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Canceled: South Sister – Prouty Glacier

  • Start date: 06/08/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/09/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

The Prouty Glacier on South Sister is a great introduction to traveling on a glacier as part of a rope team.  This alternate route up South Sister provides a much different perspective than the standard route.  We'll hike in on Saturday to Green Lakes and spend a short night.  We'll get an 'alpine start' Sunday morning so that we can be on the summit of South Sister before the glacier warms up.  We'll then make our way back down to Green Lakes via a climbers trail to pack up camp, hike back out to the trailhead, and drive home all in the same day.

  • Event Leader: Huseman Marge

  • Assistant Leader: Barba Grant

  • Event category: Climbs

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 220

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Harness, Helmet, Ice Ax, Crampons, 3 carabiners, 2 prussic loops, overnight gear including tent, stove, and water filter plans, minimum 3L of water capacity, food for 36 hours (2 lunches, 1 breakfast, 1 dinner, lots of snacks), leader treats, and sense of adventure.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 12

  • Member Fees: 3

  • Elevation Gain: 4800

  • Non-Member Fees: 15

  • Committee: Climbs

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Dubbed by this Obsidian crew to be the 'spicy' side of South Sister, the Prouty Glacier allowed us to climb a side of the mountain enjoyed by very few South Sister climbers. Still a significant snowpack at our camp at Green Lake, we were surprised that the top of the Prouty Glacier was already mixed ice/rock. We roped up for the Glacier, and placed all of our pickets to protect the steep couloir just to climbers left of the Prouty. After spending all morning without another person in sight, when we gained the summit of South Sister we joined the party of skiers who had ascended the standard route. We all looked overdressed in our harnesses, pickets, crampons, and ice axes. It was satisfying to hear the other climbers comment on our footsteps that could be seen from the summit and wondering who had possibly come up those. All 8 people on the climb made the summit and we enjoyed a long glissade back down to Green Lakes, then hiked out the same day. The team did a great job working as part of a rope team for hours and rallying through a 12+ hour summit day.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 9
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Huseman, Marge 541-743-3658 N 15
2 Signed-Up Barba, Grant 858-361-0856 N 15
3 Signed-Up Hansen, Marci 360-852-2041 N 15
4 Signed-Up Timms, Scott 713-492-1547 N 3
5 Signed-Up Ellington, Jon 541-653-6976 N 15
6 Signed-Up Humphreys, Brian 541-729-1489 N 15
7 Signed-Up Chase, Scott 541-510-8648 N 15
8 Signed-Up Khalsa, GuruParkash 505-920-2592 N 15
9 Signed-Up Rhodes, Mikel 541-206-7389 N 15
10 Signed-Up Leech, Brenna 480-646-7354 N 15
11 Signed-Up Shennum, Krista 805-428-8443 N 15
12 Waitlist Paskalev, Ivan 458-210-6633 N 15
13 Waitlist Darden, Tami 541-232-7584 N 15
14 Waitlist Zimmerman, Jamie 503-956-9655 N 15