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| Page Type: Route Location: Washington, United States, North America Lat/Lon: 48.77300°N / 121.2788°W Route Type: scramble and minimal snow and glacier travel Time Required: One to two days Difficulty: class 3
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| Page By: tazz Created/Edited: Aug 16, 2005 / Feb 14, 2006 Object ID: 166334 Hits: 1353  Loading... Page Score: 87.55% - 5 Votes  Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
Approach1.Goodell Creek TH 600'. A climbers path all the way to Terror Basin. Path is brushy but easy to follow.
2. Turn to the right after 3.5-4 miles up Goodell creek 1600'
3. Ascend a ridge gaining 3500' in about 1.5 miles
4. At a second creek crossing 5200' climb up the creek bed for 100' there is a cairne
5. Traverse to the basin on climbers paths through heather and rock
6. Climb up to a notch at 6200'
7. Descend about 400' on steep and VERY loose dirt, scree, and rock.
rock fall area so a helmet is your choice.
8. Follow the glacial stream down to the basin where the established camps are.
Route Description1. From Terror Basin camps at 5800 ft descend down to 5500' to an outflow of a green glacial lake. There are many paths that fade in and out here
2. Cross the out flow and skirt around some slab on heather and rock.
There is a crude path here.
3. Climb and scramble up nice slab and rock to the beginning of Terror Glacier.
4. Ascend the glacier to a 30 degree snow finger up a gully. In late season this gully is full of nasty and very loose dirt scree and rock. Rock fall littered the route.
Small crevasses to the left can be avoided and were not a problem in August.
5. Once out of the gully scramble the summit ridge on a mix of rock scree and dirt. some paths are visable but are all over the place.
6. Reach a cool false summit and continue across a short class 3 section to the summit block at 8000'
Essential GearIce axe
Crampons in late season or if an early start in the morning
Helmet used for the descent from the notch and for the climb from the glacier to the summit
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