Whitehorse on Friday?

[zoroastr]

Ejohnson and I are planning a couple of mini-adventures in the next week:

1. a trip up Whitehorse.

2. a biggish snowshoe trek in the Alpine Lakes area.

 

Since both outings will likely entail a fair amount of trail breaking, any additional pairs of fast legs would be welcome. We've both already done WH in the winter, and found it to be a fun snow ascent. It's more aerobic than technical, but throw your crampons in the pack for the summit bump anyway--no ropes needed.

The alternate plan is a 10+ mile shoe up the Denny Creek valley, up and over Melakway Pass, under Roosevelt, and on to Snow Lake and back via a short road section from Alpental--should be pretty. We're going to do both in the next week or so, but we'd like to save Whitehorse for the best weather window.

 

In the interest of full disclosure, we'd like to get both of these done off-lamp, so we're planning to move pretty quickly.

 

Should be a blast!

Edited December 13, 2005 by zoroastr

[cfire]

Which route on Whitehorse? Justin and I attempted the Whitehorse glacier route yesterday. We got to the top of the last big waterfall in 2 1/2 hrs. We were still a long way from the glacier and the going got worse above. There was very little snow on the last traverse right on ledges...just enough to add some serious spice . It was brutal bushwacking and wallowing in snow up to our sacks to get to that point. There's not enough snow and what there is is not solid enough to get on top of. The weather was moving in so we bailed.

 

At least you can follow our boot tracks that far, which will help.

 

Have fun!

[zoroastr]

Thx for the beta. We were going to use one of the two routes we've used b4: either the main trail or straight up from the mine entrance, keeping well above and to the right of the creek--it's a nasty 'schwack for an hour or so, but puts you on more or less open slopes up to the firn. Will post some snaps if we find our way up....