MJHBackpacker Posted March 5, 2002 Posted March 5, 2002 Route in good condition 3/4/02. Departed parking lot at ~2:30. Made summit ~9:30. Nothing eventfull to report. Devils kitchen smell normal. Relativly thick ice made downclimb difficult, glissade near impossible (painfull and fast). Bailed out with for self-arrests then decided to walk down. Made for long day. Down in 3 hrs. Guess would be that any new snow will create high avalanche danger over ice layer. No snow shoes required. Happy trails! Quote
b-rock Posted March 5, 2002 Posted March 5, 2002 Summited 3/2. Similar conditions but left the lot later at 6am so snow a bit softer. No 'scround. Next snow (like now) will bring super high avy danger over the top of very well developed surface hoar. Quote
Peter_Baer Posted March 6, 2002 Posted March 6, 2002 I'd guess that the warm temps and 40+ MPH winds preceding the onset of snow would have taken care of any surface hoar that may have developed a few nights ago... Significant avy danger nonetheless due to the ice crust, though, no doubt. Quote
imorris Posted March 6, 2002 Posted March 6, 2002 Glissading must have sucked. I was skiing that stuff, teeth chattering. Frickin' 3D ice marbles. Quote
To_The_Top Posted March 6, 2002 Posted March 6, 2002 MJHB-"no snowshoes required" You must have missed the guy that did it in track shoes with one inch spikes! He got there at the summit at 11:30 am. Quote
jimrudy1970 Posted March 6, 2002 Posted March 6, 2002 We came off of the summit at around 1:30 and it was some of the best glissading that I have done from the base of Crater Rock down. Probably only took us 45 mins. to descend from there. Quote
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