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| POWERJL | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: August, 2000  | |
| 2 days, camped in Ingalls Creek basin. 2nd time on-top. Snow patches near the top of the Couloir. Jeff Power Dave Hart Weiss-Young | ||
| Posted Aug 18, 2005 12:07 pm | ||
| Roadstead | Route Climbed: North Ridge, not just half Date Climbed: July 17 2005 | |
| Tried to do a one day car to car. Started at the Stuart Lake trail head (after leaving a car at Long's Pass trail head ) at 3:00 am, reached summit at 8:30 pm. Spent the night in the open at about 8,000 feet. It was a 32 hours car to car. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2005 9:47 am | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: North Ridge (upper with Gendarme) Date Climbed: July 30, 2005 | |
| Nice route. Did it over a 3-day weekend (camp to camp below Ingalls Lake). Started from camp at 1:30 am. Napped under space blanked before Stuart Glacier for an hour. Stuart Glacier crossing was kinda sketchy with the lightweight approach shoes and light crampons. Got to notch at 7am. Topped out at 1:30pm. Knife-edge traverse was the best part of the climb (pitch 1 of Gendarme was also very good; pitch 2 OW was harder). Only one other party on route. Descent down CC took a long time and sucked (hard on the knees)! Were back in tent at 7pm. Hiked out Sunday morning. PS Running water available from snowfield just below summit on descent. No other running water was encountered (snow patches just below bivy sites at the notch though). PPS Putting things in perspective: here. Impressive!!! | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2005 8:50 pm | ||
| Martin Cash | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July 3, 2005 | |
| Attempted complete NR, but completed only the upper ridge. An excellent alpine ridge climb. The hand traverse sections are really spectacular. Trip Report Here | |
| Posted Jul 12, 2005 11:50 am | ||
| mntnrmichael | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: May 22, 2005 | |
| A long climb, rain, snow, and moderate wind made for an interesting day. My friend and I were strong. A great mountain. | |
| Posted May 22, 2005 6:27 pm | ||
| John Paul | Route Climbed: Stuart Glacier Couloir Date Climbed: May 8th 2004 | |
| Awesome route. Not much ice... | ||
| Posted Oct 6, 2004 4:23 pm | ||
| John Paul | Route Climbed: Girth Pillar: rock fall variation Date Climbed: July 3 2004 | |
| Climbed crack system to the climber's left of Nelson's original line. Pure granite pornography. | ||
| Posted Oct 6, 2004 4:21 pm | ||
| tlogan | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: September 2 2004 | |
| Got about 1/2 of the way up the couloir before the foot of fresh snow and the unending storm forced us to turn around... will return to summit this peak in the near future. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2004 9:12 pm | ||
| jtostenr | Route Climbed: Ulrich's/Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: August 21, 2004 | |
| We left the trailhead at 6PM Friday and headed over Longs Pass. Got to campsite next to creek at 9PM and went to bed early. We hit the trail at 6AM and went looking for the Cascadian Couloir. None of us had ever climbed Mt Stuart before and had a little trouble finding the correct couloir. We ended up ascending Ulrich's Couloir and crossing over to the Cascadian Couloir about 3/4 the way up. Summit ridge was mostly Class 3 with a couple Class 4 spots. Summited about noon and descended the Cascadian Couloir. Very rocky and dusty, but a good trip nonetheless. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2004 4:34 am | ||
| Derek Franzen | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July 4/5 1981 | |
| With E Sandbo & T Rashko. Drove over to TH Friday after work. Hiked in to flat spot in trail in dark and slept next to small creek. Up at 4am and hiked over Ingalls, Goat and Stuart Passes. Crossed glacier and climbed gully to ridge. Refilled water bottles from snowmelt. Ridge climbing good 4th and easy 5th class to Gendarme. Avoided Gendarme with rappel to slabs to the W. Couple of 5th class moves up slabs then scramble to summit. Bivy on summit, low on water but not on food. Tim had backpack full of peanutbutter & margerine sandwiches, Eric had plenty of dried bananas, I had peanut M&Ms and cheese. I climbed into bivy sack and started to dine while buddies threw rocks at Snafflehounds. One Snafflehound wanted to share M&Ms and jumped on my chest where food was, Snafflehound was launched into orbit. Descent of Cascade Couloir long and dry, no water. Halfway down talus balanced boulder, no longer balanced when I climbed on it, trundled over me, split back of scalp and boulder rolled over booted foot. Bandaged head but decided not to take boot off. Finally reached Ingalls Creek must of drank 2 quarts of water. Day turned extremely hot on climb up Longs Pass, thankfully we ran out of water but not peanutbutter & margerine sandwiches. | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2004 9:19 am | ||
| esugi | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: September 22, 2003 | |
| What a long slog! Left the trailhead around 4 am reaching the base of Cascadian Couloir at around 6 am. Long slog up the couloir. Obviously no snow this late in the season. Just plenty of rock, scree, dirt, sand, etc. Summitted at 11 am. Pretty fun towards the top with class 3 (I'd say some class 4) rock to the summit. Descent was uneventful and made it back to the car at 6pm. See my photo submissions. | |
| Posted Mar 1, 2004 1:04 pm | ||
| Moni | Route Climbed: West Ridge/ Sherpa Glacier Date Climbed: Jul 19, 1978 & May 13, 1979 | |
| With Fred both times. Need to go back and do the North Ridge. | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2003 8:57 am | ||
| jasonconnell | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: September 20th 2003 | |
| Climbed with a group of 7 from Starbucks. Great trip, Left the trailhead at 4:45am, reached the summit after 7 hours. After over an hour on the summit we headed down. Great weather, over all the climb is a big slog until you are near the top. | |
| Posted Sep 24, 2003 9:41 pm | ||
| sprosseda | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: August 13, 2003 | |
| Left car at 9am, setup bivi at top of couloir at 7,600 ft. and 2pm, summitted at 6pm, back to bivi at 8pm. Wonderful, quiet, calm and warm night under full moon! Summit is very high with a fun, slabby, dorsal fin tip. Views down to West Horn and North Ridge are awesome. Summit-false summit traverse is enjoyable class 3 scrambling (a few more difficult moves too) but otherwise the couloir is trash. It's fast going down on all the sand though. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2003 11:26 am | ||
| brandon | Route Climbed: West Ridge with Direct Summit Pyramid Variation Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2003 | |
| Car to car from Long Pass Trailhead 14 hours. Exciting vertical pitch up behind Long John Tower. 5 or 6 pitches up to about 5.6 on the summit pyramid. Longest scree and talus descent I've ever experienced down the Cascadian Couloir. At least that trail back up over Long Pass is a straight shot. Woohoo.. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2003 4:33 pm | ||
| leejams | Route Climbed: North ridge Date Climbed: July 5th 2003 | |
| Awesome climb. Views are just Okay but the deal is the fantastic granite . 4 stars for this one. | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2003 12:44 am | ||
| Sean-Scott Ingersoll | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: June 28, 2003 | |
| We had great weather on summit day, a strong party (10 on the summit, I believe), good rock scrambling and some moderately steep snow slopes...all in all, a fine climb. I will never understand, however, how nine other Mazamas can climb the same route I can and appear no worse for the wear, while I come home looking like I was beaten with sticks, stoned (in the Biblical sense), and eaten alive by mosquitos... At least I didn't break anything this time... | ||
| Posted Jul 1, 2003 3:43 pm | ||
| MikeB | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July, 2001 | |
| Attempted route car to car in a day, but summited at dusk. Survived unpleasant and unplanned bivouac (no bivy gear) on summit. Did not climb the Great Gendarme section, but instead rapped to climb the 5.7 traverse/slab pitch. Pitch was very icy and unprotectable, but proved to be very enjoyable lead - well worth the trip. Possibly off route on scramble to summit - finished by soloing loose, overhanging 5.10 blocks. Fun ridge route to climb in boots - mostly high quality granite. | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2002 2:17 pm | ||
| Hammer | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: September 15, 2002 | |
| After a nice and muggy hike over Long's pass into our camp on Ingall's Creek we were dismayed at seeing a huge crowd of tents and bivis at our desired campsite. However, the camp was empty hopefully signifying that everyone was climbing that day. The next day we headed out just before daybreak and headed up the Cascadian Couloir making great time for a large group of 11. We proclaimed ourselves lucky to have the mountain or at least this route essentially to ourselves. We did get passed up by a fast group of two that we later encountered at the base of the small snowfield. After some exciting and fun 3rd class scrambling we found ourselves atop the summit beating out the incoming weather front. We descended with some speed in hopes of beating the weather back to camp but instead felt the heat. As we returned to camp we were surprised to see that we were the only ones left at our once busy campsite. We settled down and discussed our climb. That night it rained pretty good causing my bivi sack to float atop my tarp. It was liking sleeping on a waterbed. The rained stopped as we got out of bed the next morning and kept us cool on our hike out. | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2002 10:02 pm | ||
| Joe Hanssen | Route Climbed: Cascadian Couloir Date Climbed: Summer '95; Summer '96; Summer '97 | |
| Summer '95 reached the top in strong winds and thick cloud cover. Summer '96 was clear and sunny. Summer '97 shared the summit block with three mountain goats. Solo | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2002 9:23 am | ||
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