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mandrake

Cascadian Route

Voted 7/10

Solid user trail in summer from Long's Pass down to connect to the Ingall's Creek trail. There are campsites on both sides of the creek and also several large horse-camp areas with good creek access just below the base of the col. Initial boot-trail heading up was marked with tape as of August 06. Higher up the trail comes and goes entering the boulder field, but the opening of the col is obvious above. Just head up wherever is easiest and don't worry about the route. Higher up, just pay attention to where you come out so you go back down the right way on the descent. Crampons and ice axe were useful on the steep snow slope higher up. Dropped packs just above the snowfield on the ridge (good area for it) and bouldered over to the true summit (easy & fun). Snowfield wasn't melted out enough to get around and rather than risk anything we did three rappels on the descent.

Posted Aug 16, 2006 9:45 pm

JohnGilbert	Trail up Cascadian
Hasn't voted	The distance to the trail up to the Cascadian Couloir is overstated in the main route description. You come down from Long's pass, cross over Ingalls Creek then go about 100 yards north to join the main Ingalls Creek trail. Turn east and go down the trail only a couple hundred yards. At 5000' feet elevation there is an old broken bridge off a side creek and a sign on a tree noting the elevation. A few steps past there is the well stomped trail up Cascadian. It is very easy to find the route up. At first the route goes up through the brush then after about 300 vertical feet, it pops out to an open area. Try to remember spot on the way down, because it is easy to miss it and end up coming back further down the Ingalls Creek trail.
	Posted Sep 11, 2006 6:06 pm

JohnGilbert	Cascadian Snow fields
Hasn't voted	In late summer the snow fields at about 8600 - 8900' feet melt out enough that you can easily go to the left of them. You don't need crampons or ice axe. Specifically, on Sept 10 2006, (which was a big snow year) there was 10 - 20 feet of room to spare. There are 2 separate fields. About midway up the second one, turn left and head over to the ridge which opens the way to the final accent.
	Posted Sep 11, 2006 6:11 pm

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