USGS map of Mt Shuksan?

[joejr]

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=48.83111&lon=-121.60167

 

Is Winnies Slide mislabeled on the USGS map?

 

Is The Hourglass really Hell's Highway?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[letsroll]

don't remember about winnies slide, but hourglass is really hells's highway. Have not traveled to that spot, but in planning a North face climb that we had to bail on I discovered the problem looking at the pics in guide books (our decent route).

[MisterMo]

Winnies Slide = the steep snow slope between top of Fischer Chimneys and the Curtis Glacier

 

Hell's Highway = the "flat" on upper Curtis Glacier that you stroll across

 

Hourglass = the snow/ice exit from curtis Glacier to the upper Sulphide

 

I don't have a map here to see how the gov labels it.

 

oops, duh, you linked one. I think the Hourglass is correctly labeled, but Winnies Slide is not.

Edited May 18, 2006 by MisterMo

[genepires]

Hells Highway is the major glacier chute between the sulphide and curtis glacier. It is called hells highway due to the bizarre tortured crevassed nature there. Hells highway is definately not the flat part of anything.

 

Hourglass is a steep gulley to the left of hells highway (maybe four hundred yards) that has some thick waterice in the winter (visable from ski area) and holds snow for part of the summer. A spicier alternative to the highway.

 

As per Beckey guide.