PSA:
The NWS always appreciates observations, especially detailed observations that everyone on here is capable of giving. That can be done thru Twitter, as they often set up a feed for that, or the mPing app. That can include final snowfall amounts, when the snow starts/stops, precip type, dew point, etc
This helps them with short term forecasts as well as future forecasts as they can learn from them. A few years ago they had a freezing rain advisory for Leavenworth, but I notified
Yeah, this is great. Can really see the deeply -PDO in place, with the most extreme anomalies on the entire planet in the central Pacific. And warm Atlantic hurricane corridor.
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being Mailbox peak and a 10 being K2, I'd place it around a 6. Highly depends on the year and month you go, we were early in the season so the fixed lines above 14k camp were still being de-iced meaning we couldn't use them, and that section is a long 50 degree slope of blue ice. Basically the entire route below 14k camp is spent on highly crevassed Glaciers, but we came on a high snow year and had stable snowbridges the entire way, we were lucky enough to only have 1 group member fall in a crevasse. There's a number of knife edge ridgewalks, where a fall not caught by rope or arrested with an ice axe would mean certain death. And of course there is a lot of Avalanche danger and risk of frostbite in a major storm.
Worst part is that you're legally required to carry 2+ weeks of sh*t in your backpack, back in the 80s we were allowed to throw it in the famous poop crevasse.
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