Mt Madison via Madison Gulf Alpine Ice Climb

Summary
OwnerEric Gilbertson
Creation Date2014-03-09 21:53:35 UTC-0400
DescriptionEric, Aaron, Katie, Anna
March 8, 2014

We hiked up valley way to madison hut and dropped down into madison gulf, reaching the ice after about 4 hours. Surprisingly two other people showed up just after us. They were lucky we'd broken trail for them, since they didn't have snowshoes. It started out sunny and warm and we climbed up the longest line, "Point", WI3, for 3 pitches. At the top the clouds rolled in, it got cold and windy, and freezing fog came in. We bushwacked back up to the madison-adams col, tagged the summit of madison, and made it back to the car for an awesome 13-hr round trip.

Eric