dwellcome Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 Heading up to mt adams/mazama glacier first weekend of november. wondering if anyone has been up there recently? How is it looking so far? how low is the snow, etc..... thanks much! dave Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 I'm looking to go up this weekend. I called the ranger station and they said there is about 2' of new snow at or above 8000'. The ranger make it sound like it would be a bit of working getting up it. Quote
dwellcome Posted October 9, 2007 Author Posted October 9, 2007 bit of work eh? sounds good to me! let me know how it is when you get back would ya? are you doing the mazama glacier, or south ridge? Â Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 First time up, so we are going the south spur. This will be my wife's first trip with crampons and Ice axe in hand, so we are looking to keep it easy (technically). Hopefully this late in the season there won't be too many folks up there. Â I'll let you know how it looks. Quote
godskid5 Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 looking forward to hearing from you! Good Luck! taking pics? Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 I'm a bit of an amateur photographer so, yes, I will be hauling my camera up the mountain. Quote
godskid5 Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 great, i'd love to see some pics if ya could! have a great trip, looking forward to hearing about it when you get back! Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Adams is in kick your ass condition. The trail is 99% covered with snow from the intersection with the round the mountain trail upwards. It took us 8.5 hours to reach pikers peak, at which point we were exausted and called it a day there. We made it back to the trail head in 3.5 hours. Â I highly recommend a very early start, we started at 5am and I wish now we had started by no later than 4am. We moved fast for the first two hours over the iced snow, making it to about 7900'. But as the sun came up and started softening the snow things got much harder. Â Above the lunch counter there is at least a foot of new snow which I was sinking about 6" inches into with each step. Once you crest pikers peak, that seemed to go up to about 12"-16". The only two guys I know that made the peak that day (they left the trailhead at 4am), said it was another 2 hours to the peak. If you don't have steps to follow it will be very rough. Â It was an absolute blue bird day and no wind. The sun was just beating us down on the Suksdorf ridge up to pikers peak. We both got wicked sunburns on this section. Â Post holing was very bad in the afternoon on the bottom half of the mountain (lunch counter) and down to about 6600'. I'm 6'7" 215lbs. and was going into my thigh. Â All that said we had a great time and at least I now have a good excuse to go up again. I'll post some pics soon. Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 (edited) Â Â Â Â Putting crampons on at about 7800'. I took them off again a ways past the lunch counter. The snow up the face to pikers peak was soft enough that fallling was not a concern. Â Edited October 15, 2007 by Chris_Moorehead Quote
ericb Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 (edited) a lot can change in a week  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=SEW&llon=-122.813747&rlon=-120.963747&tlat=48.002084&blat=46.152084&smap=1&mp=0&map.x=179&map.y=243  can you say Giddy-up!!! Edited October 15, 2007 by ericb Quote
NuClimber07 Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Is that forecast for Adams or the lower lying areas? Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 My legs were shot by the time I got to the top of pikers peak, but had they been in better shape it would have been a blast. The snow is a bit wet and heavy right now, but the 3000' down for pikers peak should be a great run. Quote
godskid5 Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Wow! Lovin' the forcast! Hopefully the snow sticks around for a couple more weeks! Great pics Chris. Did you do the south route the whole way, or did you go up the mazama to the lunch counter? Quote
Chris_Moorehead Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 We went up the south spur route. It was our first trip up and we were starting out at night so I wanted to play it safe. Also it was my wife's first trip with an ice axe and crampons, so I did not feel comfortable taking a harder route. Quote
godskid5 Posted October 27, 2007 Posted October 27, 2007 has anybody else been up on adams lately? either the mazama glacier, or the southtrail? Quote
TyClimber Posted October 27, 2007 Posted October 27, 2007 My bro and I did the Stormy Monday Couloir yesterday, its on the north side. The conditions were pretty good, easy approach still and super solid tool placements on the steep stuff. The snow was all quite hard and we made good time moving over it since we didn't have to deal with any post holing bs. The wind was crazy strong though, it actually blew us over while we were standing on the snow slopes below the route. Quote
godskid5 Posted October 27, 2007 Posted October 27, 2007 sweet! sounds like a lot of fun. did you get any pics? Quote
TyClimber Posted October 27, 2007 Posted October 27, 2007 I got up there only to realize the battery in my camera was dead, bummer! My brother took a couple pics with his cell phone, if any of them are worth posting I will put them up this evening. Quote
jeffh Posted October 28, 2007 Posted October 28, 2007 Conditions for skiing the South Spur are in great shape as of today. Even the SW Chutes look good. Very little wind after sunrise. On way down, made it past the around the mountain trail junction before having to hike back to the car, although the skis took a few rock hits near the end. Nothing a file can't fix. Picture or two in gallery. Quote
RogerJ Posted November 3, 2007 Posted November 3, 2007 Two of us headed up this AM. Â We had hopes of some good conditions given the sun and moderate temps but the skiing was marginal at best. Â The bottom line is that another good layer of snow is needed to get things back in shape. Â -r Quote
ski2die Posted November 10, 2007 Posted November 10, 2007 I am thinking of going for adams this weekend (11/10). I would leave Saturday (tomorrow) after work and camp somewhere around 6-7000ft, then go for the summit on Sunday. Does anyone know what the current snow conditions are going to be like? I would really like to ski it rather than hike if the snow is in reasonable condition. Quote
godskid5 Posted November 10, 2007 Posted November 10, 2007 until today there was some snow at the 6000 ft level but not much. the conditions for this weekend are going to be miserable. high winds, very low temps (teens) and tons of snow. here is the forcast for the next few days for about the 9000ft level of adams. Â http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=PDT&llon=-121.708747&rlon=-119.856247&tlat=47.027084&blat=45.174584&smap=1&mp=0&map.x=28&map.y=114 Â Quote
danhelmstadter Posted November 11, 2007 Posted November 11, 2007 I was surprised yesterday when things cleared in the afternoon, i hightalied it out of gcamp without anykind of weather info banking on somekind of miraculous and unpredicted high pressure, some kind of weather came through last night in h.r. ,, so i shyed off, but looking out the window of the pub, it looks clear now... Quote
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