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| ScottyP | Shoulda had skis  Date Climbed: May 16, 2009 | |
| Nice climb up. From the road did not look doable with skis. WE WERE WRONG! Great corn as we WALKED down! Next time.. | |
| Posted May 18, 2009 12:12 pm | ||
| SummitJunkie | Triple snow bag Date Climbed: Apr 7, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Basin and Andestite | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2009 6:14 am | ||
| snowflake | Central Chute Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2009 | |
| Left the skis at the bottom and booted up the chute. Good day - but too warm. The snow already turned to soup by 12:30. | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2009 10:46 pm | ||
| tooantsy | Three times and counting! Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2006 | |
| Reached the summit three times, twice during summer and once at winter in my snowshoes (absolutely love the scrambling towards the end). Can't wait to take our 1 1/2 year old son there again! | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2009 5:21 pm | ||
| justing | East side of summit block Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2009 | |
| Do I still get credit for a winter ascent if it was 40 degrees on the summit? Entertaining scramble while my partner watched from below. Despite the warm weather it was a fun couple of days of snowshoeing. | |
| Posted Jan 20, 2009 2:40 pm | ||
| Katy Y | twofer Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008 | |
| threefer, if you count frog's leap cliff (or whatever it's called). 10 hours car to car. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2008 11:03 pm | ||
| SummitJunkie | Great climb with family Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2008 | |
| Took my girlfriend and her family from Wisconsin up to the summit. Footing is VERY treacherous most of the way up, BE CAREFULL! Mom slipped about 100 feet from top and banged up her knee but made it down ok. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 4:05 pm | ||
| GlennG | Central Chute on South Face Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2008 | |
| Easy hike on Independence Day, came up the eastern ridge. Was a nice day with Glenn Baker, Captain in the Marine Corps. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2008 3:16 am | ||
| BCL | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: May 31, 2008 Date Climbed: May 31, 2008 | |
| x2. Quick stop while on the way to Basin. | |
| Posted Jun 3, 2008 2:06 am | ||
| kovarpa | Spring ski tour Date Climbed: Apr 12, 2008 | |
| Ski tour to Castle and then over to Andesite with V. Skipped the East Turret, didn't look that appealing in AT boots... | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2008 1:29 pm | ||
| requiem | West Turret Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2008 | |
| from Boreal to Andesite, then traversed the ridge to Castle Peak. gotta get me some snowshoes; those things smoke crampons... | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2008 2:04 am | ||
| littlefrantz | Ski tour Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2007 | |
| :) | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2008 11:30 pm | ||
| sacplanner | Snow or Ice? Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2007 | |
| After submitting Andesite to the west in 30-40+ mph winds, we went Castle Peak on the direct route (luckily the winds died down). No snow for a few weeks, temps dropping around zero, and high winds made for an icey trek. Crampons would've been nice, but the teeth on our snowshoes were sufficient. All and all another great summit of Castle Peak. | |
| Posted Dec 29, 2007 10:43 pm | ||
| 96avs01 | Quick day outing Date Climbed: Sep 30, 2007 | |
| Short daytrip to Castle and Basin Peaks. A little recon on the chutes between Castle and Basin, otherwise this was a revenge trip on Castle after a winter outing found us without certain gear for the icy conditions. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2007 2:55 am | ||
| edevart | Mini Loop - Descending the South Face. Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007 | |
| I thought I'd try to make a loop of it. Standard Route to Summit to SE Ridge to Warren Lake Trail back to the truck at the PCT Rest Area. The SE ridge is very loose and I couldn't find a way through without dropping low onto the south face of Castle. Decided it wasn't worth it to climb back up to reach the SE ridge again. Descended via the south face back to the PCT. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2007 11:56 pm | ||
| metasyn11 | Both sides Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2007 | |
| Climbed both east and west sides of the summit block because the rock was that great (beautiful holds and solid as a rock). The class 4 west side was much shorter, and barely felt like class 4. 3 hours round trip. | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2007 11:23 pm | ||
| bennovak | Class 3 side of summit block Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| Nice little walk with a scramble. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2007 7:10 pm | ||
| shaggyp | For the moment I was King Date Climbed: May 28, 2007 | |
| Hiked it with my unprepared but willing and stubborn enough to not quit girlfriend. Awesome day to hike, clear skies warm but not hot, no wind. Ended up climbing 3 of the major turrets before I got the right one and climbing the western face rather than the eastern of the true summit(my fault, I had read the reports on here already) signed the register, let that purely serene feel of completion sink in (which hadn't been signed in a week even though the mountain was swarming with people) and headed back out in a meandering and relaxing 5 hours. Still quite a bit of snow on the trail but easy to stay on track. | |
| Posted May 28, 2007 11:37 pm | ||
| hgrapid | Up the last 30 feet Date Climbed: May 26, 2007 | |
| It was a very nice day. Some snow still on the trail made the PCT hard to follow. However, I made it up and climbed the last 30 feet to the true summit. That took a lot of extra time. | |
| Posted May 26, 2007 7:34 pm | ||
| birdhead | Standard Date Climbed: May 6, 2007 | |
| Snowshoed up to the ridge with Don in really nice conditions and then headed over to climb the east turret. Great views. We could see all the way to Lassen and Shasta. | |
| Posted May 7, 2007 12:51 am | ||
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