Field trip: Winter Mountaineering & Advanced Crevasse Rescue
WCR - Two-person Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue - Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
These sessions are to develop the necessary skills to travel as a 2 person rope team and perform a solo rescue of a fallen climber
Contacts
- Sat, May 31, 2025 — Sun, Jun 1, 2025
- Foothills Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Adults
- Challenging
- Mileage: 9.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 7,000 ft
- 6 (6 capacity)
- 6 (6 capacity)
- Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 10:02 AM
- Thu, May 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This trip will focus on crevasse rescue and glacier travel. We will approach on Saturday starting at 0400 with the goal of reaching the Hogsback at 0900. We will set up camp, have lunch, rest, and travel to the Black Buttes where a nice-looking crevasse will be waiting for us so we can practice rescue in a real crevasse. We should be done before 1800 and will then head back to camp to rest. On day 2, the plan is to have an alpine start to attempt the summit of Mount Baker via the Coleman-Deming route; if we are too tired, we will do more crevasse rescue practices. Back to cars by the end of the day.
Heliotrope Ridge Trailheat at 0400.
Badges
students will earn:
Glacier Climb Rope Leader
Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
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USGS Mt Baker
Green Trails Mount Baker Wilderness Climbing No. 13SX
Green Trails Mt Baker No. 13 - See full route/place details.
Required Equipment
Standard overnight and glacier travel gear, plus 2-3 probes.