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| nerdom | Route Climbed: Swiss Arete Date Climbed: 9 July 05  | |
| Via the Swiss Arete. Two teams of two each with friends Doug, Colin and Scott. Noticed in the summit log that badass ski legend Glen Plake had signed in a few weeks earlier! | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2005 3:52 pm | ||
| Samantha | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: July 3, 2005 | |
| Finally made it to the summit of Mt. Sill after two attempts from the west, and one chicken exit from the east. Stellar weather all day. The snow was pretty mushy though. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2005 4:01 pm | ||
| Dave K | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: July 3, 2005 | |
| This was a very enjoyable climb. The conditions were quite snowy for this time of year, which was an advantage. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2005 12:40 am | ||
| ceschulze | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: June 28 2005 | |
| Mt. Sill is a beautiful mountain and I hope to make it up there again. It is my first "14er" in the Palasade region. The climb via South Fork was nice except for the aweful plants and mosquitos in the Willow lake area. | ||
| Posted Jul 4, 2005 12:58 am | ||
| cottersnow | Route Climbed: From Polemonium Date Climbed: 08/04 | |
| Followed easy ridge from Polemonium. What a great view. If bivied behind North Pal (south side) it is possible to slog around the Palisades and tag Sill. | ||
| Posted Apr 23, 2005 12:11 am | ||
| soslaw | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: September 14, 2003 | |
| Climbed with Nathan as a get acquainted climb in anticipation of our trip to Aconcagua in January 2004. Set camp just below the Palisade glacier. Rte up the North couloir was straight forward followed by some short pitches of class 4 rock. Blue bird day on top. | |
| Posted Apr 18, 2005 2:14 pm | ||
| Brian Frederick | Route Climbed: Swiss arete and north couloir Date Climbed: Late 1980's | |
| Climbed North couloir solo in May. Good hard snow all the way from 3rd lake to top of couloir (took short cut straight up from 3rd along Temple crag and Gayley to bottom of Glacier notch and camped ). Tricky, snowy traverse to ridge but very fun in retrospect. Climbed the Swiss arete in summer- wonderful climb and fantastic views. Can't wait to take my son on that one. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2005 11:55 pm | ||
| plume | Route Climbed: Swiss Arete Date Climbed: June 1998 | |
| Led by the late great Kim Richards. Perfect weather, perfect climb, perfect trip. | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2005 5:26 pm | ||
| sierratrekkin | Route Climbed: V-Notch Date Climbed: June, 2000 | |
| I climbed Mount Sill in June of 2000, via V-notch along with guide Brendon Cusick of AAI. Unfortunately at that time I did not own my digital camera and have no pictures. I returned in 2004 to see the west side of North Pal., Sill and the entire Palisade crest by backcountry travel from Bishop Pass over Napsack Pass, the Barrett Lake region, Potluck Pass, and later returned via the PCT north, then over the Dusy Basin trail again. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2004 7:10 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: July 3, 2004 | |
| Dayhike out of the Big Pine TH. I found the route-finding in the North Couloir much trickier than expected--so much for Bob's claim that I'd find it to be the easiest 4th class in the Sierra! It took considerable searching to find the easy way up, and I had a heck of a time trying to remember my exit point on the way back. The final portion up to the ridge looks like cliffs from above! I was starting to think I'd have to hang about and try to convince some other climber to let me use his rope and rappel... fortunately a key cairn and some more diligent route inspection saved me from embarrassment. No views on Sill as the summit was socked in with clouds. A rather impressive lightning storm developed as I was heading up Gayley, so I bailed out down the drainage to Willow Lake without tagging that one. That was a mistake--I didn't find the use trail, and ended up doing way more talus hopping, bush whacking, and cursing than I'd have preferred. | |
| Posted Nov 16, 2004 12:10 am | ||
| bechtt | Route Climbed: Southwest chutes via Scimitar Pass Date Climbed: 25 Sep 04 | |
| Perfect day -- longer slog than expected. Outstanding view from the top. | |
| Posted Nov 10, 2004 12:34 pm | ||
| Steve Larson | Route Climbed: Swiss Arete Date Climbed: July, 1981 | |
| Climbed this with Allan Bard, John Fischer, and a couple other folks from the Palisade School of Mountaineering as a diversion from the backbreaking labor of digging out our high camp equipment cache above the Palisade Glacier. We even had some politically incorrect fun trundling rocks down the east face. This route as definitely a classic. And the peak is awesome by any route. Highly recommended. | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2004 9:27 pm | ||
| BranchWhitney | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: 8/23/2004 | |
| Great climb. As of 8/23/2004, you can avoid all the snow in the "L" shape snow field by climbing around it on the left side. This involves easy class 3 scrambling and bypasses a lot of the scree in the gully. I believe this route follows the approach to the Swiss Arete. Also, you can avoid virtually all the snow and ice in the Palisade Glacier by sneaking around the left side. | ||
| Posted Aug 24, 2004 11:04 am | ||
| Johnhl94563 | Route Climbed: Northwest Face Date Climbed: August 22, 2004 | |
| Did a variation of the North Couloir. This is called Northwest Face by Secor. Instead of climbing up to Glacier Notch, we ascended from the Palisade glacier to the notch betwen Mt. Sill and Apex Peak then followed the normal route from the traverse. This was filled with lots of loose rock. Fun climb lots of weather (thunder/rain/snow/sleet) every afternoon. Found the 4th class pitch very obvious and simple. For more information, read my trip report. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2004 12:19 am | ||
| Scott M. | Route Climbed: Swiss Arete Date Climbed: August 11, 2004 | |
| What a fun route! Had camped below Gayley the night before and headed up the Swiss Arete as part of a planned traverse to Thunderbolt. We made the top in good speed and departed true to the traverse toward Polemonium. Nice clean rock on this route and the reputation about the view from on top is well deserved. It is great. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2004 4:57 pm | ||
| jimmasonllc | Route Climbed: Swiss Arete Date Climbed: July 25, 2004 | |
| ANOTHER SIERRAS EPIC ACCOMPLISHED! By: Robert Vallera, Jochen Klinke and Jim Mason Happy Birthday Jochen! (41) Date: July 25-26, 2004 Route: Swiss Arete, III (5.7) Equipment: 50 meter double rope, generous rack of TCUs and Cams, hexes #4-10, 1 set nuts, 1 pink tri-cam. Summited at 8:00 PM after about 8 pitches. Fun climb, nice exposure, a classic, and for us - in more ways than one - an epic! Got back to our camp at the foot of the Palisade Glacier about 9:30 AM the morning of July 26th. (See trip report.) | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 5:02 pm | ||
| gordonye | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: July 24, 2004 | |
| After a late start from Sam Mack Meadow, I made it to about 13300' above the loose rocks of Glacier Notch. My partner Vladimir made it to the summit. Gorgeous scenery but very long route made for challenging navigation when descending at night. Dropped my ice axe somewhere along the glacier trail above Sam Mack Meadow. It's a black HB Glacier, about 2' long. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2004 2:32 pm | ||
| mt_daydream | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: July 1, 2003 | |
| Awesome peak! Great approach - 8 miles, gain about 6K feet, lots of lakes and scenery. View from the Palisade glacier was great. Even better was the view of the Sierra mountainscape from the top! Summited at 9 am - very calm at the top. The North Couloir had some moves that I thought were touching class 5 (really exposed too). Glissade down the L-notch was fun. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 4:41 am | ||
| Fred Bagni | Route Climbed: North Couloir Date Climbed: June 21, 2002 | |
| Best view. I love the palisades. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2004 7:03 pm | ||
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