Trip Report
Alpine Scramble - Mount Baring/Northwest Ridge
A wet and muddy day.
- Sat, May 28, 2016
- Alpine Scramble - Mount Baring/Northwest Ridge
- Mount Baring/Northwest Ridge
- Scrambling
- Turned Around
- Road rough but passable
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Bootpath to ridge was very wet and muddy. 4 inches of new snow overnight in the gully.
Bootpath is found .25 miles on the right side of a creek bed. Mostly easy to follow. There was a lower fixed rope that is unnecessary, and one higher up that is a bit more useful. Bootpath continues along the ridge. Snow began in gully and was good for kicking steps. 4 inches of new snow was causing some small surface sliding. At the col, wintery conditions and steep "snow wall" sapped our interest in continuing, so we turned around here.