Trip
Basic Glacier Climb - Snowfield Peak/Neve Glacier
Beautiful glacier climb of Snowfield Peak in the North Cascades.
- Info
- COVID-19: Learn about our most up-to-date guidance for participants and leaders on our COVID-19 Response page. All participants and leaders must agree to the COVID-19 Code of Conduct before participating in this Mountaineers activity.
Contacts
Travis Prescott
Primary Leader
- Sat, Aug 6, 2022 — Sun, Aug 7, 2022
- Foothills Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Basic Alpine
- Adults
- Basic Glacier Climb, Technical 2, Strenuous 4
- Challenging
- Mileage: 16.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 7,500 ft
- FULL (4 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Pyramid Lake TH @ time TBD.
Click [+MORE] to read all notes before requesting permission.
- The plan is to tag Snowfield and Neve Peaks. Colonial is not on the agenda.
- Preference for Foothills students, volunteers, or leaders needing a glacier climb. If that's not you, you are still welcome to send a permission request, but you may end up on the waitlist.
- If you are a student, your permission request should include a summary of your recent conditioning efforts.
- If you are going to cancel, do so before registration closes on Jul 31st.
Route/Place
Snowfield Peak/Neve Glacier
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USGS Diablo Dam
USGS Ross Dam
Green Trails North Cascades Ross Lake No. 16SX
Green Trails Diablo Dam No. 48 - See full route/place details.
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Mountain boots that can accept crampons (not hiking boots)
- Crampons
- An ice axe (not technical ice tools)
- A sleeping bag rated to +20 degrees or colder
- A sleeping pad
- A back pack (40 to 60 liters)
- Webbing and accessory cords
- 6 straight gate carabiners
- 2 locking carabiners
- Large pear-shaped carabiner
- Belay device
- Climbing harness
- Helmet
- Rescue pulley
- Fleece or puffy jacket
- Rain jacket and full-zip rain pants
- Warm gloves or mittens
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