The north face of Mt. Maude. This was Matthew's suggestion, within sight of my listed climb of Bonanza (and one of the '9er's' in the headwaters cirque of the Entiat River north of Lake Wenatchee – coincidentally, where Julian and I were just camping this past Memorial Day weekend).
The north face looks spectacularly wild, and my vote will be to approach via the Ice Lakes which will allow us to climb more of the face and at the same time avoid an apparent tricky traverse across it and down from the Seven Fingered Jack/Maude Col (more or less from where this shot was probably taken – although it was probably taken from or near the summit of Seven Fingered Jack). This will be a committing climb where we probably will actually get to finally use the glacier rope and our harnesses (along with some pickets and/or ice screws and most likely a second ice tool). The route is fairly obvious in this shot (at least, it can be seen in its entirety if you know where to look, but it's basically the line running up to just to the right of the summit).
No date set but we'll be doing it soon before the snow melts, although it seems it's doable until at least July depending on conditions of course.
The north face looks spectacularly wild, and my vote will be to approach via the Ice Lakes which will allow us to climb more of the face and at the same time avoid an apparent tricky traverse across it and down from the Seven Fingered Jack/Maude Col (more or less from where this shot was probably taken – although it was probably taken from or near the summit of Seven Fingered Jack). This will be a committing climb where we probably will actually get to finally use the glacier rope and our harnesses (along with some pickets and/or ice screws and most likely a second ice tool). The route is fairly obvious in this shot (at least, it can be seen in its entirety if you know where to look, but it's basically the line running up to just to the right of the summit).
No date set but we'll be doing it soon before the snow melts, although it seems it's doable until at least July depending on conditions of course.
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