We successfully summited Cuthroat but took much longer than expected. Lots of loose and crumbling rock on the ridge and on the climb. We finished the final rappel with the light fading which forced us to navigate the steep talus and scree field in the dark which took a significant amount of time.
Foggy, only local views, flowers above about 5,400', wet tread, no other scramblers and few hikers.
Foggy, only local views, flowers above about 5,400', wet tread, no other scramblers and few hikers.
Overall, a successful trip with good conditions.
Rob Busack and Sherrie Trecker completed the Ptarmigan Traverse over July 28-August 2, 2016.
Well worth a visit. Basin Lake was beautiful, and we had it all to ourselves.
Long approach, but worth the effort!
Perfect weather for this interesting volcano climb in the Three Sisters Wilderness in central Oregon.
An interesting and unusual loop trip through the Enchantments
Very Popular and Busy but Beautiful Scenery and Well Worth the Effort.
A great hike to Kendall Katwalk/Ridge & Gravel Lake. There had been several weeks of WTA trip reports siting downed trees and snow but we were fortunate that the snow had melted and the trees had been removed.
8/6/2016: Good weather and a small but capable group (reduced in size due to illness and conflicting obligations) consisting of the leader, a Basic student, and a Scramble student enjoyed the generally solid rock in the main stream canyon, the cool overhang of the rock shelter, and the bounteous berries of the upper meadow. The broken cloud cover tempered the heat of the afternoon, as did refills of water in the pools of the side canyon's still-trickling stream. We saw a magnificent mountain goat (or rather, he took ten minutes out of his busy day to pose for us on a rock pinnacle), collected handfuls of mountain goat wool, and made it out in good time for refreshing drinks in Gold Bar!
My trip to Mt Triumph got rained out so Alex and Jay invited me to find a partner and join them for a single day climb of Serpentine Arete. Rob joined us to make two teams of two.
Two day climb 6-7AUG successful good weather snow almost gone.
Flowers are now in prime time. We had a poor weather day but still enjoyed some of the show of color in the first benches in Spray park.