Conditions on princeton these days?
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gbateman25
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Conditions on princeton these days?
Been hearing it's dry out there
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HikerGuy
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Re: Conditions on princeton these days?
There is a two day old post on the 13ers Facebook page with 45 photos. They did not summit.
10.82 miles, 4,780’ vert, 10:26 C2C. As I was building a trench through sugar snow under a thin crust up 1,000’ of vert on the subalpine portion of Tigger’s ridge, I realized we probably wouldn’t summit Princeton. Where is our certified trench builder Will Erickson when you need him? Our pace slowed to 2 hours per mile and was reminiscent of our ascent of Alpine Peak earlier this winter. The ridge up Tigger is steep, unstable, and made even slower by a slick verglas coating from the freezes and storms of the previous week. Few footsteps were certain as sugar snow covered holes between rocks attempting to steal our feet. We decided to make an effort to hit Princeton but turned back at our cutoff time, which was a bit painful as we were less than 900’ of vert from the summit, as well as the fact that 14er season will be over after next weekend. The turnaround decision was really made because Alice’s foot got stuck after falling through snow into the space between some rocks, immediately curing her summit fever; we listened to something about a man getting stuck and dying in Glacier the day before. But that summit ridge is slow af with verglas and sugar snow!
