kevino Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Trip: Mt Stuart - Ice Cliff Glacier Date: 6/8/2008 Trip Report: Well I finally got around to posting one of these things..I know Sol already posted a TR but I figured I'd share some more photos and such. 1:45 am, alarm goes off and we eventually mosey out of our cars and start hiking. This is my fifth car to car trip - but the first one being able to park at the TH! What an amazing difference it not having to hike that fucking road. After wandering around the woods aimlessly we happen on this: We figured this to be the community bear spray bottle - thankfully we only had to dispense part of it. A little later we found this thing in the morning sun and decided to go climbing. Once we reached the snowline we noticed a highway of foot traffic leading to our climb. We also noticed someone decided to bring their pet with them, thankfully they left it at basecamp. After attaching some sharp objects to our feets and hands to headed upward and had some great alpine climbing. This whole face was falling apart. Thankfully we were past it when three avalanches/slides came down. Sure sounded good though. We thought we'd be more sheltered from falling stuff after getting into the coluior - this however turned out to be the exact opposite. After moving through the steady spindrift and ice fall, in which we were all hit at least five hundred times, Matt found the way out of the mess: Here are the other two teams coming down from the summit. Little did they know this was our plan to climb after them so we didn't have to do any thinking at all. After being lazy we decided to find the summit Being the old man that I am, I had to take my normal 11am nap. When Matt started down climbing to sherpa, my calfs said "fuck you, i've had enough front pointing for one day." so i took the lazy approach and just sat on my butt and slid down - I recommend everone to try it. Here you can see Matt, the team of two on the glacier, and the team of three waaaaaaaaay down at the bottom. I also took it upon myself to find a crevasse so everyone knows where not to go. What a great day. Gear Notes: more food and water next time. Approach Notes: 4 hours to base of mountain. 4 hours to top out. forever to get back to the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Nice job, Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock-ice Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 sweet pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddday Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Thanks for the inspiring TR, my buddy and I climbed the route on Sunday, then skiid the Sherpa. Terrific Day. Wasn't even on my hitlist 'till the TR's started dropping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I don't see any pics... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddday Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Hopefully this link works. IC Glacier or this one http://picasaweb.google.com/funhaugs2000/IceCliffGlacier?authkey=ub1vZWp44uI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Nice pics! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevino Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 I don't see any pics... Really? Do they work now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddday Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 2nd link should work fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I don't see any pics... Really? Do they work now? Yes, they are working now. Whatever you did, Kevin, thanks. Looks like a nice trip. Way to go get some of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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