John Muir Wilderness > Mount Abbot - Petit Griffon > Climber's LogMount Abbot - Petit Griffon Climber's Log
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| Deb | Awesome!  Date Climbed: May 18, 2013 | |
| Fantasticly hair-raising day with Patrick and Pat doing the NE couloir with soft snow, then the sketchy Class 3/4 loose mess. Descending the same way and it wasn't so scary... ? Glad to have finally tagged this baby via the couloir. | |
| Posted May 19, 2013 1:22 pm | ||
| jonclimbingon | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2012 | |
| Camped at Mills Lake. The low snow made crossing the moraine a real chore. The couloir was icy in sections but easily avoidable, rock fall was minimal. Weather was perfect, clear skies, calm breeze. Summited with Michael, both our first 13K. Awesome route. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2012 12:31 pm | ||
| Darren9 | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Mar 3, 2012 | |
| Great moderate route done in winter, provided fun snow climbing, mixed scrambling and some great exposure and amazing views. | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2012 10:05 pm | ||
| wfry | NE Couloir from Mills Date Climbed: Mar 3, 2012 | |
| We started our trek from Rocky creek sno-park. Hiked in four miles to Mosquito flat, then another two miles to base camp (Mills lake). Hit the trail at 5am the next morning and summited Abbot by 1pm. Great climb with some steep sections and good scrambling near the top. Looking forward to coming back some day to take a shot at the Abbot direct route or Mills. | |
| Posted Mar 7, 2012 12:21 am | ||
| MarekB | N couloir Date Climbed: Mar 3, 2012 | |
| Excellent climb with SMG | |
| Posted Mar 6, 2012 2:00 am | ||
| krrt2000 | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2011 | |
| Awesome! | |
| Posted Feb 16, 2012 11:50 pm | ||
| seano | North Couloir solo Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2011 | |
| Mostly snow and neve, with a spicy rock finish including a cool tunnel. There was a bit of fresh snow on the rock, so I climbed with my crampons on. Trip report | |
| Posted Feb 4, 2012 2:08 pm | ||
| router1998 | North Couloir from Mills Lake Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2011 | |
| We planned this climbing for our SW release name Mount Abbot. The weather is great after a week of storm weather. There are good snow coverage from lake. We started from Mosquito flat trail head at noon time and camped in Mills Lake. The campsite is pretty good. We started the hike at 7:00am. We tried to walk on left side of lake and tried to avoid the snow. It is a mistake. We have to walk down to snow bank and put the crampon on. The snow is soft under sunshine and I slipped once and self arrested. The scrambling part is ok in general. I lost the cairnes couple times and have to go back. After the exposure bridge area, the top part is easy. No wind and a beautiful day. back to trail head at 5:30pm and drove back to Bay area. | ||
| Posted Sep 21, 2011 2:06 am | ||
| bc44caesar | North Couloir Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2011 | |
| Climbed from Dade Lake. Traverse to Abbot was pretty straightforward, although there were a lot of annoying penitentes. Scrambling to the ridge was dirty and mostly cl. 2. The catwalk part is fun, then a short slog to the summit. Great views, decent route. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2011 12:36 pm | ||
| 96avs01 | NE Coulie Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2011 | |
| Great daytrip up the NE Couloir via Ruby Lake. Travel above Ruby Lake was on nearly 100% snow. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2011 11:45 am | ||
| Vitaliy M. | NE couloir/Petit Griffon Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2010 | |
| Fun outing with Chad. Did Abbot. Attempted PG winter Jan 28 2011, no success but will be back. Both trips via dayhikes July 3rd 2011 Petit Griffon with my friends Chad and Bryan. Awesome spire, awesome views, awesome weather, and awesome company. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2011 4:19 pm | ||
| SKI | Day Hike to Petit Griffin Date Climbed: Jan 28, 2011 | |
| Excellent outing and great snow/weather conditions with[http://www.summitpost.org/users/pellucidwombat/12893]Pellucid Wombat[/URL], [http://www.summitpost.org/users/shane-rathbun/59854]Wrathbum[/URL] and [http://www.summitpost.org/users/vitaliy-m/62684]Vitaliy Kalashnikov[/URL]. I froze atop the second belay station as the packs made getting through the crux a difficult and prolonged affair. Rapped from the station. My thanks to Shane and Mark for donating webbing and a rap ring to the cause. | |
| Posted Jan 31, 2011 10:22 am | ||
| mrchad9 | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2010 | |
| Up the standard route- very enjoyable. Snow was very solid crossing the couloir, but not ice yet. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2010 1:52 pm | ||
| ridgeline | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2010 | |
| Camped near Mills Lake night before, always hate that crap right off the couloir to the ridge. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2010 11:01 am | ||
| Daria | SC '09 Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Bill Peters and Adam as an alternate peak for the Sierra Challenge-great fun climb, we were front pointing in our crampons on our way up the glacier...in mid August...fun ridge traverse on the way to the summit. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2010 4:01 pm | ||
| boyblue | SW Chute | |
| September, 1982 from Lake Italy and Gabbot Pass. Steep and enjoyable. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2010 4:50 pm | ||
| Michael Graupe | NE Couloir Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2009 | |
| Easy dayhike for a bonus challenge peak. 2009 Sierra Challenge. Some Photos. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2009 8:09 pm | ||
| derbilly | Challenge day 5 Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009 | |
| Climbed with bechtt, darija and adamus. Nice, relatively short day. Nice climbing on the ridge. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2009 3:34 pm | ||
| bechtt | NE Coulior Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009 | |
| Great views -- 7.5 hours car-to-car | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2009 1:07 pm | ||
| rhyang | NE couloir Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2009 | |
| Dayhiked from Mosquito Flat TH. Couloir in good shape. Nice scrambling once I got onto the ridge, but the part coming up from the couloir was loose and sandy. The slog up to the top seemed to go on forever.. Beautiful day and great views of Dade, Mills, Bear Creek Spire's backside, and various other neighboring peaks. | |
| Posted Aug 3, 2009 3:07 am | ||
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