Trip
Basic Glacier Climb - Snowfield Peak/Neve Glacier
Mentored climb for Isley Gao. Please do not contact until activity opens for registration in June 2025
Contacts
Isley Gao
Primary Leader
Qualified Youth Leader
- Sat, Jul 12, 2025 — Sun, Jul 13, 2025
- Seattle Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Basic Alpine
- Adults
- Basic Glacier Climb, Technical 2, Strenuous 4
- Challenging
- Mileage: 16.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 7,500 ft
- 3 (3 capacity)
- 3 (3 capacity)
- Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
- Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
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Please do not contact until activity opens for registration.
- 2 day/1 night trip to Snowfield Peak. Colonial Peak is not on the agenda.
- Open to basic graduates or equivalent of all branches when registration opens.
- When requesting permission, please include conditioning over the previous 2-3 months as well as previous climbs.
- I will be going to the permit office the day before our climb to secure permits for our group. Participants will need to reimburse the leader for their portion of the permits.
Pyramid Lake TH @ time TBD.
Route/Place
Snowfield Peak/Neve Glacier
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USGS Diablo Dam
USGS Ross Dam
Green Trails North Cascades Ross Lake No. 16SX
Green Trails Diablo Dam No. 48 - See full route/place details.
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Mountain boots that can accept crampons (not hiking boots)
- Crampons
- An ice axe (not technical ice tools)
- A sleeping bag rated to +20 degrees or colder
- A sleeping pad
- A back pack (40 to 60 liters)
- Webbing and accessory cords
- 6 straight gate carabiners
- 2 locking carabiners
- Large pear-shaped carabiner
- Belay device
- Climbing harness
- Helmet
- Rescue pulley
- Fleece or puffy jacket
- Rain jacket and full-zip rain pants
- Warm gloves or mittens
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