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| Streetly | Route Climbed: South Face Right Side Date Climbed: Sep 04, 2005  | |
| Beautiful day. A little chilly. The diagonal 3rd class climb to the ridge is fun. I was glad to have a printout of a photo (from this website) of that part with me to aid in the route finding. Up on the ridge, the traverse to the summit is casual except the mantle block - esp awkward downclimbing and unable to see the footholds. I lowered my pack off with a cordelette and then downclimbed. I descended the East ridge and encountered a party that had turned around b/c airy exposure on the ridge. Bumped into another hiker who turned around at the ridge. Not kosher for hikers - a modicum of technical experience and sangfroid is needed. | |
| Posted Sep 29, 2005 9:45 pm | ||
| danman3156 | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: Sept 24 2005 | |
| We had beautiful weather on the day of the climb, but it appears the days leading up to our climb where unsettled as we found 2+ feet of snow on the ridge along with ice. To say the least we were not ready for winter mountaineering. Turned around 20 feet below east summit. A great day in the mountains none the less! | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2005 1:00 am | ||
| RickF | Route Climbed: East Ridge from Mt. Carilon Date Climbed: June 12, 2004 | |
| Thanks to Phil & Joe. We made a loop starting at UBSL, up to the Carilon Plateau, Mt. Carilon, crossed the east ridge to the summit then descended the south face right side. Thunderstorms were passing just the southwest all afternoon. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2005 8:28 pm | ||
| pmlupi | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: September 1998 | |
| Over night at Upper Boy scout. Hit Whiney first overnighted then tackled Russell. Weather was cool and cloudy. The fog rolled in at about 4pm and had some flurries. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2005 3:38 pm | ||
| Amy G | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 27 August 2005 | |
| Dan's 3rd time up Russell & my first time. We heard a 30+ second rock fall near Mt Whitney. Great views, lovely day. | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2005 10:51 pm | ||
| Shaase | Route Climbed: Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: August 14, 2005 | |
| Awoke to a front moving through. Decidied to set up for success and walk to base. Overhead Whitney summit is enveloped with low level storm clouds. Ahead of me temps droping. Overall sitaution excellent - I attack. Really, this may have been one of my more poor decisions to climb. Weather really became no worse and after the notch bail option we ascended with success. Thank you weather Gods! | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2005 11:16 pm | ||
| Shaase | Route Climbed: Mithral Dihedral Date Climbed: August 12, 2005 | |
| Excellent climbing. Like climbing the splitters of Indian Creek, only on granite! | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2005 11:10 pm | ||
| ChuckO | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 7 August 2005 | |
| Excellent climb. The fun of the East Ridge lived up to all it's advertisements. Good times, solid rock, fun scrambling. Strange early (before noon) thunderstorm period, very moist air - warm temps and still wind at the summit. Thanks Rick K. !!!!! | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2005 1:07 pm | ||
| granite4brains | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: 08/06/05 | |
| This was a really fun climb. We dayhiked from the Portals. With an early start it was really fun coming up the North side of the N Fork Trail. Nothing like bushwacking and negotiating ledges by headlamp in the dark. Got pretty lucky with the weather. Looked like it could turn, but it only rained a little and after we got off the ridge. We also bouldered a bit at Whitney Portals the night before. You gotta look around and they're spread out, but there are some fun problems in the area | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2005 9:14 pm | ||
| DeeDee | Route Climbed: Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: August, 2001 | |
| Great route. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2005 6:55 pm | ||
| jeffn | Route Climbed: Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: July 21, 2005 | |
| Spent the night at Iceberg lake. Only one other party there. Not much trafffic for the middle of summer. Ridge was a little cold until the sun hit it at 8 am or so. We started early to avoid T'storms and were back at the car by 3 when it started raining. A beautiful climb and certainly worth the rather mellow 4 hour approach to Iceberg Lake and the hour or so from there. | ||
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 9:08 am | ||
| stoneloan | Route Climbed: Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: 1999 | |
| see trip report | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2005 12:51 pm | ||
| lefty | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 17, 2005 | |
| 16-hour solo day hike on a beautiful day. | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2005 1:21 am | ||
| bajaandy | Route Climbed: East Ridge via Rockwell variation Date Climbed: July 18, 2005 | |
| Climbed with Ted and Joe from Upper Boy Scout Lake. Joe followed about a half hour behind me, while Ted summited Carrilion. Some snow still at the bottom of the Rockwell variation. Very warm weather, so snow won't last long. This an awesome climb (minus the scree slog) with enough exposure to keep you focused. Weather was perfect with awesome views in all directions. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2005 9:54 am | ||
| awagher | Route Climbed: South Face Right Side Date Climbed: July 8th, 2005 | |
| Day hiked in from the Whitney Portals with Mark Ingram. 17 hrs. car to car. Nice climb. One hour thunder / hail / lightning storm hit while descending to the pass. Here are some pics... | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2005 3:08 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: June 26, 2005 | |
| En route to Mount Carillon. | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2005 5:50 pm | ||
| Zzyzx | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Terrific climb with Pavel and Roman. Spent a night on the East summit with a spectacular view of Williamson and then went to the West Summit in the morning. Came down the South Face and went to Whitney. | ||
| Posted Jun 25, 2005 10:26 pm | ||
| Romain | Route Climbed: South Face, Right side Date Climbed: June 19, 2005 | |
| Climbed with Rene' Renteria. We camped at Iceberg Lake with RPC and his wife Shirley (see next entry). Had a nice hike up the South Face and finished the portion of the East Ridge we had not completed in January 2003. Very windy and cold that day, but a nice route. I don't think it's used much as an ascent route (it's basically the descent for Fishhook and Mithral). A TR with photos is on my website. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2005 12:47 am | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: Fishhook Arete Date Climbed: June 19, 2005 | |
| Shirley and I took our time on approach this time around. 1st night at UBSL; 2nd night at Iceberg. There we had the pleasure of running into and camping with Romain (whom I had bothered for beta a ~year earlier) and Rene. Climbed the Arete on day 3 under sunny skies but in high winds and very cold conditions. Nice route. Followed description in Supertopo. Almost every pitch has some cool move or two but those are separated by long sections of low 5th class (except P1). Route is ledgy. Felt pretty altitude stricken at top. There's better routes on this thing but it'll be a while before we want to do this approach hike again... | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2005 8:01 pm | ||
| kovarpa | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Up East Ridge, down South Face. Bivy on the ridge was awesome - unbelievable views. First of the three 14ers that day in the fine company of Kris and Roman. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2005 2:12 am | ||
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