I have booked a tent pad at Helm Creek for 2 nights starting August 10th and want to try for Castle Towers. This is not an easy objective, almost entirely off trail after the campsite, will require navigation and scrambling (described as moderate in the scrambles book).
Plan is for the first day to just get to the campsite and chill. Second day wake up and do Castle Towers. NOTE that this is a 2000m day from the campsite! I am planning on taking a route that avoids the glacier (see https://fatmap.com/routeid/3006779/castle-towers?fmid=cp for an idea of what it would look like). Day 3 would be to just get back to the car.
If you are accepted, then please book a tent pad for yourself, it looks like there are still lots of spots available for this time.
Expect snow travel (though recent satellite images show Polemonium ridge might be snow free), so I'll be bringing crampons and ice axe.
Backup objectives are Gentian Peak and Black Tusk in case Castle Towers doesn't go.
I'm not a guide and definitely still learning. Please prepare for this trip as if you were going by yourself.
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