A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

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A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by Guy » April 14th, 2014, 5:17 pm

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Opening pic!

We put down our $22.00 a head for a climb up Mt. St. Helens yesterday. Paid permits begin on April 1st but there is no limit on the numbers issued until Mothers day so at the moment you can buy them online the day before and not have to worry about the weather being bad! As a day hike this requires a bit of an early start! We left home at 4:45am, arrived in Cougar to pick our permits from the Lone fir Resort by 6:20am and then on to the Marble Mountain Snow Park where there was no snow but a boat load of people!!

By 7:00am we were setting out on the trail. No snow anywhere for the first half mile then patchy to the 1 mile mark where it's finally 100% coverage. We had snow shoes strapped to our packs but the snow was frozen hard & so walking was easier without them.

Heading for the ridge climb...

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And up we go!

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It was a busy day on the mountain! I say 75% of folks were hauling skis or snow boards up.

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At 5600' we made use of the Snow Shoe drop off point ;) Leaving them here to pick up again on the way back down.

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I had to work hard to catch up with this 7 year old girl! She told me that it was her second climb to the summit! I was suitably impressed!

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We made pretty good time Shelly got to the top in 4 hours Chiyoko & I in 4.5. It was a bit cold and windy top so we had to bundle up.

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A celebratory summit drink!

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Some Dome Steam!

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Summit Pano

Rather than head down exactly the same way we climbed up we headed down Monitor ridge for the first 2000' then cut back across to the Worm Flats route.

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Looking East to Mt. Adams

Of Course no trip up & back down St. Helens in such great weather would be complete without a glissade run or two :)

http://youtu.be/bwfnAxEcg6E

The trip clocked in at 10.5 miles with about 5500' of EG.
A few more photos of the day here.

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by BrianEdwards » April 14th, 2014, 5:36 pm

Congrats on a great summit, Guy! The weather man even cooperated
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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by Born2BBrad » April 14th, 2014, 6:56 pm

Impressive trip! Unbelievable how many other people were there.
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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by CraigG » April 14th, 2014, 7:38 pm

Well done! Get those summits early in the year!

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by CraigG » April 14th, 2014, 7:40 pm

Looks like you used microspikes? Nice!

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by acorn woodpecker » April 14th, 2014, 8:03 pm

Guy wrote:
It was a bit cold and windy top so we had to bundle up.

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Even still, he continues to wear the shorts! :lol:

Amazing how little snow there is and how many people there were. Despite that, what a great day to be out! Lovely photos.

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by Sean Thomas » April 14th, 2014, 8:08 pm

Great TR and trip, Guy. That summit pano is awesome! Glad to see you reppin the shorts too :D

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by MarsIsCobra » April 14th, 2014, 8:50 pm

when you gonna let me tag along? looks awesome

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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by Peder » April 14th, 2014, 10:19 pm

Guy - So how are shorts for glissading? I would imagine that it rather cools the underwear... :shock:
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Re: A climb up Mt. St. Helens - 2014/04/13

Post by Roy » April 15th, 2014, 11:38 am

Nice tr Guy did have to get a permit?

What a you day you had.

Not trying to tell you what to do but the glissade is far longer on the west side straight to the butte camp trail intersection. Then you take the Lowit back east.

thats how skiers do it for better snow

Just an Idea if you go back in the spring with gps should be easy the glissade is insane over there.

part of day will be alone just a thought


I am jealous :mrgreen:
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