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| pauljohnwallace | North Face  Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2012 | |
| Carried over at conclusion of JMT | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2013 3:32 pm | ||
| CWessels | East Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2011 | |
| Day hike of Russell and Whitney together from MR. Tried to add Muir to the list, but scrambled up the wrong peak. There's a phony register on top of one of the unnamed pinnacles near Muir. Someone should remove it. | |
| Posted Aug 3, 2012 6:48 pm | ||
| Ol Walsher | East Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2012 | |
| Day hike with Jed and Chad. | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2012 11:59 pm | ||
| krrt2000 | East Ridge Date Climbed: Sep 11, 1991 | |
| Solo, great climb, both summits | |
| Posted Feb 26, 2012 10:13 am | ||
| sardude | Did it. Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007 | |
| 3rd class east ridge | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2012 12:50 am | ||
| Josh Lewis | So Close Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2011 | |
| We were very close, but felt like things were getting too dicey with the limited day light. I told myself that day that I did not regret turning around. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2011 5:07 pm | ||
| gimpilator | Winter Attempt To 13,880 Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2011 | |
| Josh Lewis and I made an attempt on the east ridge. According to my GPS we came within 200 vertical feet of the summit. Our decision was based on excessive exposure and 3 hours of daylight remaining. We did Mount Carillon on the way back to camp. | |
| Posted Dec 12, 2011 1:26 pm | ||
| Super Dave | East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2011 | |
| The east-ridge was awesome! Second summit of a great four-peak traverse with Sawtooth Sean. The crux of the day was finding the spot to exit the ridge and drop into the south face gully. Easy to see from below, but harder to see from above. Continued on to Whitney. Trip Report | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2011 12:32 am | ||
| madclimber | East Ridge Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2009 | |
| It's all about the mantle :) | |
| Posted Nov 2, 2011 8:28 pm | ||
| Steve1215 | Fish Hook Arête (5.9) Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2011 | |
| An ultra-aesthetic route. P1: use the left of the two steep obvious cracks. On the lead, with frozen fingers, it felt like 5.8+ …P3 is sort of pumpy: the natural line does go a few feet down left of the arête, some wild air under your feet. Descending toward the “notch”…the arête across the way looks like vertical 5.10--from the notch I climbed directly up this narrow face on great little knobs, using a few tiny cams--steep but easy! We got a late start and had to find the "South Face Right Side" descent route via headlamp. There is confusion about the route name spelling. It is "Fish Hook Arête." In 1974, Colliver and Cleare seemed to settle on this. | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2011 12:31 pm | ||
| MCGusto | East Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2006 | |
| Early morning (2am?) start to great weather and a great day with Dave S. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2011 12:17 am | ||
| Daria | Mithral Dihedral Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011 | |
| Quite a striking route, very memorable experience. Finished despite massive hail storm as we clung to the rock in the middle of the dihedral | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2011 9:25 pm | ||
| Daria | Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2011 | |
| One of my favorite climbs. Great route! | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2011 9:16 pm | ||
| SJ | Fail Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2010 | |
| Went after the first snow thinking the north side of the east ridge wouldn't be that bad. We were wrong. Made it about half way up the ridge from the saddle before turning back. Lots of snow/ice, had to clear hand and foot holds and we were wearing approach shoes and had cold feet. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2011 9:27 pm | ||
| Roots | East Arete Date Climbed: May 15, 2005 | |
| Great climb with nice exposure! | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2011 7:10 pm | ||
| fleshy1 | East Ridge Jazz Hands Edition Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011 | |
| Day trip. Excellent ridge! | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2011 2:25 pm | ||
| SawtoothSean | TRaverse Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2010 | |
| Did the Carillon-Russell-Whitney-Muir traverse in a long day with SuperDave. Whitney was great, but Mt. Russell was spectacular. The East Ridge is tons of fun and the down climb the south side provided us with a nice challenge. Watching climbers on the South face routes was fantastic. | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2011 9:39 pm | ||
| Bill562 | East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2011 | |
| Solo from Whitney Portal. Lots of people and bears at the portal, not a single creature on Russell. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2011 2:02 pm | ||
| ElGreco | E ridge ascent, N ridge descent Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2011 | |
| A fantastic ascent route that I didn't enjoy as much as it deserved because I'd spent all my mental and physical energy, and almost one of my remaining lives, going up a sh***y gully from Cleaver cirque up the SE ridge of Carillon to get to the Russell-Carillon saddle. The rock on the E ridge is excellent. The first half is easy and not exposed. Difficulty and exposure increase after that, but nothing dramatic. A way always materializes when you get up close, and the moves are fun. The N ridge is much looser and dirtier. Traversed below the ridgeline to the E summit, then dropped down the ridge sticking to its N side. Low down, I had to traverse way over to climber's left (facing down) to avoid the pinnacles and other difficulties on the ridge. Dropped to Tulainyo after that. Climbed and descended Cleaver Col back to camp. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2011 1:41 pm | ||
| zoomloco | Star Trekkin car to car Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2010 | |
| The crux is a finger crack and slab feet (.10b/c) but the best part is the 200' exposed 5.9 handcrack above. This route also does the crux of Mithril Dihedral at the top. Recommended. Car to car in 17 hours. S Face of Russell is Chilly already mid Sept... | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2011 11:50 am | ||
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