Cathedral Peak Climber's Log

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Bob Burd

Bob Burd - Sep 23, 2002 11:54 am

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2002  Sucess!

Soloed with Michael and Dave. No flailing this time - I guess I learned something after the two previous times this summer. 2hr from TH to summit. Trip Report

Craig Peer

Craig Peer - Sep 23, 2002 9:58 am

Route Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: 1976  Sucess!

The SE Buttress being too crowded, I climbed the South face route with a friend. Short and easy.

Romain

Romain - Sep 23, 2002 12:45 am

Route Climbed: Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: September 20, 2002  Sucess!

Nice hike with Sven Feldmann - on a Friday afternoon, we met only one other party that had just ascended the Southeast Buttress. We hiked in via Budd Creek, and out via the JMT. The latter is definitely longer, but the sunset over Fairview Dome was worth the slight detour.

Joe Hanssen

Joe Hanssen - Aug 28, 2002 8:30 am

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: August 18 '02  Sucess!

This is a magnificent climb, but I will never again do it on the weekend. By the time we got to the chimney pitch, there were a half dozen teams above and below. Once I finally was able to climb through the chimney there were four belay stations set up above it. The climb took three times longer then it should have, although there were many interesting people to talk to. Snwburd and another guy solod the route.

2002 Sierra Mountaineers Challenge

tiogap

tiogap - Aug 21, 2002 9:36 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: August 17, 1996  Sucess!

this is a great climb. the only peak I will climb over and over again.

kletterwebbi

kletterwebbi - Aug 21, 2002 4:43 am

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: September 1996  Sucess!

A wonderful climb, best conditions, no cloud at all, not many people. Couldn't be better !

Bob Burd

Bob Burd - Aug 18, 2002 8:34 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2002  Sucess!

Day 2 of the 2002 Mountaineers Challenge. Soloed for the second time, got off-route, flailed at the crux, same story. Lots of folks on the route. Two parties waiting on the ground, I passed a rope of two, and met two others soloing on the route (one was coming down!). Still took me an hour. I'm slow. Trip Report.

Romain

Romain - Aug 15, 2002 11:35 pm

Route Climbed: Southeast Buttress Date Climbed: August 15, 2002

Easy but very nice climb. I particularly enjoyed the last pitch and the summit block - outstanding views. Trip report

Bill Ott

Bill Ott - Jun 28, 2002 5:16 pm

Route Climbed: S.E. Buttress Date Climbed: Aug, 2000  Sucess!

Third time up, and actually enjoyed all the traffic on the way up. All the teams were conversing and calling each other by first names. We had lines crossing from every which-a-way. Half way up the route, though, we could see cumulo-nimbus clouds forming over Mt. Dana. You should have seen us all scramble like ants when the thunder started rolling across the meadow .

Bob Burd

Bob Burd - Jun 25, 2002 9:27 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: June 13, 2002  Sucess!

Had the route to myself on a Thursday morning, and my first free solo of a class 5 route. Much fun.

Trip Report

Josh

Josh - Jun 25, 2002 4:10 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: June 23, 2002  Sucess!

Cathedral Peak was summit #15 of my Cathedral Range traverse (8:21 car-to-car). Every time I climb the SE Buttress, I take a slightly different route. After bagging Cathedral, I tagged Eichorn Pinnacle then jogged back to the parking lot.

jeffn - Apr 3, 2002 7:49 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: Multiple  Sucess!

Never have done the 5.6 chimney due to crowds. A beautiful day no matter how many people.

darinchadwick

darinchadwick - Mar 30, 2002 7:01 am

Route Climbed: SW Buttress Date Climbed: August 1999, September 2005  Sucess!

Such a fun route, and such a pointy summit. This peak opened our eyes to the alpine rock possiblities surrounding us......Conness and Matthes Crest beckoned......

6 years later we climbed it again, taking some friends with us who had never climbed in Toulumne before. It was with some satisfaction that we pointed out the surrounding peaks and domes we had climbed in the intervening years. Even more satisfying was to witness our progress as climbers. The climb seemed so much shorter, simpler, and faster than our first time.

Dave Daly

Dave Daly - Feb 10, 2002 2:38 pm

Route Climbed: Southeast Buttress Date Climbed: Oct 1 2001  Sucess!

Like Brandon said, the 5.7 variation left of the chimney is fun. Try the face between the crack and chimney. Be solid on 5.9.....no pro!......just rounded chickenheads. When I summited, there was a party of three scattering ashes of a friend upon the summit block. Now that's what I call 'soul coughing'!!

Nandini - Dec 24, 2001 11:29 am

Route Climbed: SE Butress Date Climbed: July 2000  Sucess!

Exciting route for the begginer. It was quite memorable, my first climb ever with B$. I was given a crash course on how to climb, insane. Challenging scramblling on the way down. Can't wait to do it again!

ron - Oct 8, 2001 8:34 pm

Route Climbed: southeast buttress Date Climbed: multiple dates  Sucess!

this is a great route, do it early in the morning and try to be first of the route, much more enjoyable. For a change of pace avoid the crowds and just move a couple hundred feet to the left of the main crowd and find just as fun and easy of a route and there will be no one around the entire route. Just have to traverse back right on the summit ridge to get to the true summit.

John

John - Oct 7, 2001 9:26 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: October 6, 2001  Sucess!

Nice climb with Josh - quick and fun. My Five Ten Spire's were excellent on the ascent but painful on the way down (Mountaineers Route). Rock shoes are not meant for hiking ;-) Easily one of my favorite climbs to date. We went very early so didn't really run into any other climbers en route to the summit. After we came down to the base of the climb, there were others still getting started on the first pitch.

Josh

Josh - Oct 6, 2001 10:09 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: October 6, 2001  Sucess!

Climbed with John. Nice day.

brandon

brandon - Sep 18, 2001 4:01 pm

Route Climbed: SE Butt + variations Date Climbed: Many times....  Sucess!

Have climbed this one a ton of times. Is busy but there are umpteen thousand variations all over the face that are never harder than 5.7. BTW, kinda sketchy pro on the start of the 5.7 variation by the chimney, but very good climbing if you are comfortable at the grade (that's my favorite description that in a lot of climbing areas means big air potential..ie. Figures on a Landscpae at jTree.

Josh

Josh - Aug 29, 2001 8:42 pm

Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: August 29, 2001  Sucess!

Just got back from a day of climbing in Yosemite.



Ryle and I started at the Cathedral lakes trailhead at 8:37. My plan was to attempt to bag most of the peaks in the Cathedral Range: Cathedral, Eichorn, all 9 echo peaks, Echo Ridge, Matthes Crest, Cockscomb, and Unicorn. Ryle was going to meet me at a couple select peaks and climb them with me.



I jogged up to the trail to the base of the SE buttress, changed into my climbing shoes, and free-soloed to the summit. I reached the summit almost exactly one hour after I left my car. The climbing took 20 minutes.



I then traversed over to Eichorn Pinnacle and free-soloed up the 5.4 North Face. I then down-climbed the North Face back to the saddle, and finally down-climbed to the ground via the south face (not the "South Face Route," but some horrible line to the left/west of it....lots of loose rock, but never harder than 5.easy).



From there, I headed over to the Echo Peaks and bagged the first 8. The plan was for Ryle to meet me at Echo Peak #9. I got there at 11:50 and waited for more than an hour and a half, but Ryle never showed up. After lying in the sun for 90 minutes, I lost all motivation and headed back to the car where I waited another two hours for Ryle. Somehow he had gotten lost. Not exactly the day I had planned, but it was fun anyway.

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