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Canceled: Mt. Adams

  • Start date: 07/29/2011

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 07/31/2011

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This will be a climb of the Mazama Glacier route on Mt Adams. We'll leave Fri afternoon and camp near the trailhead. On Sat we'll hike into base camp, which overlooks the Klickatat glacier. There are mountain goats around base camp and wildflowers on the hike in. The climb has crevasses so experience with roped travel is necessary.

  • Event Leader: Reiter Maryanne

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Climbs

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 422

  • Season: 2011

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Ice ax, crampons, harness, helmet, sturdy boots.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 11.4

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 6700

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Climbs

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We left Eugene early Sat (July 30th) morning, arrived at Cold Spring TH and started hiking up to base camp early afternoon. The weather was sunny and pleasant. Due to the lateness of snowmelt, the nice weather and whatever other reasons for mass migration there were, 400 other climbers joined us on the mountain that day. After we adjusted our perception of "wilderness experience" we had a fine time. We camped just below the "lunch counter". The evening sun set like a Fireball, casting blue purple mountain shadows. During the night the wind picked up and was blowing fiercely for most of night and morning. I made the call to delay our departure in hopes that it would die down; it did not. We got ready an hour later and departed camp around 7 AM. We joined the conga line of climbers and summited in the wind and white out. There was no lounging on the summit due cold and there was no visibility so after pictures we took off like Bandits and headed down. We had the most amazing glissade down a trough worthy of an Olympic luge course. We got back to camp mid-afternoon and packed up. While we were packing up a man carrying a doberman came hiking down the rocks. He set the dog on the snow, stepped into his snowboard, scooped up the dog and whooshed down the mountain. We made it back safely to Eugene late Sunday evening.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 12
  • Number of spots available: 6
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Reiter, Maryanne 541-521-8472 N —
2 Signed-Up Deeter, Wayne 541-954-0924 N —
3 Signed-Up Robertson, Shellie 541-525-4734 N —
4 Signed-Up Zeni, Sue 541-729-0532 N —
5 Signed-Up Hendrickson, Kirk 541-852-6763 N —
6 Signed-Up Monico, Laurie 541-729-5692 N —