Whitehorse 2021

📅 Start: 5/2/2021

Itinerary

Twilight: 5:08 AM, sunrise: 5:43 AM, sunset: 8:23 PM. 12:30 hours car-to-car.

  • 1:15 AM - Leave our house (35 min drive to Gary's)
  • 1:50 AM - Arrive at Gary's
  • 1:55 AM - Leave Gary's (50 min drive)
  • 2:45 AM - Arrive at TH, get ready to go
  • 3:00 AM - Start hiking, 2.7 miles, 2,400 ft gain no snow or mostly snow free (2hrs)
  • 5:00 AM - All snow now, 3.0 miles, 3,836 ft gain (5hrs)
  • 10:00 AM - Summit
  • 10:30 AM - Rappel off summit (1hr with 8 people)
  • 11:30 AM - Off of summit, 3.0 miles, 3,800 ft descent through snow (3hrs)
  • 2:30 PM - Off of snow, 2.7 miles, 2,400 descent on trail (1hr)
  • 3:30 PM - Car

Gear

  • Two 30m ropes
  • 3 liters of water
  • Food for 12 hrs
  • Trail runners for start
  • Ice axe
  • Boots+Crampons
  • Beacon+probe+shovel
  • Extra webbing + rap ring
  • Camera
  • Picket?
  • ❌ No snowshoes needed

Hazards

  • ⚠ Avalanches
    • Lots of them on 4/22, but the whole week leading up to that was some of the sunniest warm weather. Expecting lower danger than on 4/22, so should be reasonable ✅
  • ✅ No crevasses
    • Seems like no need to rope up on the glacier, satellite doesn't show any crevasses

Ascent

7,000 ft gain, 5.5 miles of ascent.

  • First 2.5 miles, 2,000 ft gain should be free of snow (goes to 2,600 ft elevation).
  • Then maybe 0.2 miles, 400 ft up to 3,000 ft elevation (probably constant snow now)
    • 2hrs to this point?
  • 3.0 miles, 3,836 ft gain through snow and summit
    • 4 additional hours?
  • 1hr getting off summit
  • 3hrs back to 2,600 ft elevation
  • 1hr back to car
  • 11hrs total

Historical weather in Darrington

https://www.localconditions.com/weather-darrington-washington/98241/past.php

Apr 11 - 27 / 52 Apr 12 - 27 / 61 Apr 13 - 35 / 63 Apr 14 - 30 / 64 Apr 15 - 36 / 72 Apr 16 - 39 / 73 Apr 17 - 41 / 76 Apr 18 - 41 / 75 Apr 19 - 41 / 70 Apr 20 - 39 / 68 Apr 21 - 37 / 69 Apr 22 - 39 / 62 - Last trip report Apr 23 - 39 / 63 Apr 24 - 45 / 50 Apr 25 - 45 / 54 Apr 26 - 43 / 58 Apr 27 - 44 / 59 Apr 28 - 45 / 64 Apr 29 - 43 / 74 Apr 30 - 52 / 61 May 1 - 44 / 57 (forecasted) May 2 - 39 / 59 (forecasted)