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| thexcat | North Slope  Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2013 | |
| With LB and BD from Horton Lakes TH. To avoid snow, we ended up choosing a route that took us to the ridge southwest of the summit. ~30 more minutes and class 2 terrain to get to summit. Lots of postholing on the descent due to warm temps. Brought ax and crampons, but would have been better served with snowshoes. | |
| Posted May 7, 2013 3:52 pm | ||
| mengbo | a day hike in potholes snow Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2013 | |
| Hiked with Lisa and Xavier, we took the Horton Lake 2nd class route. | |
| Posted Apr 29, 2013 12:21 am | ||
| calipidder | From Horton Lakes Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2012 | |
| After suffering a stress fracture in my foot earlier this summer, I had to cancel all of my sierra trips through July and August. I was finally healed enough to hike and climb by Labor Day weekend so we headed in to Horton Lakes for the Basin and Tom double. So, so happy to be back in the mountains again. Loved the climb and the views. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2012 4:28 pm | ||
| sardude | Did it. Date Climbed: Apr 6, 2006 | |
| Dave G. & I soloed the east couloir. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2012 12:55 am | ||
| dshoshone | East Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2011 | |
| Nice climb | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2011 11:37 am | ||
| bc44caesar | East Couloir Date Climbed: Apr 22, 2011 | |
| Hiked 15 min from road closure to snow. Skinned the rest of the way to the col. The upper 1000' was beat up and had lots of debris. Below that was ~4000' of great corn skiing. | |
| Posted Apr 25, 2011 10:20 pm | ||
| mrchad9 | North Slopes Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2010 | |
| In via my favorite valley to Horton Lake, from there perfect amount of snow and rock made for a straightforward ascent, and a speedy decent. Only need crampons for the steep gully at 11,300 ft. Great views all around. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2010 1:39 pm | ||
| WML | East couloir skiing Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2010 | |
| Dropped the lower zone of the east couloir...perfect snow and hot weather! | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2010 2:31 am | ||
| mhengst | Climbed from Horton Lakes Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009 | |
| Left my group and climbed this solo after hiking in to Horton. Left camp on the far side of of the lake at 2 pm and made it back around 7 pm just as it was getting too dark to see. I climbed up the little waterfall right below the lower small lake / puddle but that didn't seem to save much. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2009 5:19 pm | ||
| boyblue | Northwest Slope Date Climbed: May 25, 1986 | |
| Most of this route above Horton Lake was completely snowbound at this time. The upper 1000 feet was frozen hard wind-swept ice. Glad I had my crampons with me. Saved a lot of time. The weather and the view were incredible. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:21 pm | ||
| ChuckO | East Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009 | |
| Great climb with Ken T. Overnight camp at the mine and good weather made for a leasurely wake-up time. Cool temperatures had the snow in excellent condition for both ascent and descent. Wanted to look for PeeWee Croft's paw-print in the summit register, but couldn't find it (the register), maybe buried under snow in a pocket/crack. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2009 6:47 pm | ||
| PrestonRhea | Northwest Slope Date Climbed: May 17, 2008 | |
| Fun climb, still a lot of snow pack there when I climbed it. Finally got to the top and then came down the east chute bypassing the class 4 sections by going down a chute on the south side to traverse to the east chute. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2008 6:05 pm | ||
| hikinedd | From Horton Lakes Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2004 | |
| With Patty Rambert. | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2008 5:57 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | East Couloir Date Climbed: Mar 22, 2008 | |
| Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2008 12:45 am | ||
| fossana | SC Day 4 Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2004 | |
| Day 4 of the 2004 Sierra Challenge. Climbed some with random chute with Joe D. Rescued fellow SCer on the descent. | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2007 12:53 am | ||
| mlarkin2002 | Dayhike via N. Slopes from Horton TH Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2004 | |
| Part of '04 Sierra Challenge. Nice climb featuring two interesting events; 1 stranded climber, and 1 impressive mountain lion near Horton Lakes. The climber was able to exit on his own with help from another in our group. The mountain lion.. well, I didn't stay around to see what it did after it chased some deer into a box canyon. I went the other way (quickly). | ||
| Posted Oct 10, 2006 2:03 am | ||
| mthilgard13 | Winter 03 Climb Date Climbed: Jan 12, 2003 | |
| Made it to the top of the Noth Couloir, but simply ran out of time in the day. Is an easy day climb in a dry winter if you leave extra early. Awesome climb. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2006 10:26 pm | ||
| Diggler | Route Climbed: E Couloir variation Date Climbed: 16 July, 2005 | |
| Started at a late 10.42. The first time I'd been near 13k' in awhile, so it took me awhile to get going. Various threatening-looking clouds kept me second guessing my decision to continue as well, until I stashed my hiking poles & crampons at a notch between the main peak & a minor buttress. Decided to start here instead of continuing up the steep garbage chute. Went up the face from aforementioned notch (to the R of a prominent dihedral on the main face), somehow reasoning that I'd eventually meet up w/ the standard route. I didn't, & spent a lot of time route-finding. Sort of zig-zagged up the face on rock from good to crumbly shit. Mostly sustained 4th class, with a few places of 5.2. Heard thunder as I neared the summit, making me quite anxious. Summited to discover that there was a storm over the Owens Valley. Enjoyed the views with a Sierra Nevada Summerfest & a smoke, before going down the standard 4th class route to the notch (rock quality definitely much better here). Incredible views of Humphreys & Tom, & even a good gander over to the Palisades! Wonderful peak. Had a monster standing glissade down, albeit with a swarm of mosquitoes that I couldn't seem to escape. Glissaded all the way down to the bottom of the snow line (maybe a few hundred ft above the mineshaft). Could definitely see coming back to snowboard down! Great day in a beautiful part of the Sierra. | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2005 5:11 pm | ||
| Samantha | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: July 10, 2005 | |
| Gained the summit on a gorgeous day. Had to downclimb the rock section for lack of anything we could rap off w/ confidence. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2005 10:51 am | ||
| forjan | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: June 12, 2005 | |
| Climbed with Al Kwok and socalmtneer. We started early at about 2:30AM from the locked gate and so we had great cramponing on hard snow pretty much all the way to the top of the notch. I climbed the rock section up & down in 45 minutes. Spent 10 minutes on the summit perusing through the summit register and couldn't find Peter Croft's entries (guess I didn't look hard enough). Had a fun glissade down almost to the mineshaft area. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2005 3:59 pm | ||
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