[TR] Mt Baker - North Face climb, Coleman-Deming ski 8/1/2010

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Trip: Mt Baker - North Face climb, Coleman-Deming ski

 

Date: 8/1/2010

 

Trip Report:

V and I were tossing around ideas for the weekend and finally decided that we'd tick off the N Ridge but make the endeavor a little more enjoyable and take some skis with us for the way down.

The end result was a supermaxed, relaxed, chillaxed, hootenanny of a day.

 

We kicked it off at the poor man's TH (before the forest pass sign) at 2:30am, fudged the approach and ended right next to the seracs, took a leisurely stroll across the Coleman glacier, and got to the 'shrund at a "good enough" 9:20am. Steps were pre-kicked by groups ahead and so we rejoiced and were at the base of the ice at 11ish.

 

V had spent numerous hours sharpening her tools in anticipation of bulletproof dinner-platiness paradise and instead found some AIfun-times. We pulled the rope out for about 250' of this goodness.

 

Some more walking and you can see the summit bosom. We get there about 1:30pm and the summit was as small and pimply as I remembered. We were looking forward to sliding the fark out of there and other climbers walking down wished they were as cool as we were. All they had were lots of plunge-stepping to look forward to. We took it easy and made it back to our sneakers at 4ish, back at the car at 6pm.

 

One word to describe the day - SICK AND EPIC!!

 

 

 

 

Is this the CD?

 

These dudes are the dots:

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=971636

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delightful

 

The hills are alive with the sound of "Man, I'm freaking tired. Let's get some food"

 

Gear Notes:

3 screws

 

Approach Notes:

Keep an eye for the sign that points to climber's trail. Go there and not to the Glacier vista.

[summitchaserCJB]

holy cheese those are some pics! +1 point for bringing skis.

[YocumRidge]

D&V: Badness!

 

Is this the CD?

Looks more like the SS on Hood which was BTW a brittle dinnerplatiness in May, especially on a "hardman" variation by the middle rockband.

 

No signs of my bailout gear on the ice cap?

[summitchaserCJB]

oh that was your picket? Short thing? That looked like an epic drop.

[Bronco]

Sick!

[mountainmatt]

Sweet!

 

Good job on avoiding that monster at the top of the mountain as

well!

 

 

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[alecapone]

Epic spinion and cbcbcbcbcbcdoug!!

 

Try and smile and enjoy the climb a little, eh?

 

How do you think the climb would go as a ski decsent right now?

Edited August 4, 2010 by alecapone

[JoshK]

How do you think the climb would go as a ski decsent right now?

 

lol?

[silence]

yikes .. that's some pretty bad ass stuff .. way to go

Edited August 4, 2010 by silence

[zoroastr]

Very, very kewl shots! Especially the flailing ice tool pic...it should go in Webster's next to the word "stoked." Congrats!

[telemarker]

Bonus stoke points for turns in August! Nice going you two!

[spionin]

thanks all!

 

Sweet!

Good job on avoiding that monster at the top of the mountain as

well!

 

 

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it sent down rockfall that nearly pancaked doug at one point.

 

How do you think the climb would go as a ski decsent right now?

 

scotty, it's not hard blue ice, but it certainly ain't snow either. don't want to be negative or anything, but while climbing it never crossed my mind to ski down the ridge here's what it looked like:

[Doug Smith]

This is a great trip report. Thank you for sharing!

[Atraslin]

Great photos and style.Thats the way to go.You get a wicked climb in then a sweet descent, save the legs from the dreaded downclimb.