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| Vic Hanson | #3  Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2012 | |
| We hiked up the Meysan Lakes Trail and camped the 1st night on a saddle above the lake on the ridge up to Irvine. Then we traversed over to Mallory and LeConte before going down a gully and camping below Pickering. The next day we climbed Pickering, Joe Devel and Chamberlin and then down to Crabtree Lakes. The following day we went from Crabtree to the JMT and and climbed up Discovery Pinnacle before going down the Whitney Trail. | |
| Posted Oct 21, 2012 1:28 am | ||
| mrchad9 | NW Chute Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2012 | |
| Nice climb and view and liked the traverse to Corcoran even more. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2012 5:26 pm | ||
| soslaw | NW Chute Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2012 | |
| Waterfall pitch wasn't too difficult on the ascent. Challenging on the descent if you don't use the sling. | |
| Posted Sep 29, 2012 11:18 pm | ||
| Bill562 | From Meysan Lake Date Climbed: Oct 30, 2011 | |
| With Oleg R via NW chute. Challenging new late fall/early winter type snow. | |
| Posted Oct 31, 2011 11:23 am | ||
| Daria | + Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2008 | |
| Nice peak, and even nicer summit | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2010 9:13 pm | ||
| becquerel | NW Chute Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2010 | |
| As SJ wrote, scrambling in loose rock was not so much fun, but the other parts on the solid rock are beautiful. Didn't have any problems in the famous Waterfall pitch, it's little tricky on the way down, but the holds and steps are pretty good. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2010 10:46 pm | ||
| SJ | Uno Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2010 | |
| Scramble up to the summit plateau sucked, a lot of loose rock, but the climbing was great once we got to the solid stuff. Took the NW Chute. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2010 1:01 pm | ||
| Princess Buttercup | First Roped Climb Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2008 | |
| Ice on the waterfall made me nervous, so Steve roped me up. Need to go back and try again on my own. | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2009 11:26 pm | ||
| Climber Dave | Northwest chute Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2009 | |
| Climbed via the northwest chute, Good snow leading up to the LeConte/Mallory plateau, and loose rock and snow in the actual chute. All in all a really fun climb!! | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2009 12:40 pm | ||
| cab | NW Chute from Meysan Lake Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009 | |
| Left O.C. at 1am, started hiking at 5am. Probably the most miserable scree slog I have ever done above Meysan Lake. Waterfall pitch was a little hairy, especially since I was by myself, but I made it. Went over to Mallory too, and back to the car at 4pm, then drove 4 hours home. Long day! Love climbing peaks like this one that don't get much traffic. No one had signed the summit register for 2.5 weeks before I did. | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2009 3:25 pm | ||
| derbilly | Challenge day 10 Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2009 | |
| After getting past the crumbling gully above Meysan Lake, it was a nice climb to LeConte and over to Corcoran. I was aided by a generous cheater sling on the waterfall pitch, which is certainly class 4+ in my estimation. Overall, I was worn out from the previous 10 days of climbing and had to skip Mallory. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2009 4:10 pm | ||
| Shirley Lam | up North face, down SW chute Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2009 | |
| Climbed with bighornmonkey and Miki...who did awesome on her first technical climb at altitude! | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2009 3:52 pm | ||
| boyblue | Northeast Face Date Climbed: Jul 4, 1987 | |
| With Dave McLaughlin via North Fork of Tuttle Creek. Very unpleasant approach. Lots of bush-whacking, but a faint use trail can be followed if you are *very* observant. Expected water at our base camp at 9000 feet, but Tuttle was dry (subterranean). Had to descend back to a small spring at approx. 8000 feet to fill water bottles. Tuttle re-appears at approx. 11000 feet. The 2000 foot scree chute that leads to base of north face nearly killed us. The class 3 climbing on the peak, though, was fun and challenging. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2009 11:46 pm | ||
| bighornmonkey | up North face, down SW chute Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2009 | |
| Fun route, cold day. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2009 10:42 am | ||
| seano | NW chute from Meysan lake Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2009 | |
| Quite the talus slog above Meysan lake. The waterfall pitch was shorter than expected. Start of a Le Conte-Corcoran-Mallory-Irvine traverse. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2009 8:43 pm | ||
| Guilty | Northwest Chute Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2008 | |
| Solo traverse from Malory, Irvine, and Candlelight. Descending the waterfall pitch was thrilling. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2008 2:25 am | ||
| brucelacroix | East Arete Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008 | |
| A fun climb. Combined with East slope of Mt. Mallory. | ||
| Posted Jul 14, 2008 9:42 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | NW Chute Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2008 | |
| Trip Report | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2008 9:48 pm | ||
| Steve Larson | NW chute Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2008 | |
| This was my first big Sierra Peak in nine months after injuring my knee. I went with my friend Laura, who is new to quasi-technical Sierra peaks. It took us a lot longer than expected. We intended to do the NF, but by the time we got to the plateau (postholing near the end--ugh!) it was too late. So we did the NW chute. I gave Laura a TR on a short crack/chimney halfway up (good job Laura--your first roped climbing in the alpine!). Even taking an easier route, we ended up missing burgers at WPS when we got down. Oh well. Pizza in LP was a pretty good substitute. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2008 1:49 pm | ||
| lefty | Waterfall Pitch Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2006 | |
| No ice or water on the route. | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2007 12:19 am | ||
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