It was an emotional battle trying to decide what to climb this mon-tue. So many options with such great weather sometimes I just don't know what to do. We struggled back and forth between the Adams Glacier on of course Mt. Adams or Eldorado Peak. All the recent trip reports made us lean towards Mt. Adams but in the end, the appeal of the North Cascades won us over. I know, what a contrast in route choices, but we just wanted to see that summit ridge!
We stumbled into high camp excited to be in such a beautiful area. I broke out my new stove (the snow peak giga power, only 3 ounces, boils water great but takes forever to melt snow) and started cooking up some dinner right before night fall. The temperature dropped quickly. It was cold, real cold.
We enjoyed the sun and the views for about a half hour and made it back to camp in 25 min. We broke down camp and prepared for the knee breaker descent back to the car.
We saw a bear cub climbing a cliff along the talus field which was kind of wierd. Never seen a bear climb rock like that before, who knew! After finally reaching the car we realized that My car keys were missing. We were stuck up the cascade river road with no phone reception. Eventually a nice couple from Michigan were on their way out after a day hike up to Cascade Pass. They drove us to Marblemount and even gave us $20 bucks for phone calls. We spent the next few hours trying to find a way to get into my car. All the locksmiths were closed, some guy wanted to tow my car $500, I graciously declined his offer. Eventually we got hold of a good friend in Seattle who was bored so she called my wife to pick up my spare keys and picked us up in marblemount and then drove us to our car. Thank god for bored people!!! We finally made it back to Seattle at about 3 in the morning.Thank You Solina!