Great climb with sun, clouds, river fords, steep forest, crevasses and a super fun scramble!
A fun successful climb as a party of 3. Fixed hand lines are in sorry shape as of 7/31/2016.
Successful climb via the Finger Tip Traverse - wonderful camp at the Lake and quick trip out on Sunday.
hiked up guye/snoqualmie trail and then took snoqualmie fork and then took climber's path to valley between cave ridge and snoqualmie. walked up valley. headed up toward lion's head/chief seattle rock and gained ridge(we could have gained the ridge below(climber's riight) the lion's head/chief seattle rock). took ridge until we could traverse to base of lundin west ridge. this year there was water in the valley between cave ridge and mount snoqualmie. one of the previous years there wasn't.
Trip was re-routed because the FS prohibits camping in the Tatoosh lakes basin and there is no other water source on the route. We went to Packwood and Lost Lakes nearby instead.
Short approach to a rock route with exposed scrambling and two pitches of climbing.
Some crevasses, route pretty direct. Watch out for rock fall from Boston Peak. Good snow bridge to rock at center of the Boston Sahale Col. Recommend removing crampons if you're wearing them for scrambling on rock up to the traverse.
13 hours car to car. No snow. Crampons, ice axe, gaiters not needed.
Final gully was snow filled but there was a moat on climber's left you can scramble up. Look for non-obvious grey ramp at the top of the snow finger to climber's left which leads to the base of the climb. Scramble from the top of the ramp (class 4) to base of first pitch. Ice axe, crampons, gaiters not necessary.
A real treat on top of Tomyhoi peak - rare silky phacelia. Please take care and protect them!
Seattle branch hike to Third Burroughs on July 30 with a group of 6 hikers.
This was my first hike with The Mointaineers. It was all I expected it to be and much more. Very friendly group and excellent Leader that was very informative and knowedlable. I felt very welcome to be part of the group.
There was more snow than expected, enough to make it a snow scramble
Patches of snow still exist off-trail, used ice axe for belay but crampons were not necessary. The North Fork Teanaway Road is now open all the way to the Esmeralda Basin trailhead. Black flies and mosquitoes were out so bring repellant.
Very shaded and breezy summer hike, perfect for staying out of the direct sun.
Taking out both P3 and Defiance in a loop scramble/hike on a midweek evening.
Beautiful day with fog burning off and giving us wonderful views along this section of the PCT. Great diverse group and a knowledgeable leader.