California National Forest Highpoints > Dunderberg Peak > Climber's Log
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| pjgordon | SE Ridge Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2007 | |
| No snow, nothing but loose scree. A large boulder rocked and rolled across one of my friends knee, so we turned back for some other peaks. Will try again in the winter. | |
| Posted Oct 17, 2007 5:45 pm | ||
| Michael Graupe | Traverse from Excelsior  Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2007 | |
| Warm-up hike for the 2007 Sierra Challenge. Traversed the ridge from Excelsior and got chased off the summit by thunderstorms. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2007 8:42 pm | ||
| Adamus | Southwest Slope Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Decent scramble. Solid. Straight up ridge from TH. 1:15 up. | ||
| Posted Jul 21, 2007 4:37 am | ||
| JasonH | Route Climbed: SW Slopes Date Climbed: Apr 29, 2007 | |
| The whole south face was melted out. A combination of late start, not enough time, and no snow made us turn around at 10 am. The climb was a slog up talus and scree. We wanted to stick to the ridge but the rock was loose so the hand holds were really sketchy. I will try this mountain again but only if there is snow. | |
| Posted May 13, 2007 10:29 pm | ||
| mlarkin2002 | Dayhike from Virginia Lakes Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2005 | |
| Dayhiked to summit. Ascent (around ~2.5h if I recall) was steep, but on fairly solid rock. Descent was via a scree chute (10-15m) was much more fun than the ascent. | ||
| Posted Oct 10, 2006 2:21 am | ||
| jonhersh | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2006 | |
| Tried to avoid the loose stuff on the slopes by sticking to the ridge. However, seemed like some of the 3rd class rock wasn't real solid. Summit was windy, but the views were great. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2006 5:39 am | ||
| Desert Solitaire | Route Climbed: SW Slopes Date Climbed: September 25, 2005 | |
| I tried to think of something nice to say about this peak, but couldn't think of any. Pretty much a slog any way up or down. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2005 9:08 pm | ||
| uwjennie | Route Climbed: SW Slopes Date Climbed: Sept. 24, 2005 | |
| Pretty much a slog with some class 2-3. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2005 9:45 pm | ||
| derbilly | Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: July 17, 2005 | |
| An enjoyable scramble up the SE ridge to the view filled summit. Descended down scree slopes down to near Moat Lake triggering some minor rockslides along the way. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 3:08 pm | ||
| Matt Worster | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: 24 July 2005 | |
| Found the SE ridge as the others did. I descended the first chute I found toward Moat/Blue lakes. Mix of scree and talus made the fun/work ratio almost even. Up and down in 3 hours with 30 mins. at summit is nice for any Sierra peak. On top by 8:30 am, beautiful morning. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 10:04 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: Southwest Slopes (ascent) / Southeast Ridge (descent) Date Climbed: July 16, 2005 | |
| From Excelsior. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2005 12:31 pm | ||
| fedak | Route Climbed: West slope from Gilman Lake Date Climbed: 12-Jun-2004 | |
| The west slope is pretty much a long, evil, loose talus slog. Great weather, no skeeters, and outstanding views from the summit. Pics are here. | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2004 7:23 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: June 4, 2004 | |
| Climbed this Friday evening. The scrambling was better than I'd expected on this slag pile... but still not a classic climb. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2004 2:58 pm | ||
| birdhead | Route Climbed: SW Slopes Date Climbed: June 2002 | |
| A solo climb. Got a nice route description from the woman at the Virginia Lakes store. Slogged up the slopes above Moat lake. Lots of loose talus and scree. Moved on to the ridge for some more interesting climbing. Finally reached the summit. "Scree-skied" down some slopes on the south side back to the lakes. Met back up with Jason and admired his fish. | |
| Posted Feb 4, 2004 1:40 am | ||
| Dave Dinnell | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July 15, 1983 | |
| Highlight of a college roadtrip-lots of lucky lager, long soaks in the hotsprings near Bridgeport and good friends. The view from the summit was worth the effort! Someone wrote in the summit register, "Dreaming is for sleepers, I'm awake and this is reality." So true that day. | |
| Posted Jan 8, 2004 6:51 pm | ||
| mpbro | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: 17 August 2003 | |
| Heh-heh, I thought the SE Ridge was a pretty forgettable route myself. ;-) But Barry's route description was dead on. The scree is pretty bad all over the mountain, but if you stick to the class 3 scrambling, you can avoid much of it. That being said, summit views were FANtastic! We were blessed with a warm and relatively windless day. A pair of large birds of prey (falcons, golden eagles???) put on a high-speed acrobatics show around the summit. On the way up I saw a sweet-looking scree chute, so instead of following the spine of the ridge, we did a lot of tedious traversing on the descent, looking for the elusive chute. Eventually we did find it, and used it to descend the last thousand feet or so in less than twenty minutes. We met a use trail about halfway between Moat Lake and Blue Lake, and just followed it and later an official trail back to the parking lot. We drove in the night before and slept under the stars in the sagebrush. Mars and the Moon put on a great show. Started the climb at 7:15, took around 2 hours to ascend, spent an hour or so on the summit, and then took something like 1h30 to descend. We planned to climb Mount Dana later in the day, but after a tasty burger and shake in Lee Vining, we felt soft and instead took a swim in Tenaya Lake. Judging from the volume and looseness of the talus, I would guess that rockfall from the towers on the south slopes could be troublesome in spring. The mosquitoes followed us, but only up to 10,500' or so. Oddly, I would see them disperse when I'd kick a loose rock. There must have been some water on or near the surface. Perhaps some springs, or residual snowmelt? | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2003 10:58 am | ||
| steeleman | Route Climbed: South Couloir Date Climbed: May 2003 | |
| Unlike Bearbnz, it took me about ten hours from Virginia Lake to summit :-) Skied the south couloir back down. Three hours later, a huge avalanche swept the entire chute. That's why you get up early... | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2003 10:48 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: SE Ridge (ascent) / West Ridge (descent) Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2003 | |
| Great views from the summit. bearbnz is right on about the SE Ridge. It has pretty firm rock and some very fun class 3 if you look for it. The West Ridge is a forgetable route - I took it just because it was different. Warm up for the 2003 Sierra Challenge. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2003 10:30 pm | ||
| bearbnz | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July 23, 2003 | |
| 1:28 from the Virginia Lakes Trailhead to the summit, went after work on a thunderstormy day. No rain, no nearby thunder made for a successful ascent. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2003 12:24 am | ||
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