Climbing to the top of Alpental

skialpental

skialpental

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Alright so my dad bet me 100 dollars I couldnt climb to the top of alpental within one week from today and verify it with a photo. I am confident that I can make it to the top as I have climbed halfway up before no problem but am wondering which route you think would be easier starting from midmountain.

1. Straight up International

2. Up Chair 2 liftline (looks sketchy with several cliffs in the winter

3. On trails to the left of Chair 2 to the top

So theres my three choices unless someone has maybe made it to the top before and knows a better way. Im also wondering if anyone has been up there to see how much snow is left up top because without crampons and that other crap I'd probably just slide downward on steep snowy slopes.

Any thing you can say will help and thanks.
 
With the summer melt, all of the major sun exposed areas become gnarly rocky, cliffed out talus fields. Nash is in an interesting spot where the sun doesn't get all of it, so you could post hole/ scramble up the route much easier than you would under the lift line hiking boulders and bush whacking. I've scrambled the peak before, its pretty fun. Good luck on winning the bet dude
 
Oh mang you could do it. Ive never skied aplental, but i ski stevens a shit ton. I have climbed up to the highest point on cowboy mt while there was still tons of snow. It took me somthing like 2 hours when I was 12 or 13.
 
id say go in threw endelviess up the chair 2 lift line then cut over to an easier route rite wen u get to the base of the bull. That would b the easiest way. I strongly say dont go for nash thats just death way to steep. And there prob isnt any snow the remaining would probaly be on nash so yeah.

hope this helps a bit
 
do you mean the top as in the highest point? or just to the top of chair 2? Cuz there's that reallly big spire in the back country that a friend of mine lead climbed.
 
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