South Sister, Mount Bachelor
A double volcano day hanging around Bend, OR.
Sunset on Mount Bachelor
Morning on South Sister
Broken Top
Well those clouds moved in quick
Cool pattern, no idea what this is
A hint of glaciers even on OR’s volcanos
Flaaat summit plateau, I did manage to ski across it without taking them off albeit with a tricep workout
Middle and North Sisters
Then Jefferson and Hood further back
Cool clouds over Broken Top
After finishing South Sister, managed to climb up Mount Bachelor while the resort was still open
South Sister from across the valley
Different angle of Broken Top
I overstayed my summit and managed to get down with the resort all to myself in pretty slushy but fun conditions!
Notes
- South Sister was probably ~11 miles and ~5000 feet of vertical gain in 4 ½ hours, and Mount Bachelor was probably ~4 miles and 2700 feet of vertical gain just shy of 2 hours.
- South Sister was flat in two sections, the middle part and summit plateau. Not sure if there is a good way to avoid having to skin the middle flats on the ski down.
- After doing some research, doing the Three Sisters Traverse doesn’t seem that compelling. I feel like it’d be hard to time the corn aspects, getting the access/road timing would be tricky, and South Sister wasn’t particularly inspiring. I’d be compelled to do the Diller Headwall off the Middle then do something off the south side of North, since it seems kind of logical with the sun and the proximity between those two versus having to tack on South Sister.