banos Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 (edited) Attempted Olympus a few weeks back... directly following those weeks of crappy wet weather.. Avy danger was thru the roof as the temps rose abruptly.. and all the beta revolved around major post-holing... Didn't really know what to expect as we drove over.. but wtf.. Thankfully the snow level dropped for us from 12k to 5k, and the morn/day of our summit attempt we were putting on frozen boots. We were sitting on the snow ramp below the summit block by 1030... tho we determined it was too encased in snow/ice for us to safely attempt the scramble to the top... We had also planned to traverse across the top to the upper Hoh, beneath East Pk, and then back thru Glacier Pass.. but on our way across, with temps rising, we began punching thru the crust to the unconsolidated snow beneath.. becoming apparent the narrow, steep unsupported band of snow beneath East Pk was not a prudent path... So we headed back thru Crystal and punched knee/thigh deep holes down from Snowdome. All in all we got very lucky with the weather.. and had a great adventure... Middle Pk & neve of the Blue Hoh neve & Athena's Owl Middle Pk East Pk Edited July 6, 2010 by banos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 very nice...thanks for the pictures. a great place to spend time or eternity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndavidjr Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Suggests various memories. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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