April 28/29, Mt. Adams

With a good forecast for southern washington, Dave, Clayton, Eric and myself headed south for adams.  We drove up the road until about 4,000' (~5 miles or so from cold springs).  We broke off the road after a few miles, and just skinned straight to treeline up the drainage, camping at 7,000 feet or so.  We went to bed under a calm, star filled sky...  We woke up around 5 to get packing, but the wind was blasting, the barometric pressure had dropped 80mBar overnight, nasty clouds appeared to the west, and a nice sized lenticular had made itself comfortable over the summit; back to bed it was!  We kept checking, but the wind never died and the lenticular stuck around until 10 or so when we decided to head down.  Everything was still pretty frozen (and it was pretty chilly) until about 5000 feet, and the wind was pretty fierce.  Of course, on our drive home, we looked back and saw the lenticular had cleared, although it was most likely pretty windy up high, as it was gusting 20-30knots on 141.