Live Webcams:
Current Conditions:
May 17, 2012:
An RMI team of guides headed up the mountain on Tuesday to kick in and set the route.
Unseasonably warm weather found the team dressed only in the lightest possible layers.
The Ingraham Glacier Direct, which RMI guides had used the week prior, developed a
difficult to cross crevasse, so Tuesday's RMI guide team, with help from an IMG guide team,
established the Disappointment Cleaver route. The route was kicked in, wanded, and a nice
route was shoveled across the Nose of the Cleaver. Nice switchbacks were kicked and chopped
in all the way to the top of the Cleaver at 12,300 feet.
Today's climb was entirely different with weather - significantly colder - with the forecast calling for yet colder temps in the days to come. Today our climbers wore every bit of clothing they had with them, including down parkas and mittens on the last leg to the top! Temps were estimated at near 0 degrees F. Brrr!
Photos taken August 15, 2011:
Crevasse at 12,300' on the Disappointment Cleaver Route.
Summit climb team leaving High Break.
Crevasse at 13,700'. Mt. St. Helens in the background.
Nearing the summit ridge