Jump to content

[TR] Mt Adams - South Side 7/24/2012


Recommended Posts

Trip: Mt Adams - South Side

 

Date: 7/24/2012

 

Trip Report:

First time with this so bear with me here. The wife and I wanted to cut our teeth on something relatively easy and non-technical, so after reading up on Adams we decided it was the best option. We did the standard South Side route, which we had tried last year. The problem we had was that we tried the winter route like last year when we should have done the summer route. The summer route is 98% snow and is a very direct route, the winter route was mostly talus fields and follows Suksdorf ridge. We could have reached Lunch Counter twice as fast had we followed the summer route and probably not rolled our ankles umpteen million times! Pics:

 

DSCF3931.jpg

Trail from Cold Springs just before the winter/summer route split.

DSCF3954-1.jpg

This is coming from the winter route = No fun.

DSCF3942.jpg

The snow to the right is the summer route = easy and direct

DSCF3946.jpg

Hood and Jefferson

DSCF3947.jpg

St. Helens

DSCF3955.jpg

 

DSCF3964.jpg

 

DSCF3974.jpg

 

DSCF3948.jpg

Piker's peak from Lunch Counter.

DSCF3986.jpg

Lunch Counter from Piker's Peak.

DSCF3988.jpg

True summit from Piker's peak.

DSCF3985.jpg

 

DSCF3991.jpg

 

DSCF3994.jpg

 

DSCF4004.jpg

Mt. Rainier from the summit.

DSCF4016.jpg

The glisade from Piker's peak down to lunch counter was pretty wild, the tunnel had to be 4 feet deep in some spots. It took us less than 45 minutes to get from the summit back to our camp at Lunch Counter.

DSCF4015.jpg

 

DSCF4020.jpg

This dude was cruising around our camp for an hour or so.

DSCF4021.jpg

Snowfield at the bottom of Lunch Counter heading back to Cold Springs.

DSCF4022.jpg

Cool pic of St. Helens.

DSCF4024.jpg

 

DSCF4025.jpg

Cornice on the summer route.

DSCF4027.jpg

Last shot before heading back to the car.

 

Awesome trip for us! Glad we did it during the week, because the Ranger at Trout Lake told us they had 430 something people on the mountain over the weekend. Looking forward to Rainier in two weeks!

 

Gear Notes:

Boots, crampons and axe if you start early otherwise stay on the rock band and you almost won't even touch snow the whole way up from Lunch Counter.

 

Approach Notes:

Take the 183 trail and follow the boot pack to Lunch Counter, follow boot pack from lunch counter to summit

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 5
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Good report, nice pics!

 

I skied the SW chutes last Saturday, it was in great shape, no sun-cups. The south spur would ski well too, if that's your bag. We skied down right about noon which was good corn timing, the south spur would warm up faster. Approach on snow was super easy, good boot pack, I did it all in approach shoes with ski poles, no crampons, ymmv.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.




×
×
  • Create New...