- Advanced Skill Level Advanced
- Ages 16+ Ages Ages 16+
This is our ultimate climbing course. Push yourself physically and mentally while further developing your mountaineering and alpine climbing skills.
Quick Details
Northeast Buttress – Summer –
The Northeast Buttress of Chair Peak is an alpine route that will make you feel like you are in the rugged mountains of the North Cascades. Instead, you’re only an hour away from Seattle, so this becomes a great single-day outing in the mountains. The route starts at the toe of the buttress and ascends a diagonal snow ramp with a small bulge half-way through, and ends at a tree. Continue through moderate mixed terrain or snow to the bottom of the ice crux. Climb through the drip to steep snow above, and continue to the summit.
South Face or Northeast Slab – Summer – Beginner/Intermediate, Grade II, Class 5.4, and Steep Snow; or Intermediate/Advanced, Grade III, WI 3, Steep Snow
The Tooth is included in Nelson and Potterfield’s Selected Climbs in the Cascades Volume 1 and 2. Regardless of the route you choose, you’ll enjoy this alpine route. The South Face affords easy rock climbing with an amazing pay-off, whereas the Northeast Slab jumps up in objective difficulty and becomes a true winter route.
South Face – Winter – Beginner, Grade II, and Class 5.4
The South Face of the Tooth is a great beginner climb for anyone who wants an alpine experience worth every minute of the approach it took you to get there. There’s a reason it’s included in the first volume of Nelson and Potterfield’s Selected Climbs in the Cascades. Three pitches of low fifth class climbing gain the modest summit of the Tooth, as you’re surrounded by the sharp peaks at Snoqualmie Pass.
Snoqualmie Pass is Seattle’s hidden gem for Alpinism. Within an hour from Seattle, you can climb traditional rock and ice routes and be back in Seattle for dinner, all year long.
We offer climbing on three different peaks in the pass. All of them are true alpine objectives that will make you wonder how you are so close to the city. After a few hours of hiking you will find yourself climbing on spectacular Washington classics that offer their own unique challenges.
Looking to get your first taste of alpine climbing? Already have some experience but want to explore what Snoqualmie has to offer? Join us and discover what the pros already know. Snoqualmie Pass is a climbers playground just waiting to be explored!
Contact us to develop a custom itinerary for you and your party.
These are custom climbs; please visit our custom pricing page for the most accurate cost.
Out-of-Town Participants
We recommend that anyone flying into Seattle arrive as early as possible on the day before the trip. We also recommend you do not book a return flight until late (red-eye) on the last day of the trip, or the following morning.
Mountaineering: Beginner course is required prior to the climb of Shuksan.
You will receive a full packing list following registration, but please feel free to contact us with any gear or equipment specific questions you have. A brief list of what you will need to provide for yourself:
Transportation and times will be coordinated by email when the pre-trip announcement is sent to all registrants.
Consider joining us for any of our other Mountaineering Courses
“The date I want isn’t listed.” Please visit our Custom Courses page and contact us to book a private or custom course that fits your needs.
“I don’t see any dates.” Several of our courses run infrequently. We invite you to opt for a waitlist on our courses that do not have visible dates on the course calendar. When enough people sign up for that course, we will select a course date and invite you all to register then.