Recommended Alpine Rock Solos

[bdwbdn]

Can anyone recommend any alpine rock routes (5.5 and under) in the North Cascades that can be done car to car in a day? I'll be around Seattle and Vancouver for a couple of weeks and was looking to solo a few easy routes.

 

 

[ivan]

vesper was fun and all but the first couple feet of p1 were easy, easy 5th - c2c is easy, but i took beer n' smokes n' a bag and had a blast bivying on the summit, you can work your way back down and run laps on the upper slab which is wicked fun...

[genepires]

the tooth s face at snoq pass (short day)

 

s ridge/face ingals peak (long day)

 

beckey route on liberty bell (long drive with short day)

 

will prolly want a thin 50m rope to rap with for first and last route.

[lunger]

west ridge Stuart, provided you can boogie

west ridge Forbidden, same as above

west ridge Thomson at Snoq Pass (reportedly 5.7, seemd easier)

none require ropes for descent provided you can downclimb low 5th on forbidden--however snow might complicate matters on that one already?

 

 

 

[kukuzka1]

not in the north cascades but start at alpental parking lot and do rosevelt-kaleetnan traverse, going down the standard se descent of kaleetan and hiking out to the old pass road to finish jogging back to alpental parking lot. 8+ hours if you move good

[ivan]

guye peak

[curtveld]

South Arete, SEWS. Opinions vary on how hard the crux move is (low 5th - 5.8) but it's one move about 10' off the groud and the rest is easy.

 

West Ridge North Twin. Class 3, but long, fun and alpine. Mtn bike in, steep snow on descent. South Twin is similar but bigger and not quite as airy.

 

LOTS of entertaining and scenic class 3 & 4 options as well, including Sahalie.

[bdwbdn]

Seems like there are plenty of good options. Thanks so much everyone!