Trip
Winter Scramble - Mount Ellinor
This is primarily a scramble for KITSAP scramble students who took part in the March 28 snow class at Paradise to fulfill a graduation requirement, and for volunteer instructors who help with the March 28 class. Others, please do not request permission until March 20.
Contacts
- Sun, Mar 29, 2026
- Kitsap Alpine Scrambling Committee
- Scrambling
- All Who Qualify, Adults
- Strenuous
- Challenging
- Mileage: 12.5 mi
- Elevation Gain: 5,000 ft
- High Point Elevation: 5,945 ft
- Pace: 1000ft/hr
- 2 (6 capacity)
- FULL (3 capacity)
- Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM
- Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
- iCal Google
This is a chance for Kitsap scramblers who just passed the snow 1 field trip to try their skills.
As of last trip report (March 26), conditions and terrain were mixed rock and snow, with scrambling on the sides of the winter chute to avoid collapsing snow into running water. The top half of the chute may be icy (crampons and ice axe necessary) and we will not be able to glissade down.
There also may be precipitation and we may get turned around by wet rock or ice.
Either way, it will be fun and a good conditioner.
This is a Plan B activity for cancelled Camp Muir scramble.
Two options:
Big Creek Campground 7:30 a.m.
or
Ellinor Lower TH 9:30 a.m. (one of the leaders will come out, meet you at the Lower TH and bring you up to the jct.) We may ask for a ride down afterward to save our knees the 3mi/2000ft descent.
Mount Ellinor
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Green Trails Olympic Mountains East No. 168S
Green Trails Mt Steel No. 167
Green Trails The Brothers No. 168
Custom Correct Mount Skokomish - Lake Cushman - See full route/place details.
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Helmet
- Crampons
- Ice Axe
- Mountaineering Boots (approach shoes are optional)
- Trekking poles
Check with leader for any additional group gear or required equipment specific to trip location