Mount Shuksan via Sulphide Glacier Route
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 13.38 mi
- Elevation gain
- 5,335 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 5,335 ft
- Max elevation
- 7,661 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- 2,572 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Coordinates
- 8298
- Uploaded
- November 1, 2021
- Recorded
- November 2021
near Boundary, Washington (United States)
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Itinerary description
This route is better to do it in two days. We didn't have time so we tried to get the highest we could in just a day.
We started on the Shannon Ridge Trail head early in the morning. The first part of the trail is by the woods, easy tracks. When the forest is over the trail goes by a moraine, a lot of loosing rocks until you get to the glacier.
We went late on the season, there wasn't a lot of snow and all the crevasses were open, so a lot of zig zag we needed to do. To avoid some big crevasses we needed to cross two moraines. We didn't reach to the rock pyramid, me left like 1.5km, and the big rock climbing. We returned so we could be out of the glacier before sunsets. We were on the forest trail when the night fell, but the trail was nice and easy to follow.
We did a 14.5h hike.
For camping on Shuksan you need a permit that you need to buy on parks office and the parking permit you can buy it online.
We started on the Shannon Ridge Trail head early in the morning. The first part of the trail is by the woods, easy tracks. When the forest is over the trail goes by a moraine, a lot of loosing rocks until you get to the glacier.
We went late on the season, there wasn't a lot of snow and all the crevasses were open, so a lot of zig zag we needed to do. To avoid some big crevasses we needed to cross two moraines. We didn't reach to the rock pyramid, me left like 1.5km, and the big rock climbing. We returned so we could be out of the glacier before sunsets. We were on the forest trail when the night fell, but the trail was nice and easy to follow.
We did a 14.5h hike.
For camping on Shuksan you need a permit that you need to buy on parks office and the parking permit you can buy it online.
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