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Mountain Loop Highway > Del Campo Peak > Climber's Log|
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| jordansahls | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: april 28, 2005  | |
| It was an awesome hike. I went with a group of people; we decided that Del Campo would be a good training hike for Rainier. When we finally cleared the streams and broke into the sub alpine stuff we cut the trail short and headed straight up towards the peak. It was a good slog up 45 to 50 degree slopes in snow. We got to the base of the mountain and started our climb up to the top. It was great, there’s a good amount of exposure, but its not really dangerous. It was a lot of fun with all of the snow on most of the upper trail. | |
| Posted May 4, 2005 1:50 am | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: Standard (class 3) Date Climbed: October 5, 2003 | |
| After topping out on North Early Winter Spire the previous day, my wife and I were looking for something more "aerobic" to do as a day climb. Del Campo came to mind with its respectable elevation gain and reasonable round trip distance. We paid a visit to Gothic Basin the previous year but due to a late start from TH did not make a summit attempt. This time we started earlier. Gothic Basin and Foggy Lake in particular are spectacular! Would've been a great place to overnight (though hauling the bivy gear up the steep trail from Barlow Pass would be painful). The summit scramble (class 3) looked steep enough that we decided not to "drag" our dog with us - we topped out in the notch and tied the dog there while we made the summit. The summit register is missing a writing instrument which we did not have with us to leave behind. | |
| Posted Oct 6, 2003 11:41 am | ||
| scottv | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: August, 1997 | |
| Wonderful group camping trip and scramble with the McDuff clan and brother Reese. Trail to basin damp, but fine. Beautiful camp and swims at Foggy lake on day 1. Scramble with kids and dogs on day 2. All managed 30m traverse across permanent snow field, but class 3 gully was too much for one climber and one dog. Generally solid rock and great views. Another attempt in late June, 2001, was much rougher -- featuring tough route finding and snow traverses in the mile leading up to the basin and pitching tent on rare snowfree ground in thunderstorm. | |
| Posted Oct 21, 2002 1:04 pm | ||
| leftfield | Route Climbed: Southeast "rampart" Date Climbed: October 2002 | |
| Beautiful late season (Columbus Day) scramble. Camped just below Barlow Pass. Trail to Foggy Lake muddy in spots. Compass, map and guidebook helped me determine which peak was Del Campo. 45 minutes up from Foggy Lake to summit. Ideal conditions. With binoculars could see all major peaks from Baker to Adams. Great way to end my climbing season. | |
| Posted Oct 17, 2002 7:48 pm | ||
| scot'teryx | Route Climbed: Weden Creek Trail to climbers trail Date Climbed: 10/20/01 | |
| Hiked for 1 mile up the Monte Cristo road to the Weden Creek trailhead and followed that for 2 miles to Foggy Lake. Trail consitions were bad 1.5 miles up as there was ice all over the place and frozen waterfalls. Lots of bush belaying and such. Once we were at the basin, we had a hard time navigating as it was mixed snow and granite, and brush. Just explored a little bit and headed North and found a few frozen lakes, then finally found Foggy Lake which is at the base of Del Campo. Absolutely incredible scene as Del Campo looks huge! Headed around the right side of the lake as Beckey describes but lost the trail quite a few times and lost cairns as well. Lots of hard windblown ice and snow that ranout on steep slopes into the lake, so we used our crapmons for the traverse back as Del Campo really intimidated us. We wound up meeting a few solo folks and headed up towards Gothic Peak (6300') and ascended some steep snowfields of ice and windblown drifts that were 2-3 feet deep. Had lunch at our highpoint at around 6000'. Beautiful day until the clouds came in around 2-3 pm and we descended. A long and tiring walk out, especially the flat Montecristo road back to the trailhead. Mayber we will summit this puppy next spring | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2001 1:36 am | ||
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