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| cluck | Route Climbed: Becky Route Date Climbed: September 5, 2004  | |
| We got a casual morning start from camp at Lone Fir CG and reached the trailhead to find surprisingly few cars. We had all heard horror stories about traffic jams on our intended route, so we raced up the approach trail passing several parties. We arrived at the start of the route around 10:30 to find only a single 2-person party already starting up the route. No waiting for us! We quickly geared up and started the classic 400-foot Becky Route on the southwest flank of Liberty Bell as several other parties began to arrive and take their place in line. This route was also a mix of climbing and scrambling, but the climbing was harder, longer, and more interesting than what we found on SEWS. We all thoroughly enjoyed the entire route and reached the summit around 12:30. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2004 4:18 pm | ||
| Derek Franzen | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: April 1978 & Many Others | |
| With many different SACer's on many different trips, also with Leslie and Kelsi (need to get my son up there too). Fun, easy climb; nice to do mid-week when you have the summits alone. Great rappel anchors now for descent; easily done with a single rope. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2004 9:00 pm | ||
| Gail J | Route Climbed: Southwest Face Date Climbed: July 17, 2004 and Aug. 2002 | |
| My second time, worth doing more than once. Popular and crowded. | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2004 12:43 pm | ||
| Johnhl94563 | Route Climbed: Southwest Face Date Climbed: July 17, 2004 | |
| Started off as a nice climb/hike up the trail gully to the notch between Liberty Bell and Concord till a NOISY party of 3 RAN up the trail to get in front of us and another party of 2 we were walking with. They were the slowest party of 3 I have ever seen. With two parties behind them they still just wanted to stand around and talk about every single move on the climb. They didn't climb much faster. We ended up doing Concord tower while we waited then came back and went up Liberty Bell. The party was still nearing the summit. Hopefully all Washington climbers aren't that rude. Overall however still a good experience thanks to the other politer, Washington climbers that showed up later. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 4:05 pm | ||
| hkutuk | Route Climbed: Beckey route Date Climbed: July 3, 2004 | |
| Since last year's Silver Star climb have been intrigued by all the climbing possibilities in the WA pass area, so finally got to try something there. After a short night at the Blue Lake TH parking area, Jim and I headed to Liberty Bell. On the way up I ended up taking the wrong gully filled with sandy and loose stuff blocked by a nice! big rock. Climbing over this c..p warmed me up. There were only two guys from the town Mazama on the route and they knew their stuff and flew up the route. We leasurely climbed and enjoyed the route. The views from the top are awesome in every direction. The route was very enjoyable quite moderate and not exposed. Came down in three raps and quickly went back to car to go to our next goal NE ridge of Black Peak... | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 11:54 am | ||
| jtschanz | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: July 3, 2004 | |
| Climbed with hkutuk - very fun route! The second pitch was the most interesting, while the third pitch was much easier than we had expected. We only saw two other people on the route the whole day. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2004 11:59 am | ||
| Tom Fralich | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: June 1, 2004 | |
| Climbed with Felix Danila on a cloudy and cold day (after climbing S Early Winter Spire the day before). With the Memorial Day weekend crowd gone, we were the only party climbing anywhere in the Liberty Bell group. Since we knew the approach from the day before, we made very good time to the snow couloir and found good snow conditions. Once on the route, I bypassed some ice in the initial chimney by climbing to the left (about 5.5). Felix led the Pitch 2 chimney and I had fun with the traverse below the roof on Pitch 3. Easy scrambling brought us to the summit. We found the rappel descent very easily. The descent down the snow couloir was the scariest part of the climb, but snow conditions were still good and it went uneventfully. We left Washington Pass feeling very lucky to have climbed two routes in non-ideal conditions. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2004 4:23 pm | ||
| seth | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: July 1994 | |
| Jeremy Person and I climbed the Bell and had a grand ol' time. We're the chuckleheads who left the pages from the Selected Climbs book in register... | |
| Posted Apr 29, 2004 6:28 pm | ||
| Moni | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: April 28, 1979 | |
| With Fred. Way fun. | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2003 8:46 am | ||
| jverschuyl | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: August 22, 2000 | |
| Beautiful climb, with good solid rock. Only wish it was longer. Great views in all directions from the top. | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2003 10:17 am | ||
| leejams | Route Climbed: beckey rte Date Climbed: July, 27 2003 | |
| Nolan and myself up here for the weekend and climbed this rte today. An awesome day and fun rte. Getting rather hot and buggy though and glad we got an early start. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2003 12:59 am | ||
| Sharon | Route Climbed: Beckey Route 5.6 Date Climbed: July 28, 1991 | |
| Partner: Steve Reynolds "Tame" mountain goats descended the notch with us. | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2003 8:50 pm | ||
| wallspeck | Route Climbed: Liberty Crack (50 Classics) Date Climbed: July 1995 | |
| With Phil Dyment, we traversed a snowfield to get to the rock and then being behind another party (imagine that...ha, ha.) we progressed slowly for several pitches. Still we finished in 10 hours and were back to the car just before dark. Surprisingly hard near the end as I recall. Very cool route, but the descent seemed to take forever on the trail. | |
| Posted May 20, 2003 10:55 pm | ||
| MikeB | Route Climbed: Beckey Route Date Climbed: September, 1996 | |
| Cruise. | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2003 5:11 pm | ||
| tymelero | Route Climbed: Becky Route Date Climbed: September 13, 2002 | |
| The North Cascades are beautiful during this time. No crowds. No waiting. Just fantastic climbing. On the approach hike we stood in a heard of mountain goats. I had to chase one away since he was on the climbing route above me. We also saw ptarmigans. The weather was sunny and warm. What a wonderful view at the summit. I will do this again next year. | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2002 6:00 pm | ||
| Fred Spicker | Route Climbed: Beckey Date Climbed: 31 July 2002, 19 June 1982 & 28 April 1979 | |
| 1979 with Monica Spicker 1982 with Paul Bishop 2002 with Tanya Spicker. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2002 5:41 am | ||
| darinchadwick | Route Climbed: Becky route Date Climbed: August 2001 | |
| We also got stuck ropes on the rappel. Otherwise a fun climb. | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2002 5:06 am | ||
| WScottF | Route Climbed: Thin Red Line Date Climbed: July 2001 | |
| Third time's a charm they say. It was my third try and I finally made it. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2001 10:13 am | ||
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