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| mthilgard13 | Perfect Spring Climb Date Climbed: May 28, 2006 | |
| Calm day, with a foot of powder up the U Notch. Climbed to the top of the Chimney, but ran out of time...wow, that traverse needs time with snow. I would use protection with snow as well. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2006 3:55 am | ||
| kevin trieu | North Palisade via N-Notch & Chimney  Date Climbed: May 14, 2006 | |
| What a climb. 5/14 ended to be a 20 hour day starting at 4:00am at just behind the lake to the summit at 11:30am and back to the car at Midnight. yeah!!! | |
| Posted May 19, 2006 10:27 pm | ||
| bajaandy | Route: Northeast Buttress, Grade II, 5.6 | |
| Second attempt on this one. Climbed it the year before with Matt G. and Dave D., only to get turned back by a sinus infection that reacted badly to altitude. Ouch. Camped high on the moraine and crossed the 'schrund of the U-notch to gain the rock wall on the right side. 3-4 pitches of 5.6 climbing put us on the slopes below the upper snow field. Awesome climb. Downclimbed and rapped the route | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2006 4:21 pm | ||
| PellucidWombat | Route Climbed: SW Couloir+Chimney Variation - Descended Clyde Variation Date Climbed: October 1, 2005 | |
| Fun climb, and the wind and blowing snow definitely made conditions more difficult than expected. For those who want my want to try climbing the Chimney variation on a 30m rope - don't do it! Its not long enough unless you don't mind simul-climbing a lot. Descending the Clyde Variation was very straightforward, even with no prior planning to use the route. | |
| Posted Dec 16, 2005 9:51 pm | ||
| tdoughty | Route Climbed: Clyde Couloir Date Climbed: JUne 1976 | |
| Climbed as a present to myself for graduating from High School. With Ray Barnett | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2005 2:02 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: NW Ridge (ascent) / LeConte Route (descent) Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2005 | |
| Final peak on a traverse from Thunderbolt with Glenn and Curt. In contrast to Bob's experience, we found the section between Starlight and North Pal to be a fair bit easier than the section between Thunderbolt and Starlight--but carrying a rope, we probably made different choices than he did. There was one rappel along the way that we wouldn't have had a prayer of downclimbing. Couldn't make heads or tails of Secor's route descriptions on the summit, and ended up rapping off the summit and following a mystery chute down. Found ducks, footprints, and a convenient ledge system to take us down into the main SW Chute. I guess we stumbled upon the LeConte route... | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2005 3:21 am | ||
| Completebum | Route Climbed: West Chute + Chimney Var. Date Climbed: October 1, 2005 | |
| An excellant peak, I wish I could've enjoyed the summit a bit more but the reality of having to hike back to T-bolt pass in the dark made me cut it to 5 minutes. Still no book in the register, just a dull pencil and a few bits of paper. For more details see Mark's (Pellucid Wombat) impending trip report. | |
| Posted Oct 3, 2005 11:10 am | ||
| Kerstin | Route Climbed: U-Notch + Chimney Variation Date Climbed: August 9, 1987 | |
| An exciting climb, I found the chimney difficult due to the altitude. We made the mistake of bringing only one nine mm rope. The snow conditions in the U-Notch were perfect in early morning. By afternoon we encountered slush over hard ice, and rockfall. It took us forever to rappel the couloir with only one 165 foot rope. Still, it was a great day. I'll never forget the view from the top! | |
| Posted Sep 17, 2005 12:52 pm | ||
| kovarpa | Route Climbed: U-Notch + Chimney Date Climbed: August 31, 2005 | |
| Soloed U-Notch, then climbed the chimney. Added Starlight and Polemonium for a 3 peak day. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2005 8:29 pm | ||
| BranchWhitney | Route Climbed: West Chute Date Climbed: 9/5/2004 | |
| Great climb. One of the best 14ers in the Sierra. The summit puts up a good fight. | ||
| Posted Sep 7, 2005 12:22 am | ||
| GlennG | Route Climbed: Northwest ridge Date Climbed: September 4th 2005 | |
| Climbed up from the notch separating Starlight and North Palisade. Part of a day hike from South Lake where we tagged Thunderbolt, Starlight and finished here. Climbed with my little bro Curt and Matthew Holliman. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2005 11:05 pm | ||
| Brian Kalet | Route Climbed: Clyde Variation Date Climbed: August 7, 2005 | |
| Was planning on bagging Polemonium next, but got chased off by thunderstorms. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2005 6:13 pm | ||
| travelin_light | Route Climbed: U Notch/Chimney Date Climbed: June 25, 2005 | |
| Fun snow climb. Snow is getting harder. Tagged the summit and the got pounded by a fierce snow storm all the way back down to camp by the terminal moraine. | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2005 1:01 pm | ||
| Brian Frederick | Route Climbed: U-notch/ chimney Date Climbed: July, Mid 80s | |
| Very fun climb, a challenge to surmount the bergschrund, then hard neve to the notch. The chimney pitches were fairly easy with a minimal rack. One of my favorite summits. Stayed too long and had some rockfall in the couloir coming down. | |
| Posted Mar 30, 2005 11:30 pm | ||
| RSN473 | Route Climbed: U-Notch/Chimney Date Climbed: June 21, 2003 | |
| Great Climb! Getting across bergshrund was a bit tricky, but our semi-large group (6) was able to get up and back to camp by sunset. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2005 2:02 pm | ||
| myles | Route Climbed: U-Notch to Clyde variation Date Climbed: July 1997 | |
| Windy, cloudy and cold, cold on top. | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2005 9:59 am | ||
| sierratrekkin | Route Climbed: U-Notch Date Climbed: June, 2000 | |
| I climbed North Palisade in June of 2000, along with guide Brendon Cusick of AAI, via U-Notch. We climbed Mount Sill the next day. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2004 7:14 pm | ||
| Steve Larson | Route Climbed: U-Notch Date Climbed: July, 1982 | |
| Did this with Sara Steck on a day off from our duties with the Palisade School of Mountaineering. Swinging that ole' Chouinard wooden piolet into the ice, and a wierd little Salewa ice hammer. A great route. Ice went all the way to the notch then, haven't seen it several years, but form pictures it looks like rock the last few yards. Pity of that's the case, it had a real kick in the pants finish! | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2004 2:27 am | ||
| Robt | Route Climbed: Clyde Variation Date Climbed: 2 Sept. 04 | |
| PCS trip led by Bob Suzuki | |
| Posted Sep 20, 2004 6:16 pm | ||
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