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| Flanders | Lots of Ladybugs  Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2011 | |
| Fun "scramble" to the top after over-shooting the initial ridge up. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2011 10:05 am | ||
| Brian Jenkins | Cool Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2011 | |
| Climbed with Flanders. Slept in car at trailhead as no camp sites left at nearby campground. Went too far cross country and actually hiked past the summit pinnacle, but, seeing the cliffs of it, we were able to hike back and scramble up easily. Great views. Continued down ridge to Burger Butte. | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2011 2:32 am | ||
| Swithich | A little scramble. Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2010 | |
| Sunny and windy on top. Surprised not to find a register of any kind (or benchmark for that matter). Climbed via the ridge, but cut up the slope at the granite slide about a quarter-mile before the pass (we stayed between the granite slide and the small stream on the left). Stay left of the cliffs on the SE side, there is a class 3-4 scrambling route just to the left of the ridgeline. We followed this to the summit. First time in the Wallowas and I have to say, they don't disappoint. If you think the Cascades are amazing you'll love the Wallowas. | ||
| Posted Jul 14, 2010 12:19 pm | ||
| Troy B | Early Summer On China Cap Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2010 | |
| Walked up the south ridge from Burger Pass. Amazing early season view of the Wallowas. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2010 5:29 pm | ||
| nickkarl | Trail to ridge Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2008 | |
| Nice climb with a great view. Got to love the Eagle Cap's! | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2008 7:19 pm | ||
| idahomtnhigh | Back to China Cap Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2006 | |
| Every August we have our family Reuion in High Valley, just outside Union. This year my cousin want to do a little climbing. We got up early and headed for Buck Creek TH. Great trip, the views from the top were not the best because of fires in the area. Still had a lot of fun. DATES CLIMBED: 6/2/1995 West Ridge 8/5/2006 West Ridge | |
| Posted May 12, 2007 11:57 am | ||
| stolenj | Route Climbed: Trail to Scramble NW Ridge Date Climbed: June 1999 | |
| Mid-June climb, a pair in the party brought snowboards and after topping out in the early afternoon for lunch found a swath of snow on the northwest ridge where we dug a jumper and watched them carve up the slope. Easy hike with good weather and hiking conditions. | |
| Posted Dec 6, 2005 2:07 pm | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: BP Trail/ NW Ridge Date Climbed: September 12, 2004 | |
| An unplanned detour after not being able to complete our initial plan. Friday 5pm after work drove out to Sawtooths in ID and with the loss of 1h (zone change) got to TH at 5am (that last 5 miles of unmaintained FS road DO take about 45 minutes). Slept till 8am and started our approach hike to Finger of Fate at 8:30am. Got to base at 11:45am only to find a party gearing up. It took them until 1:30 for both to get up the (rel. easy) P1. We started behind them but bailed at about 3pm as the 2nd was still working on P2.....it's a 7 or 8 pitch route with crux at the top = no chance of making it in daylight...........no summit. Hit the wallowas on the drive back on Sunday . Kind of pissed with ourselves (should've not slept at TH at all) about missing what was possibly the last opportunity of the season to nail an alpine route. Oh well, next year. China Cap was a 4h car-to-car hike at a very casual pace. Approach trail is kind of boring and initially ugly crossing much clearcuts.............what's the deal with leaving 3 mature trees per acre of clearcut forest.....is that the Bush forest fire prevention plan at work = "thinning" out the woods? "Anyone but Bush in '04" | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2004 5:23 pm | ||
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