Report
Stanley-Burgner 2021
This was a LONG day. 24 hours and 20 minutes. This one’s probably worth camping for since it’s an exhausting, tough route! Overall notes Communications were actually pretty good, didn’t bring radios and didn’t really need them LOTS of crack climbing! Usually corner/weird cracks, but still, tons of jamming. Gear brought Doubles #0.3-2 and single…
Itinerary
Sunrise: 6:08 AM, sunset: 8:02 PM
Saturday
- 3:00 PM – Drive to Leavenworth (2hrs)
- 5:00 PM – Arrive, get brauts
- 6:00 PM – Drive up Icicle Creek, sleep somewhere
Sunday
- 2:45 AM – Drive rest of the way to trailhead
- 3:15 AM – At trailhead
- 3:30 AM – Start hiking
- 5:30 AM – Colchuck Lake (1:50 hrs last time, dawn at 5:35 AM)
- 7:30 AM – Top of Aasgard Pass (4 hrs from trailhead last time)
- 9:45 AM – At saddle, ditch gear, walk to start
- 10:30 AM – At start
- 11:00 PM – Climbing (6 pitches, ~30 min/pitch)
- 2:00 PM – Top of climb
- 2:30 PM – Rappel (5 rappels, ~10 min/rappel, ~1hr)
- 3:30 PM – Base
- 4:00 PM – Back at saddle/gear
- 4:30 PM – Hike back down
- ~6:30 PM – Top of Aasgard Pass (sunset at 8:02 PM, dusk at 8:34 PM)
- 9:30 PM – Back at trailhead (5 hrs vs 6:15 hrs coming up)
- Midnight – Back home (2:30 hr drive)
Weather
Summary: Full sun but chilly. Starting off and hiking in, temps will be consistently 46 degrees or even a bit cooler as we get up there, like 44 degrees. Winds will be moderate starting at 7mph and increasing to 10-12 mph. During the climb, it’ll be about 43 degrees, but hopefully the route will be full sun and hopefully the ridge will block the wind.
1,000 ft above the trailhead…
At the peak…
