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Backcountry Ski/Snowboard - Black Peak/South Ridge

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Backcountry Ski/Snowboard - Black Peak/South Ridge

A choose your own adventure day in the North Cascades, based roughly on the Black Peak/Last Chance Pass tour described in Volken 19.

Contacts

Paul Brown
Paul Brown
Primary Leader
  • Basic Alpine Climb, M2 Advanced Ski
  • Challenging
  • Elevation Gain: 7,000 ft
  • High Point Elevation: 8,970 ft
  • Pace: 1200ft/hr

5:30AM Rainy Pass TH, ready to skin.

We will attempt the long loop described in Volken #19, which would make for a 7000' day, but we may make a call on the mountain to alter our objective to better accommodate the conditions we encounter.  This will be a long day in complex terrain.

Route/Place

Black Peak/South Ridge

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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  • The Ten Essentials
  • Boots, skis/snowboard, poles.
  • Climbing skins (or other method to travel uphill on snow), ski crampons, boot crampons, light mountaineering axe.
  • Avalanche shovel (metal blade), beacon (modern 3-antenna), probe.
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