Mount St. Helens Guide
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shaberer0511
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Mount St. Helens Guide
I am looking for a guide or a trail description for Mount Saint Helens in Washington. I'd love to climb it next year, but I'm having a hard time finding a good route description. Any ideas or links to a good guide?
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LoneStar
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Re: Mount St. Helens Guide
Google Monitor Ridge Climbing Route. Several good links there with info. I did this climb back in 1994. Lots of fun except for the fact that the summit was shrouded in clouds when I got up to the rim. Could not see down into the crater. Have never made it back there.
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LadyClimber
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Re: Mount St. Helens Guide
Monitor Ridge on St. Helens is a trail to timberline then you follow poles and user trail to the last scree/ash slope. It's really straight forward.
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TravelingMatt
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Re: Mount St. Helens Guide
One way up, unless you can convince the USFS that you have some sort of research-related reason to go a different way.
Your sleeping options are basically to car camp at the trailhead (it's quite large) or stay at one of the couple motels in the village of Cougar and check out around 4-5 am.
Your sleeping options are basically to car camp at the trailhead (it's quite large) or stay at one of the couple motels in the village of Cougar and check out around 4-5 am.
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Wish I lived in CO
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Re: Mount St. Helens Guide
My wife and I attempted this back in about '02. We got up pretty high and only turned around because her knee was not feeling good. What LadyClimber said, it's pretty easy to follow the route, I don't see why you'd need a guide. Rainier on the other hand probably you would.
Nice trip report here:
http://14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.ph ... ki=Include
Nice trip report here:
http://14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.ph ... ki=Include
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