ptownclimber Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Trip: Adams - South Face/SW gullies Date: 5/2/2015 Trip Report: We got some great turns last weekend. I'm starting to feel a benefit from altitude room training - moved pretty easily higher up the mountain. We descended from the false summit as it was pretty windy up there and skiing from the very top did not appear to offer great snow. We started descending right around noon. We found the top of the SW chutes pretty icy, so we traversed back to the SE, descended nice soft snow, then cut back over to some really beautiful snow. I can't think of many times I've had a better combination of spring snow and terrain. We followed tracks down to the round-the mountain trail, which led to some tedious traverse skinning on snow and some pine needles. We only took skis off once. Once we hit the main trail, it seemed like we were back in the car within minutes. All in all an awesome outing. Avy damage at the round the mountain trail...big trees toppled like toothpicks: Approach Notes: ski crampons would have been useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHinkkala Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Nice, curious how long it took car to car, and if you had to bootpack any dry areas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Water Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 can field this..been up the last 3 weekends (and officially 'adams'ed out now). you are on dry ground for about 1 mile up to the wilderness boundary, from cold springs. It's melting fast but there is a little more base at treeline when it opens up more so probably about the same this weekend. There is also an option to cut left/east a bit higher than going down more and hitting the RTM trail, you skin up maybe 200ft and .75mi-1mi around a bowl and over a few minor ribs and pop out about half way down the west side of the crescent glacier 'bowl'..more on the ridge line than up in the upper bowl. From there a direct ski back to the snowline and trail to car. skinning to summit can be done with ski crampons (2x). ~5hr to pikers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukuzka1 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 "I'm starting to feel a benefit from altitude room training - moved pretty easily higher up the mountain." what is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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