
Trip
Alpine Scramble - Foss Peak
Snow scramble for Olympia Alpine Scrambling students who are in need of snow scramble for course requirements. Open to others starting 12:01am on Sunday May 5th. This is a Mentored Lead for Woody Knouse.
- Sun, May 12, 2024
- Olympia Alpine Scrambling Committee
- Scrambling
- Adults
- Moderate/Strenuous
- Moderate
- Mileage: 5.74 mi
- Elevation Gain: 1,684 ft
- Pace: Moderate (about 1,000 ft/hr)
- FULL (7 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This is a snow scramble for Olympia Alpine Scramble students who need a snow scramble to fulfill course requirements. Others will be allowed to register after 12:01am on 5/5/24. If you fall in the "others" category and you register before that time, you will be dropped!
This is a Mentored Scramble Lead for Woody Knouse. All questions should go directly to Woody at wknouse@comcast.net
This scramble will start at Narada Falls. We will head up the "Narada Wall" and then walk along the Stevens Canyon Rd to Reflection Lakes. We will head up to east side of the Castle and then over to Foss Peak.
Olympia Students -- You may sign up for this scramble after the successful completion of the first snow FT but you will not be allowed to go on the trip unless you have successfully completed both Snow 1 and Snow 2 field trips. You will also not be permitted to go if you have not successfully completed your conditioner.
This trip will go at a moderate pace (about 1,000 ft/hr). This means that we will move fast enough to keep the heart pumping, but not so fast that we cannot talk to each other. We'll take breaks at the 15 minute mark, 1 hour mark, and then hourly after that.
7:30am Narada Falls parking lot
Unicorn, Foss, Boundary & Stevens Peaks
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Green Trails Mt Rainier East No. 270 - See full route/place details.
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Helmet
- Mountaineering Boots
- Ice Axe
- Traction (microspikes)
- Snowshoes