Mike Monterusso will lead "About Face" with a duration of 3 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 at the Glen Alps parking lot. We’ll head east on the Powerline and explore the lower part of the Wedge. We may ultimately skirt the Wedge and return via a flagpole route.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Monochrome Pass" with a duration of 2 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Rendezvous at 6:30 pm at Goldenview Middle School on Goldenview Drive for carpooling to the start. We will explore miscellaneous slopes and ridges west of Potter Creek Ravine Park.
Traction devices for your shoes STRONGLY encouraged (LOTS of ice).
The photo composite below is from a January 20th field review of the route. On left, heading up. On right, selfie among stately mountain hemlock trees (protection against the ferocious winds).
E. Marquez will lead "Rough on the Edges" with a duration of 3.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Prospect Heights trail-head. W will take the main
trail towards Wolverine Peak before turning off towards Rusty Point
where we will bushwhack down the hill back to the Middle Fork Trail.
Mike Monterusso will lead "Figure 41" with a duration of 1.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 at the North Bivouac trailhead in Far North Bicentennial Park. We’ll run the Tank Trail and take the connector to the Basher Rd trailhead. From there we’ll do a loop on the Wolverine Bowl trail and/or other trails before returning via Basher Rd or the Tank Trail.
Mike Monterusso will lead "Between a Rock and a Cold Place" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 at the Glen Alps parking lot. We’ll head toward powerline pass and explore the lower (western) section of the Wedge, approaching from the southwest. Return will be the reverse route or via the Ship Pass side. Snowshoes may be helpful.
E. Marquez will lead "Solstice Celebration" with a duration of 3 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Rendezvous at 6:30 PM at the Prospect Heights Trailhead. We will take the Powerline Trail past Glen Alps to the Middle Fork Trail and up to the Ballfield and return.
Mike Monterusso will lead "Sedixo nori" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at Prospect Heights at 6:30pm. We’ll take the trail to Middle Fork toward Glen Alps. We’ll bushwhack up the west side of Rusty Point, move a short distance along the ridge, then descend back down the southwest side to the Middle Fork trail. We’ll then return the way we came to complete the “figure balloon” pattern.
E. Marquez will lead "In Between" with a duration of 3 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
We will meet in the Prospect Heights parking lot at 6:30. We will head to the summit of Near Point then descend to the valley between Near Point and Wolverine Peak and find a way back.
Mike Monterusso will lead "Transverse Process" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Glen Alps parking area. We’ll ascend the Little O’Malley saddle and bushwhack a course roughly parallel to the Middle Fork trail. We’ll cross the Williwaw Lakes trail and consider ascending Rusty Peak, then return via the Middle Fork trail.
E. Marquez will lead "Wabbit Season" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:15 (note earlier meeting time) at the point where Upper Dearmoun Rd meets Canyon Rd. We will carpool as needed to the end of Canyon Rd. From there we will do a roughly figure nine route toward McHugh peak.
Mike Monterusso will lead "Couloirs of Fall" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 at Glen Alps parking area. We will follow the Powerline Trail until we reach Ptarmigan Pass. We’ll ascend toward the pass, then follow the ridgeline back to the west and descend via Flattop. An alternate return route on the Rabbit Creek side may be explored if one presents itself.
E. Marquez will lead "Double Suicide" with a duration of 5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Falls Creek trailhead on the Seward Highway. We will head up the Falls Creek Trail, ascend South Suicide Peak, descend into Windy Gap, ascend North Suicide Peak, and return. Brown bears may be present.