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| Daria | 2nd times a charm  Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2012 | |
| Dayhiked with Rick Kent. After previous bailout many years ago with Sean (bailout from thunderstorm). What a GREAT summit block, FUN and intimidating! | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2012 3:08 pm | ||
| seano | 4th time's the charm Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2012 | |
| Finally. Now that Dragon Pass is legal, the approach is much more reasonable. The summit move is intimidating, but not hard. Trip report. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2012 6:46 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | South Face Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2011 | |
| Climbed from Sixty Lakes Basin. The ledge you traverse to get to the saddle was pretty cool. I did not find a 4th class way up the face (too far to the left), so I jammed up a crack or two. The move from the lower block to the summit is intimidating, but easy enough once you commit to the flop! Downclimbing I found the chimney, but did not go down the jam crack Secor mentions (it's more of a corner really). I stayed on the ridge proper, downclimbing an exposed fist/offwidth crack which looked reasonable from above. The route photo posted here (w/ a yellow line) shows the best route and keeps difficulties at 4th class up until the summit I think. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2011 8:16 pm | ||
| Vitaliy M. | South face Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2011 | |
| Very original summit block.Got this guy on a 2 day trip through Onion valley. Got Mt. Gardiner too. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2011 3:07 pm | ||
| mrchad9 | South Face Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2011 | |
| Up from Sixty Lakes Basin, nice climb up to the south face with Vitaliy M. and Max. Enjoyed the moves onto the south summit block and the final jump to the top was exhilarating. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2011 2:46 am | ||
| sierratrekkin | South Face... Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2010 | |
| Climbed Mount Clarence King along with Mount Cotter on a five day trip into the Sixty Lakes Basin/Rae Lakes area, July, 2010... | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2010 7:44 pm | ||
| Romain | South Face Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2010 | |
| Great climb with most of the elevation gain achieved on snow (some painful postholing). The summit block is fun. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2010 3:48 am | ||
| granjero | South Face Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Awesome climb, super fun moves at the top! | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2010 9:06 pm | ||
| Desert Solitaire | Solo Kings Spur Traverse Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2009 | |
| Camped below at 60 Lakes and started the day on Clarence King. The summit blocks were fun and not scary at all. Sadly, there was no summit register on top, even after searching for 30 minutes around the whole vicinity of the summit. To avoid the 5.4 jam crack, there's also a cool bouldery face move to gain the South block that goes at 5.5 face. The exposure isn't extreme (about 10-15 ft), and its more fun than the crack. | |
| Posted Oct 2, 2009 11:34 am | ||
| UteZ | Spectacular Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2009 | |
| Fun climb! The hike through Mosquito county was less exciting, but worth the while. Unfortunately my camera decided to stay at the top, below and over from the bottom of the rappel. Should you head up there, could you keep an eye out for it??? It's in a black soft sunglass pouch. And maybe sent the me the chip inside. I do care about the camera as well, as I now have to return to my ancient film camera. If you're even contemplating going up, stop hesitating. It's worth the trip!!! Cheers | ||
| Posted Jul 21, 2009 1:35 pm | ||
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| Desert Solitaire | Re: Spectacular | |
| Hi UteZ, Unfortunately, I didn't find your camera in the area. I cleaned out all the old slings on the rappel stations while downclimbing, but still no camera. Hope it turns up before the winter snows kick in! | |
| Posted Oct 2, 2009 11:35 am | ||
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| UteZ | Re: Spectacular | |
| Msg to raydoubleu: Unfortunately I have no e-mail to reply to directly but either way: Wow! Thank you so much for your e-mail. I wish it was mine as it had many family/riends pictures on it. (And our summit pic as well ;-) ) Unfortunately mine was a Canon. Hope you had a great trip up Mt Clarence King. | ||
| Posted Jul 23, 2012 1:00 am | ||
| kevin trieu | exciting! Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2008 | |
| technically not difficult but sure was exciting! The lack of a bolt on the top of the summit block probably deter a lot of folks from attempting it. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2008 3:19 pm | ||
| lefty | South Face Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2007 | |
| Part of an SCMA trip. We were only the third party of the year to summit. Great fun negotiating the summit block | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2007 9:24 pm | ||
| kovarpa | Northeast Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2006 | |
| FA with Misha over two days. Lot of fun. Secor's beta on East ridge is a major sandbag - at least the portion from the plateau to the summit. See Misha's NE ridge route page for more info. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2006 4:46 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2005 | |
| My second time up there, and I still have no idea where the class 4 route is up to the base of the summit block. Glad we brought the short rope this time. But dang, that summit block is cool! It's intimidating, but it turns out to be much easier than it looks--and actually easier to downclimb (both the final move, and the awkward 5.4 crack) than it is to ascend. Perfect views. Dayhike from Onion Valley. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2005 1:07 am | ||
| tdoughty | Route Climbed: south face | |
| interesting summit block. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2005 12:33 pm | ||
| GlennG | Route Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: September 25, 2005 | |
| A loooonnngg day with Matthew leaving Onion Valley at 2:15am and returning just before 9:30pm. We couldn't find the alleged class 4 route and ended up roping up for one move before the summit and then rapping down it later. The summit block was awesome, I personally like it better than Thunderblot or Starlight even though it isn't quite as impressive in terms of ascending it. Matthew didn't think my dismount/jump down from the summit block as fun as I did. | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2005 6:50 pm | ||
| RSN473 | Route Climbed: South face Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2004 | |
| Excellent climb. Gained new level of respect for Bolton Brown as we made the final move onto summit! | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2005 12:21 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: Sept 25, 2004 | |
| Was finally able on the second try to dayhike this Emblem Peak from Onion Valley. Four of us started out in the wee hours of the morning, not returning until after dark. What you might consider a very full day. Trip Report | |
| Posted Oct 19, 2004 2:15 pm | ||
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