
Trip Report
Alpine Scramble - Mount Thompson/East Ridge
Beautiful scramble cruising along the PCT and some scree sidehilling, bushwhacking and solid rock scrambling at the top
- Fri, Sep 4, 2020
- Alpine Scramble - Mount Thompson/East Ridge
- Mount Thompson/East Ridge
- Scrambling
- Successful
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- Road suitable for all vehicles
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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.
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