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Mount Langley
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Conditions? Rangers say cornice present, requires extensive technical expertise. Thanks! |
Mike Patterson wrote: Hard to believe, as the south slope route is Class 1 hiking (with a 20-foot section of Class 3 and south-facing. If that's your intended route. |
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Old and New Army Pass are typically corniced in the Spring but based on recent trip reports and pictures that does not seem to be the case now. The Whitneyzone message board typically has pictures from Langley to Williamson. Looks like you should be more concerned about being eaten alive by mosquitos. I remember one year going up with a friend and we were swarmed by at least 50 of those suckers each. We ran like bats out of hell. The only thing that saved us was his bottle of concentrated Deet. |
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We summited from the Northeast couloir in May, superb conditions up top and no mosquitos except where we parked. At this later point in the season, Cottonwood area on your approach might be teeming with those blood-sucking devils. |
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Mike, did you end up going? |
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Hello all, any updates on Old Army Pass conditions? Snowfall? can it be done soon with a crampon or just by skirting the tricky two sections for example? Many thanks. |
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hiked langley via new army pass last weekend. there were a few hundred feet of snow on the pass proper that we bypassed with 3rd class blocks to the right. trail was dry except for this. no bugs. |
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I went up Tuttle Creek May 29 . solid snow line starting at 11k which was nice and firm in the morning and good for cramponing. I imagine things have changed in the last two weeks. Snow was very firm in the couloir and also a lot of rockfall shooting down when we were in there. Didn’t make it to top but heard upper part of couloir has very firm /icy conditions |
