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| Jason kern | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: April 17 -24 2004 | |
| Climbed with Alpine Ascents on the Denali Prep course with the itinerary we had to follow if gave us one day for a summit attempt and we just had to have a storm on that day with very high winds and a whiteout so we didn’t summit | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2004 11:23 pm | ||
| dkantola | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: September 5-6, 2004  | |
| See Brian Jenkins's entry below. The route was very broken up, but covered with a few inches to a couple feet of new snow. We had to posthole across wind-deposited snow on the summit snow dome. There were some questionable snow bridges and newly covered crevasses. Incredible views -- equal to the best I've seen. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2004 8:23 pm | ||
| mt_daydream | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: September 5, 2004 | |
| This climb was the best I have done till date! Thanks to Troy (tnorm) and his friend Sergei for letting us (me and my friend Lu) rope up with them. The route was an amazing zig-zag through a whole maze of crevasses, many of them HUGE. I punched through one of them till my waist, but it wasn't too deep. Sergei and Troy decided to go ahead unroped for the last section (and left us behind) as they thought we were not moving fast enough. It was very windy from 6:00 am till around 8:30 am. We got past the Roman wall when they were returning form the summit. I decided to turn back with them, even though the summit was just 400 ft away. Luckily, the weather stayed stable and we did not have any problems while returning. We had to avoid many of the snow bridges that we had used on our way up as the snow had become mellow by the time we returned. Overall, it was an amazing route with awesome views. Despite not reaching the summit, I consider this climb as a success for me. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2004 4:40 am | ||
| Brian Jenkins | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: September 6, 2004 | |
| Climbed with David Kantola and Vincenzo Micelli. Bivy sacked it at High Camp on Railroad Grade and started up about 3:20 am summitting a little over 6 hours later. Lots of cool crevasses to weave in and out of. Pretty cold and windy up top, autumn is coming.................. Thanks to David for a great lead and for inviting me along. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2004 2:21 am | ||
| Derek Franzen | Route Climbed: Coleman Headwall, Boulder, Squak-Easton & Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: October 25/26 1980 CH & Multiple Times before and since | |
| With E Sandbo & L Rasmussen -->Coleman Headwall trip report. Camping (when doing the Squak) is below rock out-crop visible on the S slope. Route passes by huge crevasses. | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2004 12:04 am | ||
| sublimesalamander | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: 17 July 04 | |
| Had an awsome time right up to the point I lost my camera. But not even that put a damper on things. Thank you Summit Post and contributers for the excellent beta and trip reports. Jess | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2004 12:09 am | ||
| jtostenr | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: August 8, 2004 | |
| I climbed Mt. Baker as part of the Alpine Ascents 3-day climb. Our guides (Eric and Eric) were great and made this an easy climb. After getting drenched coming in on Friday and spending Saturday under the clouds, we were pleasantly surprised to awaken to clear skies early Sunday morning. Spectacular weather and views throughout the day. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2004 8:49 pm | ||
| cluck | Route Climbed: Coleman/Deming Date Climbed: 8/8/2004 | |
| Nice day out on the glaciers. Camped at 7,200' on rocky ridge with great views of the route. CD was busy but not out of control. A couple of snow bridges that may not last long, but attentive parties can find alternatives. Roman wall snow was firm and good for cramponing. 1st time on the mountain and it is a beauty. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2004 12:58 pm | ||
| Elwood | Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Glacier Date Climbed: July 31, 2004 | |
| This was my first climb as a Mazama member, after having climbed more than 20-yrs. with small groups of friends. It was an excellent experience, with a bunch of good folks, & I look forward to climbing with the Mazamas again! Of course, it was made all the better, by perfect weather! | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2004 11:10 pm | ||
| pintlerpro | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: July 27 | |
| Spent 6 days on the mountain and had great weather the whole trip. Learned some skills and made the summit with tons of energy to spare I'll try a harder route next time, The Easton Glacier just is not to steep for a hard effort climb, but does offer good training in the glacier envioroment. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2004 11:26 am | ||
| StephaneFitch | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: July 4, 2004 | |
| We stripped our equipment down to the barest, lightest possible load for this two-day climb. One tent for the five of us. It had been a relatively warm night, so the Easton Glacier was a little soft the morning of July 4. My colleagues, Scott Patterson, Mark Fowlkes, Clay Parks, Tomas Kellner, and I left our campsite low on the Glacier at around 4 a.m. and reached the summit at roughly 9 a.m. The summit was chilly, windy and only partially sunny. We huddled for a half hour there eating our lunch. Scott and I had climbed this route in August 2001, but we enjoyed revisiting it with our friends. We were all a little tired from our climbs of Shuksan and Rainier earlier in the week. I hope the five of us climb together again in 2005. I can't imagine five people I'd rather spend time with in the mountains. Thanks, gents. Stephane Fitch | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2004 2:29 pm | ||
| cp0915 | Route Climbed: C-D Date Climbed: July 19, 2004 | |
| Great climb despite the near white-out no-view. Many thanks to my partner, esugi. | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2004 10:11 pm | ||
| esugi | Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: July 19, 2004 | |
| My third trip up Baker via Coleman-Deming. Climbed with Courtney (cp0915), his first time on a volcanoe. Thunderstorms and rain at night, woke up to a so-so weather and summit was obscured by clouds. Wind picked up along Pumice Ridge and gusting to 50 mph on summit. Near whiteout and very cold from 9500 feet up. No summit view. | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2004 12:24 am | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: June 19, 2004 | |
| We did this climb with our friends from the Mazamas. Crappy weather on the approach foreced us to bivy low (~5400') next to the Railroad Grade. 1am start the next morning under clear and calm conditions. Got to summit at 7am. Crowded. Quick photo and a quick upchuck (felt bad for some reason) and we hiked down/out. Headed down to L-worth for some approach-free cragging. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2004 1:21 pm | ||
| seth | Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: August 15-16, 1999 | |
| Quick weekend up and down, great weather, great views, good times. | |
| Posted Apr 29, 2004 6:33 pm | ||
| Chris | Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming route Date Climbed: July 12, 1999 | |
| What a fantastic mountain! Weather was good, route was great. | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2004 2:40 pm | ||
| carloselbrus | Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: May 2002 | |
| Alpine Ascents 7 days climbing course. | |
| Posted Mar 2, 2004 10:46 am | ||
| esugi | Route Climbed: Coleman - Upper Deming Glacier Date Climbed: July 27, 2003 | |
| Second summit of Baker. We left at 2:40 am and reached true summit at 6:20 am. We took a couple of long breaks. Beautiful summer day with no wind at all. We were a two man team but never felt uncomfortable on the glacier. The route stays in the shade till late morning (10 am in our case) so the snow stayed firm through the entire descent back to camp. | |
| Posted Mar 1, 2004 12:48 pm | ||
| Super Sweet Chops | Route Climbed: Coleman/Deming Date Climbed: October 25 2003 | |
| We couldn't have climbed any later in the year. Super hard ice. The icefall section above Hogback was a total nightmare. Super strong winds but actually a beautiful day. Routefinding a bit of a problem but the beautiful thing, my partner and I on the mountain alone for two days without seeing anyone! | ||
| Posted Feb 9, 2004 10:35 pm | ||
| rleslie | Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: May 1999 | |
| Took AAI six day course. Rain & sleet the entire week & a total white-out at the summit, but loved it! | ||
| Posted Dec 22, 2003 8:01 pm | ||
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