Mt. Adams--Adams Glacier

[nattybumppo]

Has anyone been up the Adams Glacier or adjacent routes in the past couple of weeks? How are the conditions?

[btowle]

Went up the North Cleaver last weekend. Really rocky . There was a least one team heading up the Adams the day after we left. We had no snow until the summit cap. Lots of rockfall on the Lava glacier down the headwall. Dust hanging in the air for a long time. FS website says that the Adams is still in shape. Looks like if you start right and then angle left there is a line on the Adams. But this was at a distance. Just saw the top up close.

 

Everyone else that I saw (maybe 12 people including us) was doing the North Cleaver.

[J_Fisher]

Went up for a look on 8/25. Except for a dusting of snow from the previous day's storm, the route was all very hard firn and ice, at least to our high point. We had pickets but they were worthless. The glacier itself was pretty much dry but still easy to navigate.

 

We turned around at about 1/4 to 1/3 height because it was too late to be that low on the route and the Wx looked iffy. (2 hrs. later a big lenticular enveloped the summit dome.) From below it appeared like a line roughly approximating the one in the guide books would go at the moment, but with a bit more wandering and a fair bit of technical ice. If you go up there I would recommend 2 technical tools (or at least 2 tools and a long axe that's OK for piolet traxion).