Shuksan North Face - Doable in a day?

[wscottf]

I'm short on time (just had a kid) and really want to get Shuksan NF done. Does anyone have an idea if it's doable in a day? Both my partner and I are strong, fast climbers, but neither of us have done the route (partner has done Fisher Chimneys, so we've got the descent covered).

 

Any thoughts or beta are welcome.

 

Thanks!

[curtveld]

It’s certainly been ‘car-to-car-ed’ before and the commitment wouldn’t be all that high. If you get to the top of the face and are short on time, you can traverse west across the Hanging Glacier and descend either the Chimneys or the White Salmon Glacier. It’d be a great day out, whether or not you tag the summit. But if you get stuck in the brush on the approach, you’re screwed!

[ivan]

meth

[skykilo]

I've done it in a day, sans meth. Go get it!

[dberdinka]

Very doable in a day. The sooner you go the better though as a snow covered approach will save you LOTS of pain, time and suffering.

[G-spotter]

even in the middle of summer that approach is easily doable in 4 hrs with minimal bush

[Jens]

I'm a slow hiker and I easily did from Seattle to Seattle in a day. A perk is that their is plenty of drinking water to be had on he way in and way out.