Regional discussion and conditions reports for the Northern Rockies. Please post partners requests and trip plans in the Northern Rockies Climbing Partners section.
Excerpts from The Daily Interlake March 23 edition:
Glacier National Park road crews are starting spring snow plowing, and Going-to-the-Sun Road will not open over Logan Pass any earlier than June 18 because of construction that requires two-lane closures.
Mountain snowpack in Glacier is below average this year, but park officials stress that is not a good indicator of conditions that plow crews may encounter over the next few months ...
I wanted to post in the MontanaIce forums but I couldn't get a name registered. If anyone is interested, available, and willing to go climb some ice this upcoming weekend in Hyalite please send me a PM.
I am in Butte for the next several weeks for work and I brought a small assortment of passive rock gear, a couple screws, a rope, and my ice tools. I think this is the last weekend that ...
Anybody here climbed East Ridge of the Grand? I am planning to do it over this 4th of July weekend with three partners (two pairs of two). Wondering about how much snow gear I should take, any decent bivy spots on the way to the summit, things to watch out for, beta, etc. We are thinking to take two days car to car.
Hi i am looking to do a route on the Grand next week some time... Any suggestions...
if anyone has done anything up there lately id love to hear, that would be a big help to me... I guess that the Owen/spaulding might be the best. Or any beta on the Exum in winter would be sweet...
Also my climbing partner is a little flaky so if anyone is interested drop me a mail..
cheers
Is there anyone with information on an early spring trip to Granite? Sould a ski approach be planned for? And is the road plowed by the power company? Any beta helps!!!!
I am going to be working near Butte for a couple of weeks around the end of March and the early part of April and I am going to have weekends to myself. Any good skiing / ice climbing / anything I should look into while I am there?
anyone have solo backcountry exp in GNP? Looking to go in july to gunsight pass trail/Sperry chalet and/or kintla lake to hole in wall/browns pass. possible iceberg lake, ptarmigan tunnel, etc.
looking for advice on getting to best BC campsites in park and as far as possible from crowds. did Kintla lake in 08 but not to HIW.
How difficult is it to leave vehicle at one trailhead and come out at another and get ...