Mt Baker, Park Glacier question

[DPS]

Hello,

 

If you have done the Park Glacier route on Mount Baker, would you recommend a second ice tool? How about ice screws?

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[mattp]

I did it in late summer a few years back and we found little use for the second tool. We encountered one place where we had to leave the glacier and climb 50 feet on crumbly rock to get around a crevasse, and the bergshrund below the final headwall required some digging in deep slop and I may have used the second tool briefly - ramming the shaft in piolet style. I could certainly have used my partners axe just and then sent it back to him via the rope just as easily as carrying a second tool.

 

I would be surprised if you found a use for ice screws.

[DPS]

Thanks Matt!