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| lefty | East Face- right Side  Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009 | |
| Climbed the loose East Face from Darwin col. | |
| Posted Sep 20, 2009 11:56 pm | ||
| jboldt1971 | Fun climb! Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2009 | |
| Climbed West Ridge route with my cousin. Toughest move is transistion from glacier to rock. Lots of loose rock and ice though. | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2009 10:51 pm | ||
| CBoldt1010 | West Ridge Route Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2009 | |
| Awesome peak! | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2009 12:59 am | ||
| granjero | North Couloir Date Climbed: May 30, 2005 | |
| Excellent ski run. Fun climb too, but flying down the face is the dream come true! | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2009 6:54 pm | ||
| sierratrekkin | Darwin and North Lake to South Lake... Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2007 | |
| Started on the N.E. ridge, then ended climbing the majority of the East Face, with my bud "G" (snowhiker). Camped at the base of Darwin Glacier, and continued on around into Evolution Basin, exiting out via Dusy Basin. This was my second trip around this beautiful loop... | |
| Posted Apr 2, 2008 8:05 am | ||
| jimegan | MT DARWIN Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2003 | |
| CLIMBED WITH PAUL DANIEL ALONG WITH MT MENDELL FROM THE DARWIN GLACIER | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2008 8:04 am | ||
| Sheets | North Face | |
| Did the North Face in July as part of a day hike in 12 and half hours car to car. I really enjoyed the climb and came back when the North Face was under ice conditions and soloed it car to car in the fall. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2008 9:30 pm | ||
| glahhg | Evolution Traverse Attempt Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2007 | |
| Summitted via the ridge from Mendel, attempting to do the whole Evolution traverse. Bonked on top and bailed down a random gully on the west side. Next time: more food, lighter pack. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2007 4:25 pm | ||
| mike_lindacher | Smoked Salmon Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2007 | |
| No excuses, no excuses ....... | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2007 11:19 am | ||
| Michael Graupe | West Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2007 | |
| Day 4, 2007 Sierra Challenge. Decided not to go to the Hermit but climbed the W-Ridge with Ryan S. The summit pinnacle is fun. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2007 12:08 pm | ||
| bechtt | West Slope Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2007 | |
| Other than Secor forgetting to mention an additional branching of chutes, this turned out to be a great climb. The summit block turned out to be highly overrated as I found myself standing on it after a quick 5 minutes from the plateau. Well worth it. Peak #5 on JMT adventure. | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2007 5:20 pm | ||
| Deb | North Face Couloir Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Loved this climb! I stayed as much as on ice possible and pulled a little mixed climbing in on the far right side. Summit block was easier to obtain than originally thought and views were stupendous even with impending rain clouds...that came later. Exited via West Ridge. | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2007 3:01 pm | ||
| Dave Daly | Kick N' Axe! Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Had a great time with Debbi and Rick Kent making our way up to the summit of Dawin via the North Face Couloir!! The upper half of the route was turning out to be a fine alpine ice climb (50 degrees in some places....mainly on the right side as the route splits right). Debbi did a fine job making that section of the climb look easy, while Rick and I pleaded with the "Ice God's" to allow our crampons and axes to bite into the ice :P (should have filed those tools before heading out!). What a great finish too.....we exited the right fork and straight up to exposed rock (4th class and probably would have been covered with snow had it not been a dry winter in 2006/2007) and eventually headed to the summit block to top out. I highly recommend this climb! Classic! | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2007 10:23 am | ||
| snowhiker | Kick ass time | |
| I had a killer time on this Mountain with Rob we did the northeast ridge to the traverse then we went up the east face. Thanks Rob | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2007 7:05 pm | ||
| Pantilat | North Face Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2007 | |
| Perfect neve on the face with some alpine ice in the narrow couloir just below the summit plateau. We descended the Northwest Ridge route and then I climbed Mendel via the East Face. 12.5 hour roundtrip from the North Lake parking area. What a sweet route on a sweet mountain! | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2007 1:07 pm | ||
| asmrz | North Face Date Climbed: Oct 26, 1980 | |
| Miguel Carmona and I climbed the North side glacier in October of 1980 while climbing other peaks in and around Darwin/Mendel area. 35-40 degree ice on the face made for a great day of scrambling around with a great partner. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2007 7:26 pm | ||
| dervin | North Face Epic Date Climbed: Nov 23, 2006 | |
| Turkey is for the weak. There is nothing like cold feet, and desolate mountains to make you give thanks. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2007 5:07 pm | ||
| yaknjorgl | west ridge Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2006 | |
| its great climbing a big mountain you can see from town. went up in june looking for ideal north face conditions, but moved too slow and conditions weren't right. My buddy jeff thought he'd just solo up the north face, fortunately i talked him out of it then we watched the point avalanches hammer the north face through the thunder storm on the way out and over lamark col. went back again with jeff and steve, it took along time to get from lamark col to darwin bench and camp. the glacier was icy and blue the next morning, jeffs crampon kept coming off. One of teh best climbs ever. beautiful position on the west ridge, ez moves, fantastic views. we thought the summit block would be tougher than it was. 36 hours car to car. a dream come true. | |
| Posted Jan 2, 2007 6:57 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | North Face (ascent) / West Ridge (descent) Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2006 | |
| Dayhiked this with Rob (below). We weren't sure whether we'd find ice on the North Face, so we hauled along harnesses, short rope, ice screws, etc... this was all just useless training weight. I brought an axe and one tool, but used only the axe in the end. Snow was in perfect condition for climbing, and no more than 45 degrees (maybe a couple of very short bulges that approach 50 degrees) at the steepest parts. The summit block was fun (much easier than it looks at first--we went around to the left), as was the West Ridge descent. Encountered a tricky class 4 move (and some rap slings) before reaching the final class 2 ledges down to the glacier, so we were probably off route on the West Ridge. (Maybe the class 3 route lies further west when starting up from the glacier). In my opinion, at least when it's a snow climb, the North Face is undoubtedly the easiest and quickest route up the peak. Some clouds in the sky, but they never developed into anything more threatening than some light hail on the way back over Lamarck Col. This was a grudge peak for me--I bailed on it when climbing Mendel last year because of threatening weather, and gave up on it in July when I attempted it immediately after flying back from China (major jet lag, and I got off route onto difficult 4th class while trying to gain the West Ridge). Glad to knock this one off. I'd like to go back for the NE Ridge or East Face sometime. | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2006 4:34 am | ||
| forjan | North Face/Glacier Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2006 | |
| Climbed with MichaelJ. Started hiking at 4:47am from our camp (elev ~ 11,800') near the eastern-most lake of Darwin Canyon. We simul-soloed from the base of the glacier to the top in 45 minutes as it was all neve. Reached the summit just before 8:00am. Descended via the west ridge. Back in camp at 10:43am (6 hrs camp-to-camp). | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2006 12:44 am | ||
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