Great Cracks and alternate routes on zigzag
We pretty much had the lake to ourselves since the observatory is not open yet. Excellent weather to hike in but it was a bit breezy at the end of the lake where we had our lunch break. There is a challenging waterfall to cross at the two mile mark. We saw an eagle, geese and a doe.
We pretty much had the lake to ourselves since the observatory is not open yet. Excellent weather to hike in but it was a bit breezy at the end of the lake where we had our lunch break. There is a challenging waterfall to cross at the two mile mark. We saw an eagle, geese and a doe.
Beautiful evening to enjoy dinner at the falls.
The goal of this trip is to get to a nice location with a relatively dry weather for basic climbing students to practice all glacial travel skills. We chose the spot at about 5420', right below the north face of Diamond Head. This was a great location for its ample space for camping, a range of slopes and snow conditions for roped travel and crevasse rescue, and a gorgeous view day and night as a treat. Both students and instructors enjoyed the trip.
Successful, more or less. Two people decided to head back to the cars, once we reached the junction with the Lost Lake trail. The rest of us decided turn around after another hour. It was growing late, we had the drive back to Seattle ahead of us, and lots of mosquitoes pestered us.
Successful summit to Cowboy mountain. Turned around on our attempt to Big chief due to snow and route conditions. Experienced group, great group work. Excellent glissade and quick and safe trip
The weather is wet. But club youth did great and summit successfully.
A beautiful, sunny midweek trip for SeattleScrambleStudents
A quick change in the weather made for an enjoyable weekend ascent.
Great group! Good social dynamic on an otherwise challenging rainy day.
We parked at Narada Falls and walked in on the bare road to Reflection Lakes and started out on snowshoes. The cooling in the weather made for great snow conditions, we gained the ridge just east of the Castle. From there we dropped down on the south side of the ridge, came up at the basin at the base of Foss and proceeded to the summit. We got lucky with the weather, we had some snow, low clouds and filtered sunshine, one of the driest trips I've had since the fall. All students did great.
A good long day paddle with added interest of a portage and going around something.
A very pleasant scramble, although visibility was poor and glissading conditions weren't great. Fortunately, the freezing level was low, so all the precipitation was snow.
Only 1 signup so canceled as an offical trip. The 2 us went as a private trip.
We took full advantage of the last day of sun and short-sleeves weather to tackle Cowboy Mountain as a SeattleStudentScramble.
Fun successful trip despite variable weather.
April snowshoe on 5 meters (15 feet) of snow in the Paradise area. The volunteers who maintain the trail markers had removed the markers just for us. The challenge was appreciated by us but not by those who had little experience finding the way. We got up to Inspiration saddle and returned in excellent conditions.