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Baker Saddle

Type
Pass
Altitude
2192m
Part of
Main Divide
Baker Saddle and La Perouse, January 2013
Lat/lon
-43.61118174,170.0974026, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX15 658 672
Accessed from
Hooker Glacier
Strauchon Glacier
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
3.26 3.26Hooker to Strauchon, III,3 III,3 0m
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From the upper Hooker Glacier, climb a short steep snow face, often complicated with a couple of large crevasses.
To descend to the Strauchon Glacier, follow down a long snow slope directly from the saddle if crevasses allow. Otherwise head left (south) about 300m from the saddle to a shingle rib, and then descend this to the lower Strauchon Glacier.
Watch out for icefall off La Perouse on both sides of the saddle, especially in the Strauchon.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) III
  • Alpine (Technical) 3
Comments
Peter Dickson

The East side of Baker Saddle commonly always has wet snow avalanches in summer which are triggered by climbers, When descending in the afternoon make sure you kick off the wet surface layer of snow as you descend otherwise you could be caught up in wet snow sloughs which might sweep you off and into the crevasses at the bottom.

Fri, 16/09/2011 - 02:09 Permalink
This place appears in
Aoraki Tai Poutini: a guide for mountaineers, 2018
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Attribution
ATP 2018 (Rob Frost)
UUID
 
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