Basic Glacier Climb - Mount Anderson/Eel Glacier

TBD

Please do not contact or request permission until registration opens. Rope leaders can request permission starting on Feb 1st.

This isn't a good first trip for basic climbing students, please only request to sign up if you have experience with long backpacks/scrambles (preferably with a bicycle). While the glacier travel portion is short, the approach is very long and strenuous (10,000 ft of gain in the first two days with 38 total miles of hiking), so your fitness and gear need to be dialed in. When requesting leader permission, please share with me your level of recent conditioning and backcountry camping experience.  Please also include your experience traveling on steep snow and exposed rock scrambling terrain. This is definitely a trip you need to be training for! Lastly, the climb involves a bike approach along the Dosewallips River road, so please acknowledge you have read this section on your leader permission request.

Here are trip reports for your reference: Basic Glacier Climb - Mount Anderson/Eel Glacier — The Mountaineers;         Mount Anderson via Eel Glacier — The Wild Outsiders

General Plan 

• Day 1 - Hike to Honeymoon Meadows, set up camp
• Day 2 - Get an early start, summit, and return to camp
• Day 3 - Break camp and hike out

There will be a $25 fee for two nights of backcountry camping in Olympic NP. The leader will secure the group camping permit at Honeymoon Meadow, and everyone is expected to pitch in to share the cost.