Flagpole Peak Climber's Log
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| dkangas | Good and Local  Date Climbed: Jan 5, 2013 | |
| Led one pitch up the south headwall to the summit ridge, probably a 5.5 at the crux. | ||
| Posted Feb 8, 2013 3:51 pm | ||
| wfry | Cool Peak Date Climbed: Jan 5, 2013 | |
| This is a great peak with lots of options. Some good 3-5 class climbing. We climbed a short 5th class section, traversed across a short knife ridge, and worked our way to the summit. Good stuff and a super easy approach. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2013 5:15 pm | ||
| gordonye | Flagpole-Echo Traverse Date Climbed: Oct 28, 2012 | |
| Traversed Flagpole and Echo Peak with 3 ft of snow cover, with Pete T. and Matt S. The knife ridge on Flagpole is the spiciest. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2012 3:34 am | ||
| mtneering | fantastic Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2012 | |
| 3 and 4th class scrampbles to a sketch-a-lee protected 5.8 offwidth, fantastic day with kristin5berry, and a great way to top off 2 days climbing in S. Lake Tahoe. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2012 12:52 am | ||
| Kristin5berry | Fantastic day Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2012 | |
| Great day on this rock. Bush-whacked up slabs and 4th class rock (tons of it) to a 5'8 off-width with my guy! | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2012 9:04 pm | ||
| Kathryn | Flagpole Peak | |
| Climbed with JN, VS, TJ. Lotsa snow and neve, but summited and slid down on the descent. Easy and fun winter climb. | ||
| Posted Feb 5, 2012 2:59 am | ||
| Darren9 | Fun local peak Date Climbed: Oct 22, 2011 | |
| Close, fun scrambling with SMG, and we even set up a short top rope off the summit. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2011 8:56 am | ||
| fedak | From Echo Peak, Down SW ridge Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2011 | |
| Easy afternoon traverse over from Echo Peak. Still quite snowy up there but no skeeters yet. Pics and commentary are here. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2011 9:49 pm | ||
| Denjem | Who knew | |
| I have been in this area twice and climbed it twice. I just never knew it had a name or was it's own peak. | |
| Posted May 26, 2011 3:00 pm | ||
| Jonodo | From Echo Lake Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2009 | |
| Nice early morinig hike from Echo Lakes. I left the trail just after the dam at Echo Lake. Scrambling in the dark is harder than I thought. Very fun scrambling along the ridge. Continued on to Echo Peak. I ran into an old college friend on the way out. What a trip! | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2009 5:13 pm | ||
| ckerth | From Echo Lakes Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2009 | |
| Plenty of fun climbing, especially if you stay close to the ridge line the entire way. Continued on to Echo Peak after climbing Flagpole. There has to be at least 10 different formations along the way that offer class 3/4 climbing on good rock. Part way between the two I thought I saw a giant marmot dash behind a rock. I continued up a little ways further to find 3 baby coyote pups sitting around a tree hollow. I never did see the parents. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2009 2:02 pm | ||
| Adamus | Scramble from Echo Lakes TH Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2009 | |
| WEnt up real quick in hopes of a nice sunset. There wasn't one, but had a good time anyway. | ||
| Posted Jun 11, 2009 3:27 am | ||
| Kerstin | Fun scramble Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2007 | |
| Made in Tahoe and I walked along the Echo Lake trail and headed up at the cabin with the blue galvanized steel roof. The route got more fun the higher we went. I'll have to do this again sometime. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2007 2:35 pm | ||
| Wallylongridge | From Echo peak Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2006 | |
| From Echo peak you follow the ridge to Flagpole. the last 20ft. is ( class 3 ) up a short corner. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2006 2:55 am | ||
| BCL | South East Ridge Date Climbed: Mar 26, 2006 | |
| Lot of snow/ice on the rock making it a little more exciting. Saw avalanche activity on ralston and mount price. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 4:16 pm | ||
| jfrishmanIII | Many times | |
| I hiked this one a lot with my grandparents when I was growing up. Usually we'd traverse from Echo Peak, sometimes from the Echo Chalet. My favourite descent was down the loose gullies just west of the cliffs. Great place to be a kid! | |
| Posted Mar 24, 2006 4:19 am | ||
| Sierra Scrambler 30 | South East Ridge Date Climbed: Feb 11, 2006 | |
| Had a great day of climbing. There is still quite a bit of snow on the mountain. It was pretty icy in some areas. The views of Lake Tahoe and the surrounding peaks were amazing. | |
| Posted Feb 13, 2006 7:15 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: SE Ridge (ascent) / NW Ridge (descent) Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2004 | |
| Fun hike/scramble/bushwhack around Echo Lakes: Flagpole Pk-Echo Pk-Ralston Pk-Talking Mtn-Becker Pk. | |
| Posted Nov 18, 2004 9:23 pm | ||
| derbilly | Route Climbed: From Echo Peak and down Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: March 22, 2003 | |
| Snowshoed from Johnson Pass Rd to Echo Lakes and Echo Peak then down the ridge to Flagpile Peak. By the time I was at Flagpole, the day was spent, the weather was changing for the worse and the wind was nearly blowing me away. This led to a more challenging night time descent via the Southeast Ridge than I had expected. | |
| Posted Oct 17, 2004 6:23 pm | ||
| tahoeberne | Route Climbed: Echo Lake cross country scramble Date Climbed: sometime in the early 1980s | |
| A fun, quick rock scramble from Echo Lakes up the west slope. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2004 11:19 pm | ||
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