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| gjonbelay | SE Face July 18 1999  Date Climbed: Jul 18, 1999 | |
| Climbed Whorl and Mattehorn on the same weekend with a group of PCSers. Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 24, 2009 4:32 pm | ||
| BCL | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2008 Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2008 | |
| Solo day hike out of Twin Lakes. Fun climb. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2008 12:26 pm | ||
| steve_hiebert | SE Face Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008 | |
| We dayhiked it from Twin Lakes crossing Horse Creek Pass. The routefinding was a bit tricky. I think we crossed from Chute #1 to Chute #2 too high but we were (surprisingly) following another party. From Chute #2 to Chute #3 through the chockstone, and then to the summit, the climb was fascinating. | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:02 pm | ||
| derbilly | Sierra Challenge 2007 Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2007 | |
| Clmbed SE face in a sleep-deprived state and still managed to pick up the formidable Horse Creek Peak as a bonus! | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2007 6:12 pm | ||
| bechtt | SE Face Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2007 | |
| With the 2007 Sierra Challenge gang | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2007 11:59 am | ||
| Travis_ | SE Face with Sierra Challenge Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2007 | |
| Climbed Whorl and Matterhorn with a great group of guys from the Sierra Challenge. See Trip Report | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2007 4:07 pm | ||
| metasyn11 | SE Face Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2007 | |
| Climbed with a contingent of 6 as part of the 2007 Sierra Challenge (most, or some at least, did the Doodad). Fun scrambling in the chutes and particularly through the chockstone. Grand views. | |
| Posted Aug 3, 2007 6:15 pm | ||
| Alpinist | SE Face Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2006 | |
| Solo climbed the SE Face from Miller Lake during a 10-day backpacking trip from Leavitt Meadows to Toulumne Meadows. Beautiful and solitary hike up Spiller Canyon from the PCT (12-miles RT). I managed to get off route and climbed left of the first chute on a rib that semed more like Class 4 than Class 3. I reached the ridgetop well left of the chockstone, realized my mistake and had to do some low Class 5 climbing to transition from the west side of the ridge back to the east side. (Photo here.) I finally found the chockstone and finished the climb on route. If you find a pair of sunglasses on the summit, those are (were) mine. Trip report. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2006 4:00 am | ||
| Michael Graupe | Route Climbed: SE face Date Climbed: Fall 2002 | |
| Beautiful dayhike out of Twin Lakes. Tagged Matterhorn Peak on the return as well. | |
| Posted Oct 19, 2005 9:52 pm | ||
| soslaw | Route Climbed: South East Face Date Climbed: September 17, 2005 | |
| Soloed Saw no other climbers. Given the good class 3 climbing its surprising that Whorl does not see more traffic. Based on the summit register, I was only the third party summiting this year. While the mountain is daunting when seen from below, the three chute system ascending the SE face makes the route feasible. The challenge is to enter in the correct chute and then to traverse into chutes 2 and 3. Like a lot of climbers I started too high and gained chute 2 which has better rock but is more difficult in the beginning than chute 1. Chute 1 is to the climber's left and has more talus and scree. SP's route description is excellent and one need only be patient in traversing to the south of the mountain to gain the entry chute number 1. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2005 12:17 pm | ||
| Samantha | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: October 10, 2004 | |
| Great climb, perfect weather! Thanks to MWetters for the great routefinding and encouragement. They should really just make one trail out there--it would be way less damaging to the environment, and a lot easier on climbers. :-) | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2004 12:35 pm | ||
| HikeMonkey | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: 22 August 2004 | |
| Monty, Mike Riepe, and I climbed the SE Face route yesterday, after camping out near Horse Creek Pass. The weather was gloomy but the climb was fun. Thanks to Richard Steele for the excellent route description. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2004 11:46 am | ||
| RSN473 | Route Climbed: SE face Date Climbed: October 1999 | |
| Climbed with my buddy Myron - fun route! Especially liked the "secret stairway" thru chockstone. Saw golden Eagle soaring on ridge during ascent | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2004 10:30 am | ||
| Robt | Route Climbed: Chockstone Rte. Date Climbed: Oct. 11, 2003 | |
| Skip the trip reports; the best part of this peak is the quirky route and working through it "on sight". | |
| Posted Nov 5, 2003 4:45 pm | ||
| steeleman | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: August 1, 2003 | |
| My 2d attempt, this time successful trip report here | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2003 4:21 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2003 | |
| Wow, what a fantastic peak! Perhaps my favourite mountain to date... this was like a breath of fresh air after a Stanton-Virginia slog the day before. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2003 1:37 am | ||
| Misha | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: August 31, 2003 | |
| Another peak, another epic. Etsuko (my girlfriend), Matthew and I started this as a day-hike from the Twin Lakes parking lot at 6am. Weather forecasters predicted mostly sunny day with 20% precipitation. In my opinion, these people should be "shot" :). Approximately half way up, clouds rolled in and it started raining. At this point, Etsuko decided that getting soaked and cold (we only brought very light clothes with us) is not worth it for her and she turned back while Matthew and I (with the trash bag over me for the water protection) pressed on hoping for the best. As we got to the Horse Creek pass, weather seemed to hold and improved for the better. Hopeful, we continued to traverse around the peak in order to get into the chutes. I was relieved to finally start climbing after the long approach. Chute #1 was quite loose and not very fun. As we were reaching its top, it started raining again. This time rain was short and we resumed into the chute #2. This is where the real fun begins! We quickly made our way to the chute #3 on excellent rock, found the 'easy sandy traverse' (per Bob Burd) and squeezed ourselves under the infamous chokestone. As we gained the summit ridge, weather turned really bad again. We waited for a half an hour under the hailstorm and thunder in the narrow chimney ~100 feet below the summit. Fortunately weather gave us a chance and cleared out for 15 minutes, just enough for us to tag the summit and run back down. After getting hailed/rained on (again) near the Horse Creek pass on the way down, we safely made it back to the car at 7:30pm, with the last light. FUN! | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2003 12:16 am | ||
| Joe Hanssen | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: August 17 '02 | |
| This was a more impressive peak then I originally thought it would be. The route (SE chute #2 - class 3) and summit were very fun. Climbing through the chockstone was a blast. 2002 Sierra Mountaineers Challenge | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2002 6:57 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: SE Face Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2002 | |
| Day 1 of the 2002 Mountaineers Challenge. Dayhiking from Twin Lakes, 5 of us made it to the summit under beatiful weather (though the views were a bit smokey) in a little over 6hrs. Exciting class 3 climbing up chute #2 since we didn't traverse far enough to reach the class 2 chute #1. Trip Report. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2002 6:12 pm | ||
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