MTfred19 - Sep 10, 2020 11:05 am Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2020
Dog Peak
My friends were there to climb Granite so we headed up to Sky Top Lakes and I saw them off up the southwest gully, then turned around and headed for an alternate peak to climb, since I had my dog with me on this trip. Headed up some loose stuff to the little saddle on the north ridge of Cairn Mountain and on up to the summit. Pretty darn nice. My friends made their summit on Granite and had the route to themselves. On the way out 2 days later we must have passed 50 climbers heading for the peak and we started to wonder if this may cause some problems...... and then we checked the news the day after we got home......
rvancleave - Sep 8, 2020 6:10 am Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2020
West Slopes
Base camped at Upper Aero Lake. Climbed up and over the pass down into the Skytop Drainage and then up the west slopes of Cairn.
larch32 - Jul 21, 2020 8:41 am Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2020
SE ridge/gully up, SW gully down
Highlight was 4th class scrambling between the N and S plateaus. Lowlight was the scramble down a gully on the SW ridge - steep and loose. Cool summit though!
VincePoore - Aug 9, 2018 7:30 pm Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2018
West Face
West face gulleys. It wasn't as bad as the south gully on Villard. No sliding backward and I managed not to send anything airborne.
Matt Lemke - Aug 12, 2014 2:33 pm Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2014
South Ridge
Hiked into camp at the north end of Upper Sky Top Lake and climbed the south ridge of Cairn Mountain. Fun, solid class 3 scramble. I descended a chute on the west face...bad idea!
MTfred19 - Sep 10, 2020 11:05 am Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2020
Dog PeakMy friends were there to climb Granite so we headed up to Sky Top Lakes and I saw them off up the southwest gully, then turned around and headed for an alternate peak to climb, since I had my dog with me on this trip. Headed up some loose stuff to the little saddle on the north ridge of Cairn Mountain and on up to the summit. Pretty darn nice. My friends made their summit on Granite and had the route to themselves. On the way out 2 days later we must have passed 50 climbers heading for the peak and we started to wonder if this may cause some problems...... and then we checked the news the day after we got home......
rvancleave - Sep 8, 2020 6:10 am Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2020
West SlopesBase camped at Upper Aero Lake. Climbed up and over the pass down into the Skytop Drainage and then up the west slopes of Cairn.
larch32 - Jul 21, 2020 8:41 am Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2020
SE ridge/gully up, SW gully downHighlight was 4th class scrambling between the N and S plateaus. Lowlight was the scramble down a gully on the SW ridge - steep and loose. Cool summit though!
VincePoore - Aug 9, 2018 7:30 pm Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2018
West FaceWest face gulleys. It wasn't as bad as the south gully on Villard. No sliding backward and I managed not to send anything airborne.
Matt Lemke - Aug 12, 2014 2:33 pm Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2014
South RidgeHiked into camp at the north end of Upper Sky Top Lake and climbed the south ridge of Cairn Mountain. Fun, solid class 3 scramble. I descended a chute on the west face...bad idea!