Tstab Posted April 8, 2012 Posted April 8, 2012 Trip: Mt Hood - North Face Right Side Date: 4/6/2012 Trip Report: Made a sweet solo trip to the N side of Hood, nice snow on the tilly jane trail, deep snow in the main gully made for slow climbing.The crux ice section was shorter than I expected ,only about 15-20 feet but nearly vertical brittle ice,fun .The summit was strangely unoccupied for such a nice day. I planned to ski cooper spur but when I was on summit some clouds rolled in and i couldnt see, so decided to go to tline and then hitchhike around. turned out to be a good decision, the best powder skiing i have done in oregon. 5am left the truck 11am cross schrund 2pm summit 4pm timberline lodge 11 hours total, not a record but I think its pretty good for my first north side route crossed far left(out of view) and went up above the lower left rock band and traversed right to the gully bad ass steep ice dorky solo summit excellent skiing from hogsback to palmer Gear Notes: fat skis Approach Notes: t jane ski trail up south side down hitch hike around Quote
dougd Posted April 8, 2012 Posted April 8, 2012 Tstab nice work on the route. Thanks for posting the pics. The spur looks ripe. d Quote
JasonG Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 That's quite an ice pitch to climb solo, with skis on your back! Impressive. Quote
B Deleted_Beck Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 Nice work... I really hope to be hitting this'un in the next 3 weeks, and before it's gone for the season. Which way did you go from the top step? Quote
Tstab Posted April 9, 2012 Author Posted April 9, 2012 BenB, from the top ice section I went up and to the right of the big rock outcrop, I zig zagged around a few more rocks then it tops out directly on the summit. It would be possible to go left after the upper ice to join the left couloir, it is not so steep. Quote
B Deleted_Beck Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 Word.. that's definitely the stronger finish... just wondering if you braved it solo. I haven't done the route yet, but I've figured that might very well be the crux, given soft snow or a big cornice How stable/steep was it? Quote
Tstab Posted April 10, 2012 Author Posted April 10, 2012 BenB, the upper section is the steepest snow of the route, at least when I was there. it gets to about 60 i guess. I thought it was getting close to rated R for a solo. in a few weeks the snow should be consolidated better and should be great! Quote
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