
| Duane, Joel and I traveled to Holden and hiked to Holden Lake on Wednesday the 14th. We started from from camp at 5:15A and summitted at 1:15P. It took I believe 8 25m rap pitches to return to the snow thumb, then we hiked back to the lake, arriving at about 7:15 for a 14-hour day. The conditions on the glacier were perfect, but with the warm weather I'm guessing there will be open crevasses on the route within a couple of weeks or so. With this climb I became the second person to complete the county highpoints of Washington. |