North Twilight Peak

Route: north ridge
Posted On: 7/5/2025, By: zootloopz
Info: summer conditions. 4 hours move time round trip -- 14mi / 3700gain. the climb from crater lake is labeled as a segment on strava if you need directions. also also, i love the weminuche. 

Route: traverse
Posted On: 9/27/2024, By: zootloopz
Info: No snow on route, 8:14 from andrews lake after summiting west needle, south twilight, and twilight. descended off ridge directly towards crater lake, would make an excellent ascent option as well. details in stavislost report. 

Route: North Face Couloir
Posted On: 5/27/2024, By: 14ercooper
Info: Andrews Lake appears to be open (restroom stocked, no/minimal snow on the road). Snow starts almost immediately after the lake, and gets fairly continuous once you hit the wilderness boundary. Very snowy still, but solid day on a fun line! 

Route: 4th of July
Posted On: 5/23/2024, By: Jorts
Info: Went up 4th of July and skied down the pinner to the lookers right of it. The couloir and the apron were still holding plenty of snow all the way down to tree line. Bit of dirt on the surface. The traverse to and from Andrews Lake was patchy. Lots of skis on skis off. The trail itself probably won't be completely melted out for another few weeks +/-. The summit of North Twilight was completely snow covered as was the ridge to Twilight. 

Route: East ridge from Crater lake
Posted On: 9/3/2023, By: SnowAlien
Info: Did N Twilight -> Twilight -> S Twilight ->West Needle loop from camp at Crater lake. East ridge was fun - a few moves that required attention. On Twilight we went up the steep loose narrow gully with the choke, then took the ridge to the summit. 

Route: 4th of July Couloir
Posted On: 4/30/2023, By: Wildernessjane
Info: Summited North Twilight and descended via the 4th of July Couloir. We skinned almost to the base of the couloir. Conditions near the top were pretty variable with some breakable crust but the lower part of the couloir and apron skied beautifully. A fair bit of slide activity in the area. The approach, which we underestimated, involved quite a bit of route finding in the dark and lots of ups and downs. Definitely felt like a big day. 

Route: From Twilight Peak
Posted On: 8/22/2020, By: supranihilest
Info: Somewhat involved from Twilight Peak. Instead of following the ridge direct we dropped slightly west and traversed north under the ridge crest. A steep dirt and rock gully appeared but we stayed above it and continued on exposed, loose Class 2+ to Class 3 terrain until we were near the eastern edge of ridge. Instead of dropping g directly into the massive notch on the ridge we continued over a rib and down on Class 2+ terrain. The notch descent was Class 2+/Class 3, very steep, and very loose, but not too long. We squeezed past a big boulder at the bottom then 15-20 feet up Class 3 ledges directly to the right, which eventually opened into basic hiking terrain to the summit. To descend we went down towards Twilight and took steep dirt/tslus/grass to the lake in the basin then contoured around and back to Crater Lake. 

Route: Northeast Ridge
Posted On: 7/22/2017, By: TravelingMatt
Info: From Crater Lake, go around lake either way and head for obvious ridge to left. Gain ridge just above treeline and follow until you are some 200' below North Twilight's main east-west running ridge. From here a climber's trail diverges to left (east) but eventually reaches the main ridge. Once on main ridge it is mostly class 2 to summit with a couple 2+ moves required through notches.