Route: Goode/NW Buttress Climbed: July, 1997 Grizzly creek can be forded about 200 down stream from the trail crossing. Beckey's topo for the ascent to base camp is accurate. We had clear weather and lots of snow so going was easy. We took the right, slab route. After second slab, skirt brush to right then ascend snow slope (creek latter) to the right of the brush band. That brush band, the one coming from the second slab, points up to some easy slabs and and easy way onto the Goode glacier. Also, in the slabs above the brush is a good 4 person bivi site (~5600 ft.) Ascend up from camp onto the glacier then traverse right (NW) to base of buttress. Gain rock as high as snow permits then climb 2 pitches of 5th class to easier heather benches. Most aesthetic climbing is on the buttress crest. Down low this is 4th class. Half way up the buttress becomes less distinct, steeper, and harder. Above that the buttress again has a distinct crest and the climbing is hard 4th to easy 5th. And above that the climbing becomes progressively easier till you top out at a good bivi site 200 ft below summit. This should be level with the Black Tooth notch. Drop packs and climb to summit. Traverse to notch and do 3 single rope rappels into gully. Descend gully for several hundred feet. Where gully ends in cliffs go left and down easy but loose slopes. Descend into basin below gully. Good descent into Park Creek is reported to be down ridge that runs at 240 deg from summit. Also looks possible to traverse the W side of Goode ridge to pick up the Goode ridge trail. We, however, traversed at 7400 ft to the Goode-Storm King Col. From there single rope rap gains glacier head wall. Descend 40deg snow to bergschrund. We crossed on good snow bridge. Latter season may be problematic. May need picket for rappel. May be able to set rap anchor on rock face to left or right but this may require double ropes. Lower down on the glacier is an 50deg ice cliff. We crossed this on a snow band. Latter season this will be pure ice and some ice screws may be desirable. Cars to base camp: 10 hours camp to summit: 9.5 hours (5:30am start, 3pm on summit) summit to camp: 6 hours (9pm in camp) [Route description written by Tom Unger]