Pred Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Trip: North Cascades - Mt Chalenger/Whatcom Peak via Easy Ridge Date: 7/7/2007 Trip Report: Group of 6 climbed it in 4 days (+ 4 hours to Hanneagn Pass night before).Had awesome weather and worked our butts off. Camped at Easy Ridge and did 2 day climbs: Whatcom peak as a ridge traverse(3rd to 4th class)and pitched 50 ft section before false summit when rock got wet. We figured "imperfect impasse" on the way back,fixed a rope over it and used it next day on the way to Challenger. Bergshrund at the top had one last bridge standing and giving a hot weather can't say how long it's going to be there. Great trip with even better company.Haven't seen any people once we crossed Chilliwack river but have seen tracks on final summit portion. Gear Notes: Light racks(small nuts, bottom4 Camp tri-cams,couple cams pickets,two 9mm ropes Approach Notes: Long,some steep snow sections Quote
Pred Posted July 17, 2007 Author Posted July 17, 2007 I'm trying to figure out how to do it (I don't have a web site)and this part (posting etc. is new experience) Beta anyone? Quote
Off_White Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 If you click on the "gallery" up at the top, you can upload your pictures to this site. Try to keep the images at 800x600 so they fit on most screens. Then, in your TR thread, just click on the little camera icon you'll see when writing a reply, and it will give you thumbnails of pictures from your photos in the gallery, and you just click one to put it in the post. There are several ways to post photos, but that's probably the most simple. Quote
Pred Posted July 17, 2007 Author Posted July 17, 2007 OK ,OK ,so there is a long way for me to go, to learn the ways of "magic machines"....So how do I add text to those pics? Is it just add pic,write the text below, etc? Thanks for the guidance! Pred Quote
Cobra_Commander Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 wow looks like the impasse still has a good amount of snow in there. Quote
Pred Posted July 17, 2007 Author Posted July 17, 2007 There is a lot of snow in the "Chasm of Death" In general,snow was a bit tricky,soft on the top and hard bellow.We found crampons with anti-balling plates quite handy(using them as they are not there) pics;1,2 getting on Easy Ridge 3,4 Whatcom and Challenger 5 starting ridge traverse on whatcom 6 impasse (I guess not-it did help to figure it out in reverse ;thanks to you guys for prvious posts on the route) 7 Shuksan,Baker (don't know why it's fuzzy) 8 arete to summit 9 even rocks are soft enough after climb like this OK not most elegant way of adding text but it works... Quote
Lisa_D Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Pred, looks like an amazing trip! Mitch sent me some photos. I climbed Baker in a whiteout that same weekend..not quite as spectacular! Quote
Toast Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Ya, this would've made the Imperfect Impasse perfectly passable. How exposed was the Class 3 at the top of Whatcom Peak? Quote
Pred Posted July 17, 2007 Author Posted July 17, 2007 3rd and 4th class exposed most of the way .Biggest problem was loosness of it.We moved together in two smaller teams and tried to climb diagonally to the slope...It got cloudy and a bit slippery at the top of false summit pitch and we moved left into low 5th class terrain with some pro and pitched it(cow tailed 2 at the time-maybe 75 feet...) Hey Lisa, we are getting together in Boundary at 7 for some "carbo-loading" come to play... Quote
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