Mount Baker/North Ridge
Wed, Jun 6, 2018 - Thu, Jun 7, 2018
A classic climb with a bit of spice. One of Fred Beckey's favorites.
A classic climb with a bit of spice. One of Fred Beckey's favorites.
Climbs of Mount Deception and Mount Mystery in early June 2018. Steep snow on both climbs using multiple pickets for running belay. Cornice to get over on Mount Deception. Base for both climbs was Royal Lake.
It's an awesome hike/climb with stunning views and interesting ridge walk/scramble for my first time as assistant leader. So much fun watching students smile making their first ascent.
Terrific early June snow scramble. A lot of snow along the Wonderland has melted out but there is plenty of snow left to allow good kick steps.
A nice day spent with lots of wildlife viewing in beautiful Henderson Inlet
Successful early season climb of SEWS. Winter approach with lots of melting snow and a sunny summit with lots of mountain goat viewing.
The west coast faces the straight and is often hammered by wind and waves and so has some of the character of the outer coast. We had a calm day with clear air and tremendous visibility from San Juans, Vancouver Island, to Olympic peninsula and mountains. Some of the shoreline is low and other high bluff. Some inhabited and some wild.
Good snow conditions, great glissades, river crossing no problem
not much snow to walk on until basin ~5800' snow conditions were excellent, summit block dry and snow free
Interesting spring scramble, using much of the scrambling toolkit.
A fun backpack & scramble
A good mix of scramble students and scramble graduates went up to do some more peak bagging on sunday, after the Experience Field Trip on saturday. The initial plan was to do Koppen, we instead chose to do Teanaway Peak (later ended up doing Teanaway and Iron Peaks) to avoid stream crossings. Good driving conditions. Trail is mostly snow free. Rock is great as always.
Successful summit up the Jefferson Park Glacier, across the knife-edge ridge, and up the summit pinnacle.
A scramble needing good navigational skills and optimum conditions for best results
Rescheduled from the Brothers. A routine early season climb, with lots of snow.