Mt Adams beta?

Yes, saw three in the wilderness zone. Everyone else observed the wilderness signage.

Did you report the three you saw to the Rangers?

Did they do anything about it?

If there are snowmos on Adams, there are snowmos where they are not supposed to be, kinda like death and taxes. Ranger station is closed on weekends right now.

ill have a full photo report avail soon. snomos at lunch-counter and a bit higher even. going to be on the horn with TL RD tomorrow morning.
as well, can one ride a dirt bike or a 4 wheeler on the south climb trail up to the wilderness boundary? if not, i'm very confused about why a snowmo can ride on the trail for large melted out sections and make a horrible mess.


spoke with father and son who camped at lunch counter on saturday 4/18 and confirmed seeing riders up there. They said they heard there was a USFS truck parked below that had a trailer for two sleds so they wondered if that was some FS personnel and they got close enough that they didn't see any markings whatsoever that would lead them to think it was FS persons (which it wouldn't be anyways). That said the FS persons truck and trailer (sans sleds) was parked there this morning (4/19) and evening..not sure what they're doing up there-would be interested to hear.

Kind of a funny side note to the snowmobile story: Two guys passed us as we were skinning through the trees down low. They had skis with them. I don't know where they left their sleds, but we ended up passing them towards the top of Pikers. Human power rules!

I don't know what the snomo rules are down at Adams, but it's been such a bad year, they're as desperate as we are for some spring snow fun.  And there aren't many options.  Baker is the normal late season snomo destination, and it basically never opened for sledding this year.  No excuse for breaking the rules if that's what happened, but I suspect they normally have the run of the place this time of year.

BTW - Anybody have recent shots of the White Salmon/Avalanche Glaciers?

You can get a partial peek at the west side from mtadams.tv .