[TR] Shuksan - sulphide + pyramid 1/22/2010

[danhelmstadter]

Trip: Shuksan - sulphide + pyramid

 

Date: 1/22/2010

 

Trip Report:

I left the TH a little late ~8:30, not to stoked about the cold I had woken up with.

 

Summited in the warm windless afternoon. I skiied the pyramid chute from ~15 feet below the summit (too much rime ice on the lip of the ridge to ski from exact summit) lots of soft variable and rime in the chute, then crust-variable conditions down the Sulphide, but there were fun turns had.

 

Here is a recent arial pic of the upper route, taken by John Scurlock on the 19th of Jan. Thanks John!

http://www.pbase.com/nolock/image/121248282

 

I didn't take too many pics, just a few on the summit.

 

 

 

[yesman]

Looks like a great trip - could you drive to the trailhead and were you able to skin from the lot?

 

Thanks

[danhelmstadter]

I could drive to the trailhead in my '83 2wd beater, there was a ways of dirt-trail hikeing before the skinning began.