[TR] Mt. Adams - South Route 7/18/2015

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Trip: Mt. Adams - South Route

 

Date: 7/18/2015

 

Trip Report:

A group of 10 hikers, we left Seattle area around 6 PM on a Friday 7/17/15 as you can imagine traffic was pretty bad but we expected that so no surprises there. After an uneventful 6 hour drive we reached the Mt. Adams Ranger station in Trout Lake to get our 1 day permits for $15 per person. We then drove to the Cold Springs Camp Ground, be warn of the last 4 miles to the camp ground as there's several pot holes, my sedan got up there no problems but you do have to go slow. There was at least 40 cars at the parking lot. We set up camp a few hundred feet into and off the Cold Springs trail head sign. We were asleep around 12:30 AM 7/18/15. We woke up at 4 AM and by 5 AM after BF we were hiking on South Climb 183 trail. Trail is snow free until you reach around 9000ft or so, but the entire Mt. Adams is pretty bare of snow, it looks sad. Our fastest hikers reached Lunch Counter(~9200-9600 ft)around 7:50 AM. Then we pushed to the summit, our fastest hikers got to the top of Adams at 10 AM. The climb/hike to Adams via the south route is very straight forward and you'll have plenty of company along the way. The glassading chute is still there and it helps a lot to bring a heavy duty trash bag. We were up there until 12:45 PM as we waited for our last hiker to reached the top. All of us were back at the cars by 4 PM. We reached Seattle area around 9:30 PM.

 

If you're interested in a gpx file, contact Adventure Explorers, WA

 

Summit Pano

 

Adventure Explorers was here

 

Mt. Adams, bare of snow

 

Lunch Counter camp sites

 

Over Piker's Peak, the last 600 ft of gain or so

 

Gear Notes:

Hiking essentials, heavy duty trash bag. Microspikes/Crampons.

 

Approach Notes:

Road to trail head is free of snow.

Edited July 24, 2015 by montynet