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| coloradoiceclimber | Route Climbed: SE Butress Date Climbed: September 2, 2002 Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2003 | |
| Really fun climb!! That is unless you were the pair of dunses that starteed up late and disregarded the storm that was brewing and ended up dumping on them while on route!! It was pretty cool to straddle the summit! I almost went flying while I was leading the pitch through the chimny when a rescue choper came out of nowhere at our same elevation and seemed as though it was 75 feet away!! Good times with by boy CD!! | |
| Posted Apr 11, 2004 10:13 am | ||
| rolkamon | Route Climbed: South East Butress Date Climbed: July 4, 03  | |
| Did this with Howard Sebold. Tooks the 5.7 line. Wonderful aestheic climb. Got spooked off the summit by building clouds. Got lapped on the descent by a soloist, Steve Seats. He climbinged the thing in 20 minutes compared to our 4 hours. | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2004 2:10 pm | ||
| birdhead | Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: August 2002 | |
| Left Chuck at the last notch before the class 4 section at the summit block. He was within shouting distance and begged me to come down. One of the best summits I've been on. Beautiful! | |
| Posted Feb 4, 2004 1:17 am | ||
| Sam Mills | Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: September 2003 | |
| This was peak 7 of a seven peak day with Bob Burd. We soloed this 5.6 route. Plenty of hand holds on great granite. | |
| Posted Jan 29, 2004 6:15 pm | ||
| Rob | Route Climbed: SE Butress Date Climbed: 1992 | |
| (solo ascent) Fun,Great view. | |
| Posted Jan 21, 2004 7:17 pm | ||
| mtnfoto | Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: 1977 | |
| I remember being the only party on the peak on a perfect summer Saturday.... | ||
| Posted Jan 20, 2004 5:59 pm | ||
| Dave Dinnell | Route Climbed: West Face ; SE Buttress Date Climbed: August 1986 ; July 1998 | |
| Incredible summit trip with approaching thunderstorm on '86 trip. The SE Buttress rt. was very enjoyable with old friends Hugh and Dan Sakols. | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2004 11:53 pm | ||
| danbknox | Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: Sept 20 2003 | |
| I was thinking of doing the SE face, but there were already 4 climbing teams starting when we arrived, so we went for the mountaineers route. We tried to climb the north face, without much luck. Instead we decended to climb the mountaineers route, a fine time for all. | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2003 4:05 am | ||
| Dave Daly | Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: Oct 19 2003 | |
| Arrived at the base of Cathedral @ 10:50 AM....only 4 parties above. Cranked up SE Butt. in 35 minutes. Had a 45-minute lunch on the summit with not a soul topping out. Gorgeous weather. Some gumby left two new ropes in between the saddle of Cathedral and Eichorn. Split one with Mike Shaffer (YMG), who was guiding a client. Guess that's the price you pay for being in a hurry (no reason to: weather was great, no reported accidents etc). Must have money to throw around....... | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2003 8:30 pm | ||
| jverschuyl | Route Climbed: SE butress Date Climbed: October 8, 1994 | |
| Beautiful day. The chimney is great. Fun climb. | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2003 1:02 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | A beautiful peak Date Climbed: Oct 18, 2003 | |
| Climbed this one a couple of times. The first time was back on Oct 18, '03 via the west face with Dave, Rich, and Mike... it's an awesome peak, although Eichorn Pinnacle steals the show on this approach. I immediately put that on my to-do list. Came back a few months later (Jun 18, '04) to climb the SE Buttress with Sam, probably just my second or third multi-pitch climb ever (he led everything)... there were four or five parties on the route even that day. Fun climb! We ran out of time for Eichorn Pinnacle. | |
| Posted Oct 20, 2003 12:48 pm | ||
| steeleman | Route Climbed: West Face Date Climbed: October 18, 2003 | |
| Climbed west face route with SP'ers David Kiene and Matthew Holliman. A fun scramble. We roped up for the last 15 foot bit to the summit. My first "roped climb". Perfect weather. Fall in Tuolumne is tough to beat. Pictures and trip report here  | |
| Posted Oct 20, 2003 12:47 pm | ||
| Dave K | Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: October 8, 2003 | |
| It sure beats a day at work! What a great route. The chimney, especially, was a lot of fun. The view of the moonrise over Unicorn from the summit at sunset is unforgettable. | |
| Posted Oct 9, 2003 10:39 am | ||
| Misha | Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: September 28, 2003 | |
| Etsuko and I had a nice "alpine start" at 11:15am from the Cathedral Lakes trailhead. We headed up the Budd Creek trail w/o any route topo hoping for a fun adventure. After watching a traffic jam on the SE Buttress route, we tried to solo the NE face but got on the terrain that we did not feel like climbing (and especially downclimbing) w/o any gear. Hence, we walked around the peak towards Mountaineers Route and solo'ed it instead. Fun route, especially if you stay ~100' to the left of the notch between Cathedral & Eichorn (if you are looking at them from the North) and try some Class 4 face climbing!! On/near the summit block we've met two SP-ers: Barry Beck and Bob Pickering. They both climbed the SE Buttress route and were not in the same group! Beautiful day and incredible peak! We'll be back to finish this NE face soon... | |
| Posted Sep 29, 2003 3:05 am | ||
| gordonye | Route Climbed: Mountaineer's Date Climbed: September 22, 2003 | |
| Reached the saddle between summit and Eichorn. My buddy Vladimir free-soloed the summit. Attempted to head down west face but went off route so we had to backtrack and came down the east side via Budd Creek. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2003 1:24 pm | ||
| Rinat Shagisultanov | Route Climbed: SE Butress, 5.6 Date Climbed: August 30, 2004 | |
| Climbed the spectacular peak with my wife Elena in 6 pitches of sustained 5.6 class (except for the first pitch). Had some traffic problems, but it was less than I expected to have on Labor Day weekend (there were ~8 parties during the day on multiple variations). We climbed the classic 5.6 route (route A on the Supertopo's topo of this peak). This was first real technical N-pitch climbing as a leader and I would not have wished a better one This was my first trip to Yosemite too and I LOVED THIS PLACE with all my heart. Having the batteries in my camra failing, I do not have other choice as to come back an climb this peak again and again !!! :-)) It is really worth 8 hours of driving from San Diego. P.S. The Supertopo's topo of this route (www.supertopo.com) is really great and I have no affilations with this publisher. | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2003 10:28 pm | ||
| keema | Route Climbed: Up West Face, Down Mountaineers Date Climbed: August 10, 2003 | |
| Went to Yosemite hoping to meet up with Brian Jenkins. Alas we did cross paths so I headed up the Cathedral Lakes Trail and up the Weat Face of Catherdral Peak. Saw several people head down the east side toward Bud Creek so I decided to head down that route. The trip turned out to be just like Bob's map. Great fun day. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2003 12:05 pm | ||
| Sharon | Route Climbed: Southeast Buttress Date Climbed: September 15, 1993 | |
| II, 5.5 Partner: Steve Reynolds 5 pitches of incredible granite -- knobs, flakes, cracks & chimney. Resembles Serpentine Arete on Dragontail Peak (Cascades, WA state). Perfect weather. This remains one of my favorite all-time climbs. | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2003 9:11 pm | ||
| Dave K | Route Climbed: West Face Date Climbed: June 7, 2003 | |
| My second time up this route. We spent much of the day hoping that lightning wouldn’t zap us. Lotsa’ fun! | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2003 10:59 pm | ||
| tiogap | Route Climbed: SE Buttress Date Climbed: August 16,1996 | |
| This is a great peak. The SE buttress is a great route. Hope to climb this peak as many times as possible. | |
| Posted May 22, 2003 2:17 pm | ||
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