Winter Scramble - Mildred Point

Snow level of ~3500’ afforded dry/cold conditions as we approached the Rampart Ridge crest. Fresh snow depth increased considerably starting at ~4600’ to the summit which required frequent trail breaker swapping. Our route used a series of carefully chosen ridge crests to achieve negligible avalanche hazard in spite of high avalanche hazards elsewhere. The plateau at ~5500’ had some very deep wind blown snow pits where the summer stream normally runs that we easily avoided by going a bit further north to gain the ridge on the west side of this plateau. In spite of strong wind gusts at the ~5700’ crux (intimidating from below), the upper plateau at ~5800’ had very little. We opted to use the ridgelet east of this upper plateau to finally reach the summit.