Looking out over the Stewart Range

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Ferdy Christant

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Would that actually be an area you'd cross? Or too dangerous? Posted 4 years ago
1. morpheme
  
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  The Stewart range? Some people climb it. It's not extremely tall, but it is an honest to goodness mountain with year round snow fields. It's not quite like climbing a huge summit, but you do need basic mountaineering skills - how to use an ice axe, self arrest, how to use crampons. It's not uncommon for one or two people to die there in any given year.... either they fall and cannot self arrest or they fall through ice bridges into running water under the snow.
  
  There's a pass called Aasgard (really) that hikers use to get into the interior of the area that tops out at 7800 feet. It's the shorter of the routes to get in, but it's considered to be the hard way to go..
  
  https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/mount-stuart
  https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/dragontail-peak
  https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/aasgard-pass Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago