Alpine Scramble - Gardner Mountain & North Gardner Mountain

Here is a trip report for your review: https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/trip-reports/alpine-scramble-gardner-mountain-north-gardner-mountain

Here is the general plan for the 3-day trip below. If weather doesn't cooperate, we might turn the trip into a 2-day scramble. Basically, day 1 will be the same as the 3-day trip plan. But it will be a long day 2 - i.e. scramble up North Gardner and hike out back to the Wolf Creek TH.

• Day 1 - Hike to Gardner Meadow, set up camp (10.5 miles with 3,310' in elevation gain)
• Day 2 - Get an early start, summit, and return to camp (5.6 miles with 4,206' in elevation gain). Note: If we only tag North Gardner, we are looking at 3.02 miles with 3,467' in elevation gain.
• Day 3 - Break camp and hike out (10.5 miles with 710' in elevation gain)

This isn't a good first trip for new scramble/climbing students, please only request to sign up if you have experience with long backpacks/hikes/scrambles. The approach is very long and strenuous (8,000 ft of gain in the first two days with 28 total miles of hiking for the entire trip), so your fitness and gear need to be dialed in. When requesting leader permission, please share with me your level of recent conditioning (anything over 4k of elevation gain with a weighted pack, even better if you have trips with 10+ hours days) and backcountry camping experience.  Please also include your experience traveling on moderate-angel snow slopes and exposed/loose rock scrambling terrain. This is definitely a trip you need to be training for! Also, please let me know if you have crampons, since we might need them on this trip depending on snow conditions.

Please don't reach out until registration opens. Feel free to reach out if you have questions. Requests before registration date are not guaranteed a response. If your request doesn't include the relevant info, or it is obvious that you did not read this entirely, it will be ignored. Thx

10:30AM @ Wolf Creek TH (Time subject to change). You will need a NW Forest Pass or Interagency Pass to park at this trailhead. There is no vault toilet at this location, so I would recommend planning your rest stops prior to getting to this trailhead.

Ashway P&R can be the carpool meet-up spot for those of you interested in carpooling.