Mt. Bross Trip Report 04/24/2009

Report Type	Mini
Peak(s)	Mt. Bross - 14,178 feet
Date Posted	04/24/2009
Date Climbed	04/24/2001
Author	Easy Rider

East Ridge & Moose Creek
4/24/2001 It was stormy earlier that week, so I cancelled the steeps for the time. I left for Alma after school Monday, stopping at the South Park Saloon for food. The Penguins were playing the Capitols. I parked at the Moose Creek TH on the Quartz Creek road; it was a little tricky to tell, with the peaks obscured by snow squalls. I broke trail on low angled, wind-loaded snow. The clouds lifted before it was completely dark, and I caught a view of the routes from a camp at treeline. The gully looked fine. Sleep was fleeting with the constant wind. I did not want to use earplugs because I had to catch an alarm. I wanted an early start to take advantage of any supportable crusting on this east exposure with the potential for wind-loaded pockets. I skinned out of camp in the dark, feeling my way for the ridge to the south. I wish I had clear lenses to protect my eyes from spindrift. Alma twinkled, and the sun turned the scaled snow a light rose under me. If every climb is unique, for Bross, it was watching the clouds rolling over the pass at sunrise. When I stopped skinning to hike, I noticed that my leaking camelback had frozen all my zippers. I was surprised by the size of the flat summit of Bross, and found the summit register on the far end, closer to the Moose Creek run. There was a little new snow from the summit, but it did not connect to the top of the run. My rationale here was that I was still standing taller than the summit from where I strapped in again. To be any more critical is to trivialize the run itself. The run into Moose Creek was not very big, or steep. I trended left on consistent wind hammered snow, and made it across some low angled areas back to camp. The pow run back to the car was nice easy riding. Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):

East Ridge & Moose Creek

4/24/2001

It was stormy earlier that week, so I cancelled the steeps for the time. I left for Alma after school Monday, stopping at the South Park Saloon for food. The Penguins were playing the Capitols.

I parked at the Moose Creek TH on the Quartz Creek road; it was a little tricky to tell, with the peaks obscured by snow squalls. I broke trail on low angled, wind-loaded snow. The clouds lifted before it was completely dark, and I caught a view of the routes from a camp at treeline. The gully looked fine. Sleep was fleeting with the constant wind. I did not want to use earplugs because I had to catch an alarm. I wanted an early start to take advantage of any supportable crusting on this east exposure with the potential for wind-loaded pockets. I skinned out of camp in the dark, feeling my way for the ridge to the south. I wish I had clear lenses to protect my eyes from spindrift. Alma twinkled, and the sun turned the scaled snow a light rose under me. If every climb is unique, for Bross, it was watching the clouds rolling over the pass at sunrise.

When I stopped skinning to hike, I noticed that my leaking camelback had frozen all my zippers. I was surprised by the size of the flat summit of Bross, and found the summit register on the far end, closer to the Moose Creek run. There was a little new snow from the summit, but it did not connect to the top of the run. My rationale here was that I was still standing taller than the summit from where I strapped in again. To be any more critical is to trivialize the run itself.

The run into Moose Creek was not very big, or steep. I trended left on consistent wind hammered snow, and made it across some low angled areas back to camp. The pow run back to the car was nice easy riding.

Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):

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