Climbed Little Sister today (N ridge/aka "Grassi Route"), a highly
enjoyable adventure as usual.
The route was in good shape, mostly dry with occasional icy patches in
the gully. Descent rappels are in decent shape with mostly new slings.
Bring along a hammer, pins, and tat in addition to your cams: this is
still an old school mountain.
There's a quite decent approach trail that starts about 1 km from the
golf course, and I recommend taking the time to find it. From your car,
take your choice of a wide variety of roads and trails east of the creek
and head south. Pretty much where the major treed ridge off of the
Little Sister comes down close to the creek you'll find a steep bank
with a trail to your left/east. This is right around where you start to
see pieces of an old wooden penstock and well before the dam. The path
is well defined and fairly well flagged almost all the way to the base
of the route except for a section of blowdown about 100m up from the
creek, and at the obvious "Sound of Music" glade that you can see from town.
Regards,
Tom Wolfe
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