CMC HAMS Protecting a Snow Climb
- 5. • Mt. Rainier, Kautz Glacier route
- summit day
- altitude 11,000’
- ice chute, 45 – 50 degrees, about 150’ feet
- team: 3 experienced ice climbers,
1 beginner
SCENARIO
- 7. SCENARIO
• Mt. Rainier, Liberty Ridge route
- summit day, ascending 3,000’
- 40 – 50 degree slope
- hard snow, good for cramponing, sketchy
for ice ax self belay/arrest, 3,000’ run out
onto glacier
- 3 experienced climbers
- 9. SCENARIO
• Mt. Rainier, Liberty Ridge route
- summit day, crossing bergschrund
- 15’ soft snow
- 45 degree hard snow runout
- 11. SCENARIO
• Grizzly Peak couloir climb: descent
- 1,100’ descent
- 70 degree, very hard snow at top,
steepness eases lower down
- no self arrest possible
- safe runout
- 2 experienced climbers