is this recommended? Any beta would be great! Thanks!

Did you end up doing this? How was it??

[barkernews]

No. We wimped out, slept late and skinned up towards Triangle Moraine. It was actually pretty sweet. We parked in Govy, hitched to Timberline and skinned up. The ride back down was great. Alpine was pretty icy, though. We're gonna wait until there's more snow... Thanks for the advice!!!