sisu Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 i have been on the coast for a month and woefully out of touch with the amount of snowfall the volcanoes have received. what is it like up there right now, snowpack-wise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Pinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumpetsailor Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Sunday found ~6-8" of fresh at Cold Springs, more than that near the Crescent Glacier, boilerplate and some blue ice with powder drifts on the Lunch Counter and up Pikers, funky blue ice rime formations across most of the cap (far more than late winter-summer), and slightly powdery boilerplate up to the summit of Adams. Â One of our group blew an edge and took an impressive sliding fall coming down Pikers. Crampons bit nicely. Â Everywhere with good snow had rocks beneath. Skis are scratched but happy. Â St.Helens looked snowy with rocks on the cleavers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prussik1 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 If you are planning on going, make sure to have chains/snowtires. We attempted to climb from cold springs cg but couldn't make it to the cg due to solid sheets of ice on the road. Another van passed us with no problem that had chains on. Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc313 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Mt.Adams South Climb update as of 12-6-08  Road to Cold Springs is in great shape 20 plus trees have been cut out of the roadway(thanks to whoever?) to Cold Springs TH clean to 7,000ft then snow, 2' plus at 8,000ft.,snow and ice to the top,looks like "June" Don't need a Forest pass tell 12-18-08 to park at TH. spent 3 day camping and climging left Sat. windswere 10-40 mph plus making the top of the snow ice at night,no running water and i don't know why no ones up there?  From Trout Lake From Hood River,Or. Mt.St.Helen from 8,600ft. camp Sunset Kool cloud above Lunch counter sunset  on the way down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Nice pics! Thanks for getting out and posting about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchez Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 St Helens on saturday 01/17/09: Marble mount is open again, maybe 30 total people climbing that day. Snow is still 3 feet deep even at 2700 feet, skinning was good although icy and lots of deep footprints. Despite the warm temps, things remained pretty hard until well after noon. Skiing back down was all time though, perfect 1" corn on top of firm, with a few hundred feet through some softer mush around 4500ft. There are some booby traps and hazards on the route, so watch yourself, especially coming down. My buddy almost skied off a blind drop/false horizon near treeline that would have messed him up good. Avy danger was so low I wondered why I even brought my beacon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortstow Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 anybody been up on Adams? Curious how the route is up and how far you can get up the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropegoat Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Shortstow, Â I'm in PDX. Want to go take a look tomorrow? I was thinking about taking a look at either St. Helens or Adams. Totally guessing, it'd be an adventure. Really just looking to split gas with someone in that direction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortstow Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I have to do a shift at work tomorrow morning, but should be free to head that way in the afternoon(2'ish). Maybe St. Helens, get to the tree line tomorrow and then up and out on Sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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