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Cirque of the Towers > Wolfs Head > Climber's Log|
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| Misha | East Ridge  Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2009 | |
| Very cool climb on a beautiful sunny day. Probably the hardest 5.6 I've ever climbed. "Piton Pitch" got my attention. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2009 5:46 pm | ||
| marauders | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2009 | |
| Approached via Tiger Tower gully, the grassy ledges approach was too wet. Superb climbing, although the weather caused some stress. Fortunately it didn't rain until we reached the col on the descent. Great climb overall. | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2009 4:57 pm | ||
| fowweezer | E Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009 | |
| Climbed the East Ridge after climbing over Tiger Tower to access it. The climb took longer than I expected but the climbing itself was easy. A bit stressful with looming weather, but this was a nice way to finish off 3 days in the Cirque. | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2009 5:31 pm | ||
| PocketsOfBlue | E Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2009 | |
| Climbed the East ridge after assuming it was a grade III. Had an epic descent, getting back to camp around 1:30am... Absolutely stellar climb though -- incredible exposure, and its position is unmatched in the Cirque | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2009 6:23 pm | ||
| sunniemh | Fabulous | |
| I loved it! Most rewarding climb yet! Hope to do it again someday. | |
| Posted Dec 4, 2008 12:04 am | ||
| dfrancom | Great | |
| The best climb I've done yet | |
| Posted Oct 20, 2008 2:13 pm | ||
| pyerger | Great climb | |
| I loved this climb. You get to make every kind of climbing move in the book. The weather was great. One of the best climbs I have done. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2008 11:12 pm | ||
| GCutforth | Great Day, | |
| We had a great day. I loved weaving through the summit blocks and the wild exposure moving up the ramp earlier on. We were back in camp by 12:30 pm leaving enough time for me to run up the Skunk Knob. Is that deja vu? | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2007 1:59 am | ||
| AJones | Fun Day Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2006 | |
| We had a great day in perfect weather and were back at camp by 12:30 p.m. - my partner even climbed the Skunk Knob that afternoon; not me, I slept. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2007 6:36 pm | ||
| climbhighnow | nice Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2007 | |
| great weather day, amazing exposure and exciting hand travereses made this one of my favorite climbs yet! | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2007 6:27 pm | ||
| gato | East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| Glorious rock, excellent exposure, and sweet simul-climbing led us up this cruiser in 2hrs from the point we roped up. Tasty! | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 11:48 pm | ||
| b. | East Ridge Cruise Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| Second time on the East Ridge, two hours from the rope up at the saddle, then we hiked out that afternoon. We rapped a couloir to the southwest instead of the normal descent. Only recommended if you're bored. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 6:48 pm | ||
| YetiBauer | Young Luck | |
| A testimate to my luck as a young man. At the time I did not understand layering or insulation nor did I realize how stupid little I had brought (snickers bar, quart of water, a windproof but non water proof parka) I am lucky the weather held! | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2006 2:39 am | ||
| asmrz | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 18, 2005 | |
| Penelope May and I climbed the fabulous East Ridge in August of 2005. We found this route absolutely wonderful climbing, with all the features that "a real" classic should have. Memorable climb. | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2005 4:17 pm | ||
| iceisnice | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: Summer '99 | |
| Amazing.....simply amazing. | |
| Posted Oct 3, 2005 10:23 pm | ||
| Jolee | Route Climbed: Wolf's Head Date Climbed: August 1999 | |
| This is hands-down my favorite 5.6 mountain route. I climbed it with bthere on a 2-month trip to the winds. The exposure is amazing, the rock is even better. Highly recommended! | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2005 1:13 am | ||
| dunsum | Route Climbed: couple Date Climbed: August '94 | |
| East Ridge, 7/22/94, 8/23/00 South Face, Right Center (the 10b route), 8/19/96 | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2005 4:52 am | ||
| poorboy44 | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 2002 | |
| The sidewalk to the sky is amazing... | |
| Posted Nov 2, 2004 5:52 pm | ||
| forkliftdaddy | Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August, 2003 | |
| Super classic with huge exposure. For a shorter day, leave the rope on your back most of the time. We pitched out too much of the route, and so it took us all day. Also, my partner didn't like the chimney bit and led us over the ridge on a thin hands crack, neglecting to place any pro for my downclimb. Yikes! Descent was a bit convoluted, but it was still a blast. Later in the week we watched some folks have an epic on this route -- headlamps high on the ridge line. Start early, climb fast. | ||
| Posted Aug 16, 2004 2:30 pm | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: East Ridge (...of course) Date Climbed: August 4, 2004 | |
| Shirley and I did this during our 5-day stay in the Cirque. We did this after taking a day's break (mostly to dry the ropes and junk) following our climb of NE Face of Warbonnet. Woke up at about 3:30am and were hiking by 4am. Less then an hour later we were standing under the "class 4 ledges" (this is an option suggested by Kelsey guide and not the 50 Classics book). Did the ledges roped. These were I think the crux of the whole climb - real nasty "climbing" on what is more realistically a ~5.4 terrain (water dripping on you, slippery grass....really sh***y place). The weather was not looking up with dark clouds covering the western sky. Got to the base of the slab (beginning of E. Ridge proper) and felt a bit of a drizzle. The thought of committing to ~10 ridge pitches did not look appealing. Backed off, rapped back to the "snowpatch" ledge. As we were setting up the next rap, the sky began clearing!! Amazingly, within 15 minutes all the clouds were gone and we saw blue skies and sunshine. This was too hard to pass up!! Another party (guide + client) came up and decided they were going to go for it. We decided to go for it too. Reached the "flat" portion of the ridge in two pitches including one long simul-climb pitch up easy terrain. From there we mostly did "standard" pitches with a few sections of simulclimbing to stretch the rope a bit. Wonderful route!! The hand traverses LOOKED intimidating but turned out to be quite easy once on them. The weather window kept until we did our last rap back to the notch bet. Wolfs Head and Overhanging Tower....then all hell broke loose with lightning and thunder.....Fed up with the weather, hiked out next day and drove to Devil's Tower. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2004 12:28 pm | ||
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