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| Timothy Pearl | North Slopes  Date Climbed: May 19, 2012 | |
| With Ben and Eric. Great snow climb on N Face to the ridge from Navajo Basin. Final pushes to the summit a bit sketchy with loose rock, ice, slush, mud and exposure. Usually find this terrain fun but have been out of the game mentally for some time now. Need to heed some prudence and rebuild some comfort before doing that again. | |
| Posted May 21, 2012 1:16 am | ||
| LadyWawa | Challenging! Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2011 | |
| Went up the north route from Navajo Lake. Not enough snow for me to feel comfortable to the summit! Rematch next summer I hope! | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2011 9:03 am | ||
| Ken Dammen | North Slopes from Navajo Lake Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2011 | |
| Climbed the North Slopes route with Dustin Kelley and Matt Jamison. We then did the traverse to Wilson. Tough Day. 2 nights at Navajo Lake. | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2011 7:10 pm | ||
| xpda | El Diente Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2010 | |
| Solo, Kilpacker trailhead. | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2011 12:51 pm | ||
| apachedino | Traverse from Woods Lake Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2011 | |
| Long day with my brother, probably would have thrown in the other Wilson if I was solo, but it was great to show the bro some mountaineering. Great kick off to 8 14ers in 5 days. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2011 12:14 am | ||
| Ted Eliason | Came back for this one Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2010 | |
| Stormed off the traverse from Wilson a year before. The camping in Kilpacker below the waterfall was worth the return visit. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2011 7:51 pm | ||
| Jeremy Hakes | Rough! Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2005 | |
| Good snow climb! | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2011 12:00 pm | ||
| belexes | Kilpacker Basin Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011 | |
| I climbed El Diente with Facebook friend Frank. It was his final 14er. We hiked in the day before and camped below the lower falls. We started around 5:30, summited at 9, and got back to camp around 12:30. The weather was good, though the clouds began to build as we got down from the top. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2011 1:42 pm | ||
| zoomloco | traverse | |
| blanca and bells traverses are better but this one is still good. only heinous part was the scree in the couloir up to diente. a big earlier it he season would have nice snow the whole way (climbied in aug). Tr at http://zoomloco.xanga.com/732717261/purple-mountain-majesties/ | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2011 4:52 pm | ||
| SarahThompson | Summer, winter on 2nd attempt Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2006 | |
| 8/27/06 - Climbed the nasty north slopes from camp in Navajo Basin and then traversed to Mount Wilson. 2/13/11 - Attempt from camp in Kilpacker Basin. Explored an unknown line up the southwest face. Simulclimbed the entire face, placing pieces in poor rock to try to protect against possible avalanches (recent snow but no signs of instability). Quite the exhausting wallow. Reached the west ridge 0.14 miles west of the summit only to find we had not passed all of its difficulties. Due to time constraints we had to turn around at 13,900 ft. 1/15/11 - Looong winter daytrip from east end of the (closed) Dunton Road. Climbed something resembling the normal south slopes route but finished directly on the summit ridge to avoid dropping down onto the north slopes near the end. Ridge was spicy but fun in crampons. | |
| Posted Feb 16, 2011 11:44 am | ||
| thatnissanguy | north slopes to traverse Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2010 | |
| North Slopes miserable in Summer! Not suggested! However, highly suggested as a snow climb. Traverse was awesome. | |
| Posted Dec 18, 2010 8:25 pm | ||
| Scott | El Diente | |
| July 2001 as part of Wilson-El Diente Ridge. | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2010 7:10 pm | ||
| Liba Kopeckova | Up the north slopes, down the south slopes Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2010 | |
| This was an interesting climb. Got fresh snow on the north side, making it an ice/snow climb, the final approach to its tiny peak was completely covered in the snow, so I climbed on the top of the ridge, making it more exposed. Descended down via south slopes - dry rock, but more exposed, lot of loose stuff. Fun day. Start and end at Navajo trailhead. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2010 12:29 am | ||
| triyoda | Saw Some Lightning Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2010 | |
| Had to hide out in an old mining shanty below the rock of Ages saddle when we got in some hail on the way down. | |
| Posted Sep 20, 2010 8:42 pm | ||
| strudolyubov | South Slopes Route from Kilpacker Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010 | |
| Climbed El Diente via South Slopes Route from Kilpacker TH, traversed to Mount Wilson and returned via Navajo Lake and Kilpacker Trails. 12 hours car-to-car. Nice scrambling, beautiful weather, great views. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2010 12:41 pm | ||
| noahs213 | Killpacker with traverse and down Navajo Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2010 | |
| great day out | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2010 1:00 pm | ||
| theREALCarpeDM | worst day of my life... Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2010 | |
| ...but at least I'm still alive. Brad Snider's North Buttress route was fun (except for the slabs - which I thought were much more difficult that advertised). The traverse turned tragic when the mountain crumbled under the foot of a climber in our group and took a life. This was NOT loose, free-standing rock being kicked around; this was a large piece of the mountain breaking off. Be very careful! | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2010 12:56 am | ||
| myrone | Via Kilpacker Basin Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2010 | |
| Started up from Kilpacker TH at 4:00AM under starry skies. Missed the turn in the dark for Kilpacker Basin and had to backtrack about 150 yds. Reached this tiny, empty summit at 10:25AM had some high winds early but otherwise perfect conditions. Started back down at 10:50AM and back to the TH at 3:00PM, great weather all day. My 49th 14'er and first summit of 2010.........sweet!! | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2010 10:47 am | ||
| noahs213 | North Buttress Date Climbed: Sep 27, 2009 | |
| Perfect Weather. With snow on this route it makes it class 4/5 with mixed climbing thrown in along with a little ice climbing. I found it a bit hairy with all that thrown in. Would recomend rope and technical gear if doing it in fall, winter, spring. Descended via the Killpacker Basin. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2009 10:50 pm | ||
| seano | North buttress / ridge Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2009 | |
| Beautiful weather, but enough snow to make this really class 4. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2009 11:40 pm | ||
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