Hello everyone,
A couple of friends and myself are thinking of climbing Mt. Baker in mid/late may as our first real mountaineering experience (unguided). We all took a glacier travel course last summer in the Columbia Icefield, so we'd like to move on to something a bit bigger and more objective. What are the conditions like? Would it be feasible for nearly beginners to climb it in May via the Coleman-Deming Route. We'd take 3 days I think, one day to practice our crevasse rescue and refresh on skills, one day to get to camp 1 or 2, then summit and down.
My biggest concern is avalanches at this time, and crevasses that aren't completely exposed or uncovered yet.
Thoughts? Again, we've never really done anything like this yet and this would be our first experience. I really appreciate honest answers and don't want to get ourselves into anything that we can't handle yet.
Cheers.