N. Sister Conditions

[rocky_joe]

Any word on snow, ice, general route conditions? Pics?

[Maine-iac]

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[godskid5]

did the middle sister, north route via hayden. i have a couple of pics of the south side of north sister if that helps. didnt look too close at it though. waiting for the pics to process. i will post them later when they go through.

[godskid5]

heres a pic from the east, coming up to the hayden glacier area.

 

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and on from about 9000ft on middle sister looking north

[ricklar]

Bump...

 

I'm climbing North with a group this weekend and we're trying to get more or less current conditions. There's a report on Summitpost from 8/3 that shows snow on the traverse... not sure if 13 days would melt it out but it would be nice.

[sparverius]

north sister is scary pile of dog feces late in season. Why not wait till it's snowy and frozen and safer?

[PaulO]

Though the traverse is not really visible in the picture above I can see enough snow showing at the near edge to say it very likely is still covered. Never completely melts until at least September most years. This weekend will be a soft sloppy mess up there with the extreme freezing levels 24/7 several days.

[rocky_joe]

sparverius- we can't really wait since we're trying for a sub 20 hour marathon of the sisters and broken top but not til the 5th of september.

[sparverius]

alright. Be careful up there. It would be fun to wait for snow and do a ski traverse of the mentioned peaks.

[luvshaker]

The snow patch in recent years has really shrunk, and last year was gone by mid August. At least 5 years ago I climbed the route around Sept 1 with no axe or crampons. There was even somewhat of a scramble trail below what existed of the snow patch then.

Made for a quick trip with out having to worry about the steep slush.