Arrowhead Mtn.

[telemarker]

If you want a tour that has minimum effort for maximum payoffs, this is it. Skinned to the top of Arrowhead today, just east of Jim Hill. Even though the snow conditions were variable between windscoured crust to 4" of pow, the true point of the tour was the 360 view from the summit. Rainier was visible, Rock Mtn. and other Nason Ridge summits. Sloan to the west. Hinman and Daniels. But most impressive of all are the Chiwaukums. There is so much touring to be had back there. It felt like spring, warm and sunny, and no one else around for such a popular summit. Maybe it has something to do with being the middle of the work week? Sitting at the summit I made a promise to never get stuck in a cubicle again.

[JERRY_SANCHEZ]

HOW DO YOU GET UP THERE? I'VE BEEN TO JIM HILL DOZENS OF TIMES SO DO YOU PARK AT THE SAME SPOT?

THANKS FOR THE INFO

[mattp]

Park at the east portal for the train tunnel, and head up the logging road that departs south from highway 2 a couple hundreds to the east. Follow this road into a clearcut, and climb to the upper left corner of that clearcut. Follow the logging road out and left a couple hundred yards, then cut up and right into or climb up the woods next to a second (higher) clearcut. From the top left corner of this one, head up and left to a glade below a rocky outcrop. Pass the outcrop on the right, and more glades lead up to the summit.

This tour is mostly on west or northwest aspects and can be a safer alternative after a heavy snow when the usual southwest winds have created a wind-slab hazard for runs like the northeast facing bowl on Jim Hill.

[ 02-21-2002: Message edited by: mattp ]