Route: Mount Adams/South Spur (South Cascades)

Mountain Information:

• Name: Mount Adams
• Region:  South Cascades
• Summit Elevation: 12276 ft / 3742 m
• SummitPost Link: 
• Mount Adams
• South Spur
• Peakbagger Link: 
• http://peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2365
• WTA Link:  
• http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/mount-adams-south-climb

• Mountaineers Link:
• https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/routes-places/mount-adams-south-spur
• Forest Service:
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/giffordpinchot/recarea/?recid=31934

Driving Directions:

• Trailhead: Cold Springs Campground
• South Climb Trail #183
• Co-ordinates: Lat. N46.1365 Long. W121.4965 
• Address: Trout Lake, WA 98650
• Elevation: 5,600 ft
• Pass:  Cascades Volcano Pass
• Directions: Gifford Pinchot National Forest: "From Trout Lake, Washington take Mt Adams Road north to the V intersection with Forest Road 23. At this intersection stay to the right and continue about one mile to the left turn on to Forest Road 80, signed South Climb. Stay on Forest Road 80 to where it ends at the intersection with Forest Road 8040 and 8031. Make a right turn on to Forest Road 8040 and continue driving north past Morrison Creek Campground to the trailhead located in the old Cold Springs Camp area."
• South Climb Condition
• Weather forecast
• Mountain Forecast
• National Weather Service
• Avalanche danger forecast:  
• Northwest Avalanche Center

Route Information: South Spur

• Gain: 6,600 ft
• Round Trip:  14 miles
• Activity: Scrambling
• Difficulty: Strenuous 5, Technical 4
• Season: April, May, June, July, August
• Source: https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/routes-places/mount-adams-south-spur
• Existing tracks:  
• Peakbagger
• GPX on 2017-03-31
• Trip Report

• SummitPost
• GPX on Jul 23, 2011
• Trip Report

• Caltopo Route: https://caltopo.com/m/LULM

Misc 

• Videos  (many more on youtube): 
• Mount Adams South Climb from Timber 
• Mt Adams Climb to the summit in One day
• Other Links: 
• Mountaineers trip report on May 25-27, 2017
• Mountaineers trip report on July 30-31, 2016
• Mount Adams South Climb
• Peakbagger trip report on July 30, 2013
• Solo Climb of Mt Adams via South Spur Route
• Mt. Adams in one day
• THE RESET

Notes

• Camping site (From book Washington Scrambles)
• Lunch Counter at 9400 ft
• At 9050 ft to the left of the snowfield, where there is a water source
• Timberline campground at 6300 ft in the Morrison Creek drainage
•  MT Adams Ranger District:  
• Address: 2455 Hwy 141, Trout Lake, WA 98650
• Phone: (509) 395-3402
• Office hour: Open daily Memorial Day through Labor Day 8:00 to 4:30.  Open fall, winter, and spring Monday- Friday.
• There is a McDonald's before leaving I-84 for Trout Lake:  2101 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR 97031
• Mt. Adams Climbing Conditions Report

• Topo maps: calTopo map.