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Basic Glacier Climb - Bacon & Canadian Bacon Peaks

3 day climb (4/24-4/26) of Bacon and Canadian Bacon from eastside via Bacon Creek Road.

  • Road recommended for high clearance only
  • We were able to drive the FJ all way to 943 ft (the sitchback before the last, after which you leave the road and start BW at 1340 ft). There is no trail. Going up we did a pretty good job and mostly followed sparsed pink / orange very old flags while avoiding cliffs and very thick bushwacking. Nothing harder than BW2+?

    Snow started around 4100 ft as we popped on the NW ridge and it became continous atarting aroung 4300 ft (we used snowshoes).

    Dropping from 4800 ft Peak (Spark Plug) in the basin took some work to find a reasonable slope to downclimb 400 ft or so. We had to face in downclimb hard snow and wished we had a whippet in addition to our axes (like Chris had).

    The basin and the couloir were covered by significant old avy debris but overall the snowpack was pretty stable while we were in the area. Still a pretty good amount of overhead hazards we had to be mindful about and kept us alert while climbing the couloir.

     

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