SkiSickness

Here's a Sky Kilo (inspired) brief report. At the end is a link to my complete report.

Spent 3 days heading up Glacier Peak about a week ago. Conditions were excellent. Found continuous snow on the the White River Road ~ 3 miles before the end. There were patches here and there on the way to Lightning Creek.

We ended up camping on a 7100-ft pass after skinning directly to it. We pitched our tent on the Honeycomb Glacier.

The next day we ascended up to the summit via the Cool Glacier Route. From the summit we dropped the Chocolate Glacier HW and found some nice 45-50 degree powder until about halfway down when it turned to ice.



On the glacier we descended a few thousand feet, eventually making a slight traverse to the lower Cool Glacier. From there we dropped down to 4800-ft for a nearly continuous descent of ~6000-ft. Awesome. We climbed back up the Suiattle Glacier to camp.

For pictures and a more detailed report go here: http://cascadecrusades.org/SkiMountaine ... lacier.htm

Cool. I really wanted to ski that 8 or 9 years ago.

Yeah, it was a pretty good line. I especially loved going down to the Suiattle River. All this snow is pretty rad.

Great images and line, Jason! Looks like a rugged trip. Sorry to hear about the Exploder.

Sweet Jason. what a beautiful line in a beautiful place.

I'm glad you got to appreciate that "trail". I've always been curious of whether or not I made it out to be worse than it was. Was the slide alder at least covered?

That upper headwall looks amazing. How steep do you think it was for how long?

I'm going to back in WA on weds and looking to get lost. I want to show some friends from cham the true wilderness experience and I think glacier peak fits the bill.

Jason,

Thanks for the TR and amazing photos. Your adventures into the back and beyond are always a treat to read.

Thanks for this Jason, such a beautiful looking line. You've been CHARGING this spring!

Thanks all!

Diamond Dachshund, I would take them to the cascade pass area or some such for several days. That'd be a blast.

I'm stoked my brother dragged me out to this remote but cool peak to ski it last year.Looks like you guys skied a cool line.