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| km_donovan | Route Climbed: Kilpacker Basin  Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2005 | |
| Bailed on the traverse from El Diente the previous day because of the weather. I did not have enough food for a second day so I hiked back to the car to re-supply and went the next day. A challenging and fun route. Bring your ice axe. | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2006 5:58 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | From El Diente Date Climbed: Aug 27, 1969 | |
| Did the connecting ridge from El Diente solo, in a storm ... wouldn't recommend following my example ... pretty damn stupid. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2006 2:33 am | ||
| markhyams | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jul 7, 1997 | |
| We attemted the traverse to El Diente, but had to bail because of weather. Beautiful early-season conditions. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 12:16 am | ||
| LS | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: 07-sep-2005 | |
| See the trip-report here: http://distantpeak.com/web/mountains/n-america/mount_wilson | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2005 4:48 pm | ||
| Andinistaloco | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: 2000? | |
| Fun climb and a neat little bit of scrambling up top. Great views of the area! | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2005 1:31 am | ||
| doumall | Route Climbed: North Slopes via Navajo Lake Date Climbed: July 10, 2005 | |
| Summited with ColoradoScott. Nice introduction to 50+ degree snow. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2005 2:00 pm | ||
| ColoradoScott | Route Climbed: North Slopes from Navajo Lake Date Climbed: July 10, 2004 | |
| We climbed this route taking a variation off the Northern Rib route next to Navajo Glacier at 13000' by traversing west onto a 35 degree snowfield that steepened and approached 40 degrees near our exit onto another small rock rib. Then we climbed the snow couloir west of that rock rib continuously to the notch below the saddle. This couloir gradually steepend to 52 degrees near the top. Crampons and axe were mandatory for safe climbing on the perfect snow. The scramble to the actual summit was easier than we expected and we reached the summit at 11:00 am. There were two people on top that we followed to the first saddle west of the notch and watched them strap on their skis and make perfect turns down the north facing couloir. We continued along the ridge to El Diente, the route taking us three hours from summit to summit. The route finding on the ridge was fairly easy, cairns marking the route under the western points that needed a downclimb on the south side. Overall an excellent climb, but probably the hardest climb I've done to date. Not recommended for climbers without experience and equipment for steep snow. | |
| Posted Jul 12, 2005 12:31 pm | ||
| Larry V | Route Climbed: north slopes, from Silver Pick Date Climbed: August 1995 | |
| Last 200 feet is very exposed but I could hardly tell it as we were in the clouds. Thrilling climb, none the less. We thought our day was over because of the weather, but things cleared up during our descent to about 13,000'. So we contoured as best we could over to El Diente and climbed it too. Returned to Silver Pick before nightfall, somehow. | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2005 5:55 pm | ||
| goat14er | Route Climbed: North Face via Navajo Lake Date Climbed: July 2004 | |
| This one was a fun peak - and I thought it was easier than El Diente, but that's just me. The last 150 feet were a blast! College students aren't supposed to wake up at 4:30 in the morning.........but we did. Though it paid off because we beat the storms! Great views! | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2004 1:00 am | ||
| bc44caesar | Route Climbed: Ridge Traverse Date Climbed: 15 Aug 2004 | |
| Traversed from El Diente, took somewhat less than two hours. Exposure wasn't as bad nor climbing as difficult as its reputation. There were no moves as hard or as exposed as the final ridge climb to Mt. Wilson's summit on the traverse. Still, it was a lot of fun!! Mt. Wilson's summit is the best I've been on in the San Juans!! | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2004 12:25 am | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: Standard via Silver Pick Date Climbed: July 10, 2004 | |
| Erin and I finished the 14ers except for Culebra with this climb. I enjoyed the scrambling at the top -- what a fun jumble of pointy boulders! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2004 12:41 pm | ||
| mountainmota | Route Climbed: North Face(2) Date Climbed: July 2002, 2003 | |
| Fun 14er! | |
| Posted Jun 15, 2004 7:17 pm | ||
| DaveC | Route Climbed: ne couloir from slate creek Date Climbed: july 01 and 01 | |
| also took 2 tries for this one, tne ne couloir is great, not crowded, but would be better with snow on it. lots of elk in slate creek. | |
| Posted May 21, 2004 9:48 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Route Climbed: Traverse from El Diente Date Climbed: July 17, 2003 | |
| After an awsome climb up El Diente's west ridge we had an awsome traverse to Mount Wilson. The traverse was alot of fun with some great clmbing along the way. The final approach to the summit involved some great class 4 climbing and my climbing partner and I actually went separate ways climbing different lines to the summit. We were able to glissade almost the entire way down to upper Navajo Basin. Snow was perfect for standing glissade. | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2004 11:12 pm | ||
| hhsilleck | Route Climbed: August 2003 Date Climbed: North Face | |
| Summited on traverse from El Diente. Upclimbed the rappel section on the traverse ... a rope was not necessary but could be nice. | |
| Posted Jan 10, 2004 6:54 pm | ||
| Matt Mahoney | Route Climbed: Silver Pick Date Climbed: July 20, 2003 | |
| Traversed to El Diente, then climbed Wilson Pk | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2003 10:45 pm | ||
| jvoss | Route Climbed: Navajo Basin Date Climbed: August 23, 2002 | |
| Solid climb on a well marked trail. We went straight over the final 150 ft ridge to reach the summit. The exposure on the final ridge didn't seem to bother my more experienced climbing partner, but I was a bit intimidated. Great views from the summit, good opportunity to scout route to El Diente. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2002 9:21 am | ||
| rmjwinters | Route Climbed: North Slopes Date Climbed: August 22, 2002 | |
| It was a great route and well marked. Felt more like Class 3 than 4 even toward the top. Great weather, great views. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2002 9:28 pm | ||
| climbcolorado | Route Climbed: North Slopes Date Climbed: 8/013/02 | |
| Easy to ridge with a 4th class finish. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2002 6:05 pm | ||
| Peter Eliassen | Route Climbed: Silver Pick Date Climbed: 10/18/01 | |
| Wow...there was quite a bit of snow near the top of this mountain...so the final moves were rather difficult. The mountain looks pretty daunting from the 13,000 foot saddle near Wilson Peak...but it is not as bad as it looks...just watch out for snow on top...as that was pretty risky for me... | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2001 3:52 pm | ||
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