Location
Washington,
US
Distance
9.3 mi
Description
GPS Track
Mount_Saint_Helens_Monitor_Ridge.gpx938.78 KB
FKTs
- Round trip trailhead-summit-trailhead
- Worm Flows ascent
- Monitor Ridge ascent
- summit-circumnavigation-summit
- summit-circumnavigation
Female
Sarah Burke | 2h 25m 13s | |||
Tara Fraga | 2h 39m 39s |
Male
Peter Innes, Patrick Fink | 1h 37m 47s |
Male
Female
Male
Female
Eric Sauer | 11h 22m 40s |
Marta Fisher | 20h 17m 17s |
Female
Brittany Haver | 11h 57m 34s | |||
Ashly Winchester | 13h 36m 51s |
This route on the old FKT site
Comments
Peter/Patrick,
Great speed run on St. Helens, although several years ago now.  However, I reviewed your Strava data and the GPS clearly shows stopping at the volcano rim, and not breaking to the left, descending ~100' and making the final ~200 ft climb to the true summit.  It's an extremely common thing to do, especially if it was foggy, like it looks like it was when you guys climbed.Â
I was wondering how you would like to handle this as far as future route attempts go.  The route naturally should go all the way to the summit, and the extra segment from the rim to the summit adds ~8 minutes to the climb, and is the most technical part of the whole route.
Looking for general input in how to deal with this discrepancy.
Eric
Thanks for pointing this out. I agree the FKT should go to the true summit. Hopefully the next person will do so, while still beating the times of Peter & Patrick from the TH to the false summit, and from the false summit back down. Please take splits for those!
Tomorrow I am running the wormflow route from Marble Mtn Sno Park.  If conditions permit I will attempt the unsupported FKT.
An update to this - I obviously did not get the FKT.  From what I recall I was ~1m ahead of pace and 60-70% of the way up, but navigated off the route which crippled my chances.  Some other time.
Is there any interest in a Monitor Ridge car-to-car rather than just ascent or do most just glissade down?