This past Saturday, a few students and instructors ventured off the Tatoosh Range, to tackle The Castle, and Pinnacle. The forecast was for partly cloudy skies, turning to afternoon sun! The stoke was high!

We parked at Narada Falls’ parking lot, climbed to ridge to the closed road, and ventured off towards Reflection Lake. Once there, we headed south, towards The Castle. The snow was crusty, and it was surprisingly warm. Everyone stopped to shed some layers.

Of course, immediately after doing this, some clouds moved in…

Annnnd, it started snowing…

As we hiked up, it got a bit crappier, but we were close to the summit block

…and we kept going

Chase led his first alpine climb and setup a top rope

We cycled everyone through at a leisurely pace

After Ryan climbed up, I went up to clean the summit…

Jason was manning the rappel station

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BEHOLD! PINNACLE! IN ALL OF ITS GLORY!!!

Ryan heading down! I rappelled after, and Jason cleaned the rappel station.

Then we went around to the Pinnacle and Castle saddle to descend

We thought about bagging Pinnacle, but we were running out of time, and there were pizzas waiting to be made and eaten at the cabin…

We took the saddle to the East…

and glissaded the rest of the way down to the road!