Princeton – Failed

The Princeton trip started off very well but myself and another person decided to deviate from the rest of the group and take the “easier” summer route instead of going up and over Tigger peak. Problems arose when we had to cross a number of avalanche-prone snow fields. We nervously crossed two of them and then came to a steep ~60% slope that we did not feel comfortable crossing at all. At this point, we decided to go straight up a 1000ft+ stepp talus slope which required a lot of scrambling. After spending 2 hours attempting to go up, we still did not reach the ridge. We also saw what we though were people returning down the ridge, not having seen anyone on the direct summit ridge, we decided to turn back as well. However, we turned out to be comepletely wrong and people did not actually turn back. A trip report from one of the climbers who summited.

Sherman

This was fairly straight forward. Took most of the summer route but decided to take a shortcut and go up a steep 30-40 degree snow and talus covered side of Sherman. We hit 30-40 mph winds on the ridge that were knocking us down from the left side of the ridge where the actual trail was. We decided to scramble along the slightly exposed right side of the ridge to be protected from the wind. Glissaded down most of the way via the winter snow route.