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billisfree wrote:IMHO stay off the Mazama glacier in late summer. Crevases start to appear and it's not worth the trouble to go around them.

That's what my climbing instructor told me.

It was good this summer... 8/19. The big crevasse/burgshrund thing at the top of the headwall was a bit of a surprise and unnerving, but everything else was very easily passable

Ben B. wrote:It was good this summer... 8/19. The big crevasse/burgshrund thing at the top of the headwall was a bit of a surprise and unnerving, but everything else was very easily passable

FWIW, much the same yesterday (9/2), except several crevasses now open across the headwall, and the one at the top is messy. Suncups have turned the whole section into stairs. It's getting a bit thin, but we managed to stay on snow from camp to summit.

Glad you didn't have too much trouble.