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Alpine Scramble - Mount Thompson/East Ridge

Beautiful scramble cruising along the PCT and some scree sidehilling, bushwhacking and solid rock scrambling at the top

Ananth Maniam (ஆனந்த் மணியம்) Ananth Maniam (ஆனந்த் மணியம்)
September 13, 2020
  • Road suitable for all vehicles

  • Trail: The trip is 90% on the PCT, till we split off into the Thomson basin. PCT is well maintained and has lots of spots to step aside for fellow hikers and keeping some distance during the pandemic.

    Trail to Notch: Once past the PCT into the Thomson basin, it was some big boulders, scree to get to the Notch on the East Ridge. 

    Notch to base of Rock scramble: Notch to base of the scramble is mostly on well established climbers trail. From there is was mostly Class 2 (aka T3/T4 scrambling till we get to the final Class 4 move)

    Class 4 move has solid hand holds and foot holds. from there  the summit is 20 feet. 

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Finally completing the Snoqualmie 20 peak list with a 9hour round trip to Mount Thomson, via the East ridge Started at 6am from TH. Summit at 11.40. back to cars at 3.10pm. We started the morning with some smell of burning wood and were worried, if we missed the mail. The visibility started fading around 10AM when the smoke filled most of the mountains The trip included some Pic 2: Views of our summit Pic 3: Berry picking and rainier sighting Pic 4: the close up view from the pass Pic 5: more smoke rolling in as we gain the summit Pic 6: the class 4 route to the summit Pic 7: Summit burger and views Pic 8: coming down some class 2-3 Pic 9: only rappel we did on the class 4 move Pic 10: swim at an alpine lake Completing Snoqualmie 20. First 12 as a scramble student, next 5 as a basic student, last 3 as a trip leader. Progress thanks to @mountaineersorg #ourpnw

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Finally completing the Snoqualmie 20 peak list with a 9hour round trip to Mount Thomson, via the East ridge Started at...

Posted by Ananth Maniam on Saturday, September 5, 2020