Glacier Peak Access Washout ?!

[Scramblin_Jones]

It's gotta be even harder now to get to the summit of Glacier Peak with all the 2006 road / trail damage added to the 2003 road / trail damage.

 

I'm thinking about trying the Cool glacier route - from Buck Creek Pass drop into the Upper Suiattle River valley, up Streamline Ridge between the Cool and Chocolate glaciers, onto the Cool glacier, ascending traverse to Disappointment Rock, then up the S ridge to the summit.

 

Any info out there on this approach / route, like:

 

- What type of crevasse difficulties are we likely to find on the Cool glacier above 8000 ft?

 

- What type of brush bash should we expect on Streamline Ridge?

 

- What type of terrain / vegetation would we encounter off trail in the upper Suiattle River area to get to and across the Honeycomb glacier?

 

- What type of crevasses would we encounter on the Honeycomb glacier?

 

- anyone ever descended the Lightning Creek valley?

 

(Note - this post moved from Climbers forum to this forum.)

[ncascademtns]

Try the North Fork Sauk to White Pass. You can catch the Cool Glacier from there.

[Kraken]

I'll second that. We came in to attempt Glacier two summers ago from the N. Sauk Trail and were turned around at the Whitechuck Glacier by nasty weather. The trail is great, and the dying Whitechuck Glacier still offers easy travel to the flanks of the peak. Great approach, not too strenuous.