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| alpinedon | Post Cosmic Wall  Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2009 | |
| Bobbie P. and I scrambled up the regular route after completing our climb of the Cosmic Wall. Seemed mandatory. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2009 3:38 am | ||
| Wallylongridge | Reg. Route Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2009 | |
| Up the Stairs down the Face. Nice views of Shasta & the Cosmic wall. | |
| Posted Jun 10, 2009 10:42 am | ||
| Bubba Suess | Too sick to finish | |
| I was sick the whole way up and took the liberty of leaving my lunch on the trail. I did not want to tackle the stairs in the that condition. | |
| Posted May 28, 2009 9:36 pm | ||
| edevart | Reg Route Date Climbed: Oct 22, 2008 | |
| Great, quick hike in a quiet and empty State Park. On the way to fish the October Caddis on the Upper Sac. Golden leaves galore and great views of Shasta. | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2008 8:59 pm | ||
| cdog | fun in the sun: July 2002 | |
| had a great hike up to the dome with my girlfriend Amy, via the dog route | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2008 1:06 am | ||
| Adamus | Regular Route Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2007 | |
| Very hot, but it was worth it. The whole route was fun. The stairs were fairly exposed, but very solid. A good break from driving. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2007 5:24 am | ||
| vancouver islander | Regular route Date Climbed: May 7, 2007 | |
| What a breathtaking location! Uninterrupted views in all directions. Soloed up and down the "slabs" to the right of the "stairs" with chance-met "Sal" from Redding. Sal had never done anything like this before and was "willing to give it a go" as he said. Kudos - for a first-timer he did really well. However, without the comfort of a rope, neither of us fancied the exposure on the stairs. The info on this page does the author great credit. It's accurate, informative and useful. My only comment would be to rate the "slabs" solid 4th Class rather than 4-. There are a couple of friction moves involved that are quite challenging, especially when downclimbing. The approach took about 1.5h and the climb half an hour each way. I wish we had trails like this on Vancouver Island. You guys down there are spoiled. | |
| Posted May 9, 2007 4:11 pm | ||
| cluck | Good choice for a rainy day? Date Climbed: May 19, 2006 | |
| With TC after being weathered off Shasta at the Ranger Station. It was very wet. Cool and windy. Didn't even see the route until we were hiking out. Wet slab climbing in hiking boots wasn't the greatest in the rain. Rock shoes or sticky rubber approach shoes would have been much better. Cool area and hope to come back to visit with rope and rack in 2007. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2007 2:25 pm | ||
| 96avs01 | Consolation Prize Date Climbed: May 11, 2005 | |
| Decided to climb Castle Dome on our way home from a climbing trip in Bend, OR. Figured we needed to succeed on something after having to abort our plans in Bend due to an unexpected late season snow storm. Views of Shasta were amazing. | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2007 3:20 pm | ||
| highice | rap off the top | |
| did the 5.9 n. face, plus two 5.8 west face routes. had to give my novice friend a rush by letting her have a turn at rapping off the summit into open air. she got pretty confident and started practicing pendulums. we tied two ropes together in order to get to where you're freehanging away from the face by 20 ft. and feel totally exposed. good test to see if you're wall material!we jugged back up the line, since the ropes obviously don't make it to the ledges. | |
| Posted Feb 5, 2007 10:08 pm | ||
| PellucidWombat | Route Climbed: Regular Route Date Climbed: Feb 11, 2006 | |
| I climbed this peak with Matthew Holliman after bailing on a nearby technical climb. I chose the class 4 friction over the class 3 stairs on the ascent, and I was wishing that I downclimbed it too as the class 3 downclimb had me quite nervous! | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2006 12:32 pm | ||
| thundercloud | Regular Route Date Climbed: May 19, 2006 | |
| Fun little hike and climb. Consolation prize after being turned away from our planned Mt. Shasta climb, due to poor weather. Lots of cool stuff nearby to go back for another day. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2006 5:49 pm | ||
| Misha | Great scramble! Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006 | |
| After climbing Cosmic Wall, I felt an urge for more scrambling. So I set off for the Regular Route of Castle Dome. Since I had only a faint idea of where the route goes, it seemed like a great (if short) adventure. Not having the route beta turned out to be good. Instead of a sandy Class 3 gully, I went straight up a 5.4-5.6 crack. Doing it in trailrunners and ropeless gave a necessary adrenalin boost to the system. As I topped out above that crack, I discovered the regular route. Hence, I was spared from a sketchy downclimb :). Surprisingly good climbing! | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2006 11:43 pm | ||
| Completebum | quiet Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2006 | |
| Fun scrambing in a gorgeous area. I can't wait to come back as a real climber and try some of the technical routes in the area. | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2006 3:02 pm | ||
| SeanReedy | Route Climbed: Regular Route Date Climbed: April 1, 2005 | |
| I climbed to the base of the dome several times as a child on family hikes and made it to the summit a couple of times in my late teens. It was great to be back after a decade away and to bring my buddy Morgan along on his first time up. This was my first experience of being early enough in the Spring to hike through about a half mile section of snow on the way to the base of the dome. | |
| Posted Jul 27, 2005 4:52 am | ||
| uap304 | Route Climbed: Regular Route Date Climbed: August 1998 | |
| Oh, those were the days. Back in high school, climbing everything in sight without a care or an inch of rope. Up on Castle Dome I learned what exposure truly meant. It never fails to blow the minds of car mates on trips down I-5..."you've been on top of THAT?!" Lots of fun. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2005 11:48 am | ||
| annaleiserabinek | Route Climbed: Regular Route Date Climbed: April 24, 2004 | |
| Drove down from Corvallis for a day hike with my very best partner, Cornvallis. Great views of Shasta, Lassen, Hubris, and the entire Castle Crags area. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2005 6:41 pm | ||
| Dennis Poulin | Route Climbed: Crags Trail Date Climbed: 20 July 2002 | |
| This is a great hike. Good conditioning. Don't climb the dome if it is wet or icy, it is a long drop off the east side. Indian Springs has good water and is a good rest stop. | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2005 9:56 pm | ||
| k2link | Route Climbed: Crags Trail Date Climbed: March 31, 2005 | |
| Hiked to the base of Castle Dome. Saw no one else on the trail all day. There was a fair amount of snow on the last bit of the trail, and much was melting, so the granite was pretty wet, and care had to be taken coming down. My first visit to this park, but certainly not my last! | |
| Posted Apr 6, 2005 5:51 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: Regular Route Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2005 | |
| This is an awesome scramble with some thrilling exposure and incredible views. I also spent a while playing around on the slabs next to the "stairs"--fun face climbing. Also tagged it on Feb 11, 2006 as a consolation prize after bailing off Six Toe Rock. Even less than a year later, it seemed much less thrilling than I remembered from that first visit. Funny how time and experience changes perceptions. | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2005 10:59 pm | ||
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