Great trip. Nobody in sight, no snow, few bugs, wild flowers out.
Fantastic conditions, no snow, wild flowers out.
We had a great climb of the Kautz, but the technical climbing took much longer than expected. Would consider a carry-over next time.
The area is beautiful and well worth the trip, and the climb is interesting and fun. The route description is a bit out of date; updates below.
Gained W ridge via SW gulley. Finished via the (squeeze) chimney described in SuperTopo.
Perfect conditions, not too many climbers on route.
Beautiful, clear day. Still good snow conditions, but deteriorating quickly with growing snow cups.
Second highest peak in Washington, beautiful approach, and not too technical route on Mazama Glacier. Just be ready for the hoard of hikers coming up from the South side.
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.