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| Diggler | fun  Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2013 | |
| Did the NW Arete; 2nd try, after an unsuccessful attempt maybe a week prior. This time, after camping at Little Yosemite Valley after (another) unsuccessful Half Dome NW face attempt, figured it would be good to do this, while having 5 less miles to hike than from the standard TH. Left LYV campground at 9.20. Summited 15.00ish. Incredible views, super fun climbing! Left summit at 15.30. In attempt to find shortcut on downclimb, found myself in sketch 5th class terrain. Obviously no misfortune, but super glad to just make it back to the arete proper & just downclimb the same way I came up. Back at the campground ~22.00. Long, interesting, & fun day! | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2013 1:43 pm | ||
| kevin trieu | weird year... | |
| climbed during the year when there were no snow in the high country late into winter and all the high lakes were perfect for ice skating. | |
| Posted Apr 30, 2013 2:40 pm | ||
| wfry | The Obelisk! SE Arete Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2012 | |
| Climbed this route with dkangas and three other climbers from SMG. Long approach (9.5 mi) from Mono Meadows TH then another (1.5 mi) on summit day. Good solid route with lots of interesting and exposed climbing. The highlight of the day was of course the step-across below the summit. Damn little for hand holds and a step that must be made with authority. James Gardiner best described this part of the route after he and Clarence King summited the peak in 1866. "It was, I think, duty's call that nerved us. That leap, like most dangers, seemed more perilous after it was made than before; it was not the length of the spring -- that was easy -- but to light in exact balance on a projecting rock that scarcely held half of one foot, while the remainder of the body hung over a precipice 1500 ft. deep, was a thing requiring most exact judgment." | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2012 5:51 pm | ||
| seano | Up NW, down SE Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2012 | |
| Climbed some harder-than-necessary variation of the NW ridge after a long, long slog over from Starr King. Down the SE ridge, which is definitely less cool than the NW. Trip report. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2012 8:39 pm | ||
| bechtt | Ascent via NW, descent via SE Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2012 | |
| Good ascent with Bill and Laura climbing directly from the gendarme saddle at the top right side of the gully. Multiple rap stations and some interesting moves gave me pause a couple of times of my choice in footware. Missed (or forgot about) the airy step on the SE arete as Bill and I downclimbed an exposed cl.4 weakness on the east side. And then downed trees forever! | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2012 4:46 pm | ||
| Daria | with Starr King Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2011 | |
| Awesome peak!! Summitted in full moonlight. | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2011 9:32 pm | ||
| Vitaliy M. | Finally..NW arete Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2011 | |
| Came back with same group to get our revenge. No thunderstorm this time! Took about an hour on the summit to take in the views! | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2011 4:23 pm | ||
| mrchad9 | Mono Meadows Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2011 | |
| Long dayhike from Mono Meadows with Vitaliy M. and dkangas after being chased off by electrical storms the year before. We got very lucky with the wind as the smoke from the nearby fires on Glacier Point road did not affect our views at all. Climbed onto the arete from the saddle where the ridge in the middle meets the southwest face. Excellent day. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2011 1:44 pm | ||
| dkangas | Return to Clark Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2011 | |
| Returned to NW arete after getting stopped by a lightning storm last fall. Day-hiked from Mono Meadow with Chad and Vitaliy. To gain the arete we climbed to the saddle between the large gendarme and the west face itself, scrambled up some class 3, then set up an anchor for the class 5 portion. Superb day. | ||
| Posted Aug 22, 2011 12:52 pm | ||
| yosemitechickon | Dun it Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2011 | |
| Up NW Arete, down NE face: https://picasaweb.google.com/yosemite.chick.on/MtClark | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2011 8:09 pm | ||
| mountainmatt | Favorites | |
| One of my favorites from my years working in the High Sierras. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2011 9:29 pm | ||
| PellucidWombat | Loooong Dayhike Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2010 | |
| Dayhiked via NW Arete from Happy Isles TH with Joel Wilson and Heyning Cheng. I carried a rope and rack to lead the exposed sections for the others, and it came in handy! I started on the 4th class crack, but found two sections that I'd say were 5.4-5.5 (so 'classic' Sierra cl. 4?). We avoided the bushwack hell on the way up but couldn't avoid it on the way down. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2010 8:24 pm | ||
| murraymcleod | 1970 Climb Date Climbed: Aug 15, 1970 | |
| Climbed with Kris Kilmer from Merced Lake HSC where we worked that summer. We had to be back by 4PM to help fix dinner for guests, so was a quick trip. Climbed east slope (not too hard) and descended via north slope I think.... | |
| Posted Jan 8, 2010 2:19 am | ||
| cottersnow | Oblique Lake Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2006 | |
| Pretty. Should've done a different route though. | ||
| Posted Dec 5, 2009 3:42 pm | ||
| gjonbelay | NW Ridge September 26 1999 Date Climbed: Sep 26, 1999 | |
| I climbed this peak with George Sinclair on a three day trip that included Starr King. We did the route from our camp at an unnamed lake on the northwest side of Mt. Clark after hiking in the previous day from the Mono Meadows trailhead. Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2009 4:15 pm | ||
| haishan | NW Arete Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2008 | |
| Loop dayhike from the Valley, up via Little Yosemite and down via SE Arete and Illilouette drainage. 1500' of great ridge scrambling and a little stiffer near the summit. Spectacular and exhausting. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2008 2:22 pm | ||
| tb00957 | southeast ridge Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2007 | |
| Very long, hot, dusty approach, for about 50 feet of 4th class fun. We brought rope but nobody used it. It's nice to check it off, but I'm not going to do this peak again anytime soon. | ||
| Posted Aug 3, 2007 12:36 pm | ||
| Dave K | Southeast Arete | |
| Fun! I climbed this with mrwsierra. I think Fall is an excellent time to climb this, since the boggy meadows of Illiouette Creek are almost entirely dried up so crossing that area is pretty easy. I found an arrowhead just below the summit. I wondered what they were hunting up there--bighorn sheep, perhaps? | |
| Posted Mar 5, 2007 5:22 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | NW Face/Arete (ascent) / NE Face (descent) Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2006 | |
| Dayhike out of Yosemite Valley, a somewhat ill-conceived warm-up for Mt. Florence the next day. This peak has been on my to-do list for a while now, since it stands out from so many vantage points in Yosemite, but its reputation for being a difficult climb put me off for quite a while. It was worth the wait. Scenic approach out of the valley, then some really bad brush and a boring hike through the forest. I looked around a bunch but couldn't figure out how to get onto the arete (later, Bob told me I needed to climb pretty high in the gully before moving onto it), so I climbed the face instead--this was much easier, with some fun, exposed 4th class (maybe a move or two of easy 5th in places), before I found a good exit onto the arete near where its angle suddenly decreases on the final part of the summit ridge. Some more scrambling with exhilarating exposure led up to the summit. The SE Ridge looked kind of tough, and since I'd burned a lot of time both on the bushwhacking and trying to figure out how to gain the arete, in the interest of expediency I descended the easy NE Face. (I didn't want to downclimb the way I came up unless I absolutely had to). A couple of class 4ish moves near the top, then class 3 ledges from there, followed by lots of sand down to Obelisk Lake. I didn't have a map for the descent down to Merced Lake, and some cliffs had me worried for a bit, but fortunately everything stayed class 2. The hike back to the valley was very, very long. I was pretty darned beat for Florence the next day... | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2006 4:46 am | ||
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