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| bcd | Laurel Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2004 | |
| Up the N Ridge for a fun ride down the NE Gully | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2007 3:37 am | ||
| cp0915 | NE Gully  Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2006 | |
| An excellent route. A great finish to a fantastic Sierra weekend with Rick K. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2006 3:38 pm | ||
| The Chief | Great for Training! Date Climbed: Jul 1, 1974 | |
| I was first introduced to the Bloody-Laurel Combo back in 74'. I do it at least three times a year now...best time so far is 4 hours and 25 minutes from the bottom of the Laurel Lakes Jeep Trail. Will be puting up some FA's the Summer of 06' on the NE Lower Tears. There are three to five nice lines that appear will go at moderate grades of 8 through 9+ maybe low 10's. Will let you all know. ***BEWARE*** The Jeep trail has deteriorated drastically the past two years and last word is the USFS hasn't the funds to repair it. So, if you plan on driving up to Laurel Lakes, be sure that your vehicle is definitely a "HIGH CLEARANCE" one. | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2006 2:59 pm | ||
| dustytrail | Route Climbed: north face Date Climbed: june 10 2004 | |
| Done this one numerous times | ||
| Posted Nov 8, 2005 7:00 pm | ||
| tdoughty | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: February | |
| Perfect neve in gully, rock slabs covered with water ice. A little post holeing to summit ridge. With James Barnett. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2005 1:32 pm | ||
| Finley | Route Climbed: NE gully (roughly--I think) Date Climbed: October 7, 2005 | |
| This was a day trip from Las Vegas (6AM--midnight including drive time). I was the weak link of the group of 3 and was so slow ascending that we descended after reaching the ridge at 11,050 ft. (GPS reading) north of the peak. | |
| Posted Oct 11, 2005 8:23 pm | ||
| aleasure | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: 8-27-05 | |
| A fun scramble. Did it in approach shoes 4.5hrs round trip. The highlight being tunneling under the snow. Good rock and views. I would recommend scree gaitors for the descent. | ||
| Posted Aug 29, 2005 6:56 pm | ||
| Rick Kent | Route Climbed: SW Slope Date Climbed: July 24, 2005 | |
| NE Gully sounds fun, but this was only a side-trip and I simply bagged it via the SW slope on my way down from Bloody Mtn. The slope is mostly loose and unpleasant crap. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2005 7:36 pm | ||
| cottersnow | Route Climbed: Mendenhall Route Date Climbed: 2004-2005 | |
| Great route with pretty good rock. Awesome for training and trying to match Croft's 3 hour car to car time. | ||
| Posted Feb 28, 2005 3:22 pm | ||
| plume | Route Climbed: Northeast Face/ Gully Date Climbed: August 20, 1982 | |
| Soloed this at age 13. | |
| Posted Feb 13, 2005 2:41 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2004 | |
| An unusual and highly worthwhile scramble--part canyoneering, part climbing! We didn't use the rope, but one or two of the friction slabs higher up were steep enough that once I'd started up them I began to think that maybe I should at least have changed from my boots into my rock shoes... | |
| Posted Nov 21, 2004 8:48 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: Sept 24, 2004 | |
| Matthew and I climbed this as a warm-up for Clarence King on an absolutely beautiful fall day. We carried rope and gear but used none of it, climbing in our boots. Highly enjoyable scrambling. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2004 1:47 am | ||
| bobpickering | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: September 26, 2004 | |
| I wanted to do this route as soon as I read Croft's description. In early season, it had snow much later than I expected. Then I broke my foot and had to take 7 weeks off. Last weekend, the weather looked awful, so I found something else to climb (Mt. Goode). Today, it finally came together. I forgot my maps and route descriptions, so I had to wing it. I made a major screw-up on the approach, but the actual climb went very well: 2:15 from the beginning of the rock climbing to the summit. The upper several hundred feet of the gully looked like mostly loose scree. I followed a rib that looked a little more difficult on slightly better rock and ended up maybe 200 feet to the right of the summit. The variation was class 2 and 3, and I don't regret doing it. | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2004 10:18 pm | ||
| jeffn | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: August 20, 2004 | |
| Climbed with thall23, her first 5th class climb. Never roped up. We have another idiot climber with us. | ||
| Posted Aug 21, 2004 9:03 pm | ||
| thall23 | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: August 20, 2004 | |
| Got off route right, then off route left on the way up and then bitched about Croft's descent information all the way down. Nice climb, though. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2004 8:59 pm | ||
| forkliftdaddy | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: August 10, 2004 | |
| Scrambled the route in approach shoes. Easy, fun, and more climbing than I expected. Summit was great. Beautiful views and very still. Descending the ridge was beastly hot, and then I missed the best descent gully. Took about 7.5 hours, round trip. | ||
| Posted Aug 16, 2004 1:52 pm | ||
| asmrz | Route Climbed: Northeast Gully, 5.2 Date Climbed: August 5th, 2004 | |
| Penelope May and I climbed the (IN) famous NE Gully of Laurel Mountain based on Peter Croft's comments in his book "The Good, The Great and The Awesome". The line is pretty easy to follow as many old, classic lines go. The rock is only good in the very center of the drainage, if you move away from it just a few feet, you are in a choss. But the route is almost 3,000 feet long and most of it at 4th and easy 5th class. We did not use rope and it took us about 6 hours to approach the climb and climb the route. We were slowed on the descent by some confusing elevation points that conflicted with map and written info and it took us 3 hours to get back to Convict Lake for a RT of 9 hours. I would not reccommend this as something great to do, but it is a long route in a great visual setting. The slate type of rock and the coloring of the faces makes the Mt. Morrison area very pretty. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2004 2:42 pm | ||
| tiogap | Route Climbed: NE Gully Variation Date Climbed: July 10,2004 | |
| Fun and varied climb | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2004 7:57 pm | ||
| Clydascope | Route Climbed: NE Gully/Face Variation, from Laurel Canyon Road and Convict Lake Date Climbed: Many | |
| Have climbed this peak several times, three ascents of the NE Face - once in winter: another time I skied it from Mammoth Lakes with wooden edgeless track skis and troll bindings, mountain biked up Laurel Canyon once and hiked the summit from the road, traversed from Bloody too, a couple bushwacks from Convict Lake. | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2004 12:16 pm | ||
| Lara | Route Climbed: NE Gully Date Climbed: August 2003 | |
| There’s nothing like the dirtpile rock of our route up Laurel Mtn to make one worship Sierra granite. Washed in the light of the setting sun, beautiful views of Convict Lake and the surrounding peaks helped distract me from my growing concern about sleeping on a tiny ledge (only big enough for one). Happily, D and I finished climbing just before dark. The adventure continued as we still had hours of route finding ahead of us as we hiked down the back side in the dark. An exhausting and fantastic trip. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2004 6:49 pm | ||
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