Basic Alpine Climb - The Tooth/South Face

5 AM Eastgate P&R

Action Items

• Brian and Louie, please login to the mountaineers.org website and update your waiver.  The website is preventing me from registering you.

• All, send me your cell numbers, emergency contacts, and any medical or other concerns that may affect the party. 

Logistics               Meet at 05:00 AM            Sunday June 7, 2015

Eastgate P&R – EAST side of the parking structure directly below the overpass to Bellevue College.

We will carpool from there and park in the main Alpental parking lot. USFS pass is required

Plan to be packs on and hiking before 6 AM

Plan for a dinner stop in North Bend on the way home

Objective

• The Tooth – South Face

• Goal - Be safe, have fun, exercise the skills you’ve been armed in the BCC, practice smart decision making, tag the summit

• References

  • http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/get.php?wfo=sew&pil=AFD&sid=SEW

  • https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/routes-places/the-tooth-s-face

  • http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1074755

  • http://www.willhiteweb.com/snoqualmie_pass/the_tooth/alpental_winter_207.htm

• Assignment - James

  • Research the route and approach 

  • Brief the team on the approach to Pineapple Pass – have a map of the approach and rough time plan prepared

Current Conditions

• Snow will be mostly gone

• Clean trail to Snow Lake turnoff

• Talus fields and rock hopping

• Water available on the approach