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| thexcat | From Stanford  Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2012 | |
| With AJ. Fun ridge traverse. Cliffed out on the way down from summit to Hilton Lake and had to backtrack on some rather unpleasant terrain. Finished the hike in the dark, relying on moonlight and AJs headlamp since I forgot mine. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2012 8:41 pm | ||
| edge17 | Ridge traverse from Stanford (N) Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2012 | |
| Traversed the ridge from Mt. Stanford (N) with xav. Great weather, lot's of fun | ||
| Posted Oct 23, 2012 12:51 am | ||
| soslaw | Traverse from Stanford (N) Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2012 | |
| The ridge between Stanford and Morgan offers sustained class 3 scrambling. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2012 1:02 am | ||
| cab | From Mt. Stanford (N) Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012 | |
| Traversed the ridge from Stanford (N) as part of a dayhike from Rock Creek Lake. The descent down the sandy slopes to Davis Lake was probably the best part of the day. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2012 10:13 am | ||
| LincolnB | Esha canyoon Date Climbed: May 9, 2012 | |
| Climbed with brother Jon. Plan was to crampon up Esha Canyon from McGee creek, but this was a low snow year so lots of gaps between snow fields -- so we just rock-hopped up all the way up. Class 1/2 all the way except a couple of very short class 3 bits that we could have avoided by going up a scree slope. Nice climb, great views. Glissading down the snow fields made for a pleasant descent, very glad we didn't have to rock hop all the way down. Less than 4 miles one-way, a bit over 5,000' elevation gain. | |
| Posted May 9, 2012 11:10 pm | ||
| boyblue | From Davis Lake Date Climbed: May 24, 1981 | |
| Unsettled weather. The sky to the west was composed of black and purple clouds- very impressive, but I didn't stay on top for long. Signed the register, took my usual 360 panorama, ate a Slim-Jim and headed down. Started snowing about 3 minutes after leaving summit. Lower down and back at camp, it rained for the rest of the day. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2010 10:04 pm | ||
| mrchad9 | Long dayhike from Rock Creek Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2008 | |
| Long day from trailhead above Rock Creek Lake. Climbed with Stanford and then followed the ridge to the Morgan west summit, finishing with Morgan. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2010 7:41 pm | ||
| Princess Buttercup | Loop w/ Stanford (N) Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2008 | |
| Great day hike out of the hilton lakes drainage. | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2009 11:28 pm | ||
| ridgeard3230 | east canyon Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2008 | |
| We started at the Hilton lakes Trail head just past the Crowley Lakes camp ground. We also noticed another Hilton lakes Trail Head sign near the Fire Station but this is not the one you want. The last 50 yards was rough and 4 wheel drive was needed,although there was 2 pull outs for 2 wheel drivers. The trail was switchbacks but we avoided them by taking an obsure trail that went straight up. After 4 or 5 swichbacks we dropped down into the drainage and took that to the top of the hill. on top we found an old ming road and followed it to where it started switching. At on old dead log we went straight to the end and this was the canyon we climbed to the ridge. It was 3rd and 4th class with very little route climbing. gaining the ridge we turned south and stayed on the riger to the peak. It was 3/4 of a mile with 500 ft. vertical | ||
| Posted Sep 19, 2008 3:37 pm | ||
| Sam Page | Nevahbe Ridge Date Climbed: Nov 1, 1994 | |
| I forget the exact date. I remember this route being rated as 4th class, but thinking that it did not seem that hard. | |
| Posted Apr 19, 2008 10:23 pm | ||
| bcd | east gullies Date Climbed: Feb 6, 2008 | |
| up the east gullies from Hilton Creek Road | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2008 4:53 pm | ||
| dshoshone | Route Climbed: nw ridge Date Climbed: June 24,2003 | |
| Climbed the brown peak (Escha)I on the way up. Then to Morgan N. I also climbed another peak to the west. | |
| Posted Nov 10, 2005 6:16 pm | ||
| Langenbacher | Route Climbed: southeast slope. Date Climbed: June 11, 2005 | |
| From lake 9852 (2nd Hilton Lake ???). With Larry, Barbee , Ted , Derrick , Greg , David , and Garen. We started at Hilton Lakes Trailhead , then set up camp at the lake. Some crappy x-country until we got above the timber line, then mostly good snow. The cannister for the register was totally empty when I found it - I even looked on the south summit - no register book to be found. Fortunately Derrick had a fresh one to donate to the summit. We tried to descend directly to Davis lake but got hung up on cliffs and had to go back up and take our original route down. Got back to camp well after dark. It was a beautiful weather, but the 14 hour day was a bit much. We stayed up late for a belated 'happy hour', but we were too pooped to climb all the way Stanford the next day. See Pictures at http://community.webshots.com/album/379886846SFowuv or http://community.webshots.com/user/langenbacher | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2005 9:13 pm | ||
| cottersnow | Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: November 2003 | |
| Took two tries and is a deceivingly long route with some interesting route finding. Was really cold and our water froze a couple of hours into a 9 hour push to the summit. Fast and convenient descent. | ||
| Posted Feb 28, 2005 3:28 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | A couple of times... Date Climbed: May 30, 2004 | |
| May 30, 2004, traversed from Mt. Stanford, descending the SE Slopes: Red Peak and Mt. Warren, eat your heart out: Mt. Morgan (N) is now the worst climb I've ever done. I thought that ridge from Stanford was never going to end. I took a spill on a loose boulder along here that didn't add to my enjoyment of the route. Mt. Morgan's register reads like a who's-who of people working on the SPS List. No one else in his/her right mind would slog up here. July 6, 2006: Despite my comments above, I came back to climb Nevahbe Ridge with Bob anyway. Not a bad climb, but the class 4 rating given to it by the 1st ed. of Moynier and Fiddler is way overstated--most is class 1-2, with just a couple of short sections of (mostly contrived) class 3. Still, there's an interesting variety of rock types, and the transition from desert to alpine terrain is unusual. Worth doing once (although it's also worth observing that Croft has apparently done this a number of times). | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2004 2:20 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: Traversed from Mt. Stanford, decent via Southeast Slope Date Climbed: July 19, 2001 | |
| This was a fun dayhike with my brother Ron. The Stanford - Morgan traverse is quite enjoyable. For an alternative opinion, cleary clueless, see the above entry. Trip Report | |
| Posted Dec 11, 2003 4:58 pm | ||
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