Chair Peak Climber's Log
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| Tom Fralich | North Face  Date Climbed: Feb 11, 2006 | |
| Climbed the route with my brother, who just moved to Seattle, as his first alpine route. We left the parking lot at around 6:30AM and found a well packed trail all the way to the NE ridge. The wind was blowing pretty hard on the ridge, but once we were on the route, things settled down a bit. After some delays getting started due to a slower party, we climbed the face in 4 long pitches. Conditions were OK, but there wasn't much ice and the snow wasn't as consolidated as I hoped. We reached the summit at around 1PM and had an easy time with the descent. We were back in the parking lot at around 4PM. Very nice climb. I was happy to get such a nice peak in just a 4-day visit to WA. | |
| Posted Feb 13, 2006 5:30 am | ||
| etsnyd | Route Climbed: NE Buttress Date Climbed: Aug 5, 1984 | |
| An amazingly alpine climb considering how close one is to I-90 and Seattle, and how low the peak is. There was a considerable amount of snow in the basin beneath the NE Buttress, even in August of a normal snowfall year. I'll never forget how loose the rock is, though, and how a boulder came crashing down our rappel route right after we just got out of the way. A very dangerous peak! | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2006 10:45 pm | ||
| Moni | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: Aug 1 1992 | |
| With Fred. The descent is a pain. | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2003 8:32 am | ||
| Fred Spicker | Route Climbed: E Face Date Climbed: 1 Aug 1992 | |
| Climbed with Monica Spicker. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2002 4:56 pm | ||
| Josh | Route Climbed: Something on the southeast side? Date Climbed: June, 2001 | |
| Ryle and I parked at the Alpental Ski Resort and started hiking. In classic Josh and Ryle style, we didn't really know where we were going or what we were going to climb. Hell, we didn't even have a map. We started hiking and figured we'd find something interesting to go up. Ryle was in his jeans, and I was in shorts and running shoes. About a mile in we started postholing. We followed some footprints up through the snow, scrambled up through some super steep dirt/bushes and eventually found ourselves at the base of what I think was Chair Peak. There was what appeared to be a few pitches of easy to moderate Class 5 rock, on the southeast side, so we scampered up that. The line we took came it at 5.easy with a few moves up to 5.6. A couple ancient-looking pins assured us that at least somebody else had been up this "route" before. Then we climbed some hideously loose (easy) rock up to the summit. I was yelling at Ryle most of the time because he was being a big pussy on the loose stuff. "Yeah, that piece of rock only weighs 30 lbs and is completely detached, but if you pull on it in the right way, it will hold." Anyway, we bagged the summit and headed back down. We found some anchors at the top of a steep, snowy chimney/gully and wound up doing two or three rappels to get down to easy terrain. If what I described doesn't resemble anything on Chair Peak, please let me know. I suppose it's possible that we were on something else. | |
| Posted Apr 10, 2002 5:26 pm | ||
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| Jerm | Re: Route Climbed: Something on the southeast side? Date Climbed: June, 2001 | |
| Kinda sounds more like the Tooth than Chair. | |
| Posted May 7, 2006 6:48 am | ||
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