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Frigid Mountain via Chatter Creek

• Date: 2012/05/19 Trip type: scramble Elevation gain: approx. 4,677 feet Round-trip distance: approx. 8.4 miles USGS quad: Big Jim Mountain Car-to-car time: 8 hours 55 minutes 5 hours 5 minutes ascending from Chatter Creek trail head to summit of Frigid Mountain 3 hours 7 minutes descending from summit of Frigid Mountain to Chatter Creek trail head

• GPS track of our route, courtesy of Dick Lambe.

• Our Seattle Mountaineers party of nine, heading up the Chatter Creek trail.

• Crossing Chatter Creek.

• Slides below the south peak of Frigid.

• Ascending the steep SW slope below the north summit.

• Looking SW from the north summit of Frigid Mountain.

• David doing a group photo op.

• Painters Thumb

• Big Jim Mountain

• Point 7760 (left) and Big Lou Mountain (right).

• Cornices between Frigid's north and south summits.

• The south summit of Frigid Mountain, it was tough to determine which summit was higher so we went to both. Cashmere in the background.

• A great glissade down.

• Cashmere Mountain

• Lots of glissading on the way back.

• Fording a tributary of Chatter Creek.

• A burn on a shoulder of Cashmere.

• Back on the Chatter Creek trail.