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Mt Jefferson

  • Start date: 06/21/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/23/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Planning for the Whitewater Glacier route with the West Rib as a back up if better for the team or conditions warrant. Need experience on overnight Cascade mountain climbs and crevasse rescue training.
Hiking in on the 21st, planning for summit on 22nd, and hikeout and/or buffer day on the 23rd. Carpool details from Eugene TBD. We'll be getting together the weeks leading up to the climb to review crevasse rescue training. Danni is Assistant Leader.

  • Event Leader: Willhite Dalen

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Climbs

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 213

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Helmet, harness, crampons, ice axe, crevasse rescue gear, pack and food for 3 days. Expect snowshoes for at least the approach. We'll figure out stoves, shovel, and other group camping gear as we get closer.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 12

  • Member Fees: 3

  • Elevation Gain: 7000

  • Non-Member Fees: 15

  • Committee: Climbs

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Due to the warm weather, we opted for the West Rib via the Woodpecker Ridge TH and Milk Creek approach, entering June 21. Jen Marlow assisted with the lead. Despite the late season, we had plenty of snow to travel up the Milk Creek drainage due to apparently a very large avalanche earlier in the year that left a deep snow pack all the way to the PCT. We bivvied around 6200ft (one of the few flat spots in the area) and started climbing about 4:30am. We were able to stay on snow starting around 6400ft up to the base of the summit pinnacle except for a single rock band. Snow was great for crampons. We roped up across steep snow/ice to get to the east side of the north ridge and continued fixed lines up to the summit (6/22). Great day and visibility. The decent was long as the snow didn't soften as we thought it would, so forced a lot of down climbing instead of plunge stepping. We were off the summit by 1pm and in camp about 4:30pm, then hiked back to the cars. It was a strong group and a successful climb despite concerns with goats in the camp, a lost cell phone, forgotten glacier glasses, forgotten rappel device, and a rappel on a munter. I think we were lucky with the snowy approach and I would recommend this route in the future, although no so sure about the Milk Creek approach without the lucky avalanche.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 5
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Willhite, Dalen 406-570-4514 N 3
2 Signed-Up Harris, Danneille 541-521-5807 N 3
3 Signed-Up Marlow, Jennifer 925-899-6399 N 3
4 Signed-Up Warren, Charles 716-560-7758 N 15
5 Signed-Up Timms, Scott 713-492-1547 N 3
6 Signed-Up McGlinsky, Juli 541-232-0421 N 3
7 Signed-Up Davis, Theo 541-740-2527 N 15
8 Signed-Up Zimmerman, Jamie 503-956-9655 N 15
9 Signed-Up Mucker, Patrick 541-517-2497 N 15
10 Waitlist Leech, Brenna 480-646-7354 N 15
11 Waitlist Rhodes, Mikel 541-206-7389 N 15