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| Dundeel | Gypsy Fortunes  Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2009 | |
| With Eric and Dennis. Very little snow. Great hike inspite of the rain. 31 WA cohp down, 8 to go. | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2009 12:03 pm | ||
| Dennis Poulin | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2009 | |
| With Eric and Ken. Rained on us on the way down. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2009 1:23 pm | ||
| ericnoel | Standard Route Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2009 | |
| Fairly straightforward. Getting around to making the long drive out to the peak is probably the crux. We did sidehilling rather than go up and over various knobs and for the most part that worked out well with faint bootpaths to be found for much of the route. | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2009 12:32 pm | ||
| Ridgerunner755 | SW Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| I started up the trail, but instead of following it all the way to the ridge top, I cut directly from the trail to the saddle north of Point 6617, probably the same shortcut as in the other climber's logs. This was easy, as there are game trails heading up the small ridges to the saddle. From there I climbed over the top of Point 6853, around the west side of Point 7177, around the east side of Point 7033 above Watch Lake, then on to the summit of Gypsy. Took pretty much the same route on the way back. I climbed on my birthday with my dog Packer. I had to walk the last 3/4 mile of road to the trailhead because there were several trees across the road. It was a nice sunny day, but pretty smoky. Took a total of 3 1/2 hours. | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2007 8:17 pm | ||
| spotly | Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2004 | |
| Climbed with Rob but got fogged in above the lake. Decided to bail and came back the next day with Teri (spousal unit 1) and made the summit in great weather. The traverse west of point 7100 kinda sucked. Avoided it going in (over the top) but dealt with it coming back. A fun romp along the ridge. | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2007 3:51 pm | ||
| supreme744 | Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2005 | |
| Climbed the Southwest Ridge amidst a two day sweep of the three highest points in N.E. Washington. Great views of Canadian peaks and the Idaho Selkirks. A little brainstorming led our group to another future endeavor. Locate and bushwack into the Idaho/Wash/Canada confluence. Remote, but doable. Glad to see another Inland Empire peak page. | |
| Posted Apr 14, 2006 2:21 pm | ||
| nebben | Route Climbed: SW ridge Date Climbed: july 22, 2005 | |
| Blowing rain, mosquitoes when the wind stopped, a rock that I tried to knee in accidentally (that I got a phillips head screwdriver stab mark from), almost no view from the top...highpointers are weird! Nice workout though, going over and around all the bumps on the ridge. | |
| Posted Oct 21, 2005 10:33 am | ||
| bugfix | Route Climbed: SW ridge Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2004 | |
| It was 100 degrees in Spokane that day, but oh so nice up on top. Looking down at the east ridge was an awesome sight. I also took the "shortcut" coming down, and I ran into a young bull moose, hanging out near Leola Cr. I came to within 50 yds of him, and he just watched me walk by. This was a good test of my new Montrail boots - very nice. | ||
| Posted Aug 31, 2004 10:09 pm | ||
| Dean | Route Climbed: SW Ridge Date Climbed: July 26, 2003 | |
| Bob gave a good description of our hike / climb of Gypsy Peak in the previous summit log entry. I have a lot of pics to add but my computer is down at the moment and I don't have access to them. One thing though, this peak is in grizzly bear country and you kind of keep that in the back of your mind when you're going through the brush like Bob and I did on our way out (the shortcut). Great peak. I have a couple of interesting stories to tell about Abercrombie peak across the way but I'll save that for another time. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2003 10:42 pm | ||
| rfbolton | Route Climbed: SW Ridge Date Climbed: July 26, 2003 | |
| Fellow county highpointer and SummitPost member Dean and I met in Metaline Falls early in the morning, ate breakfast at a great little café in town, then headed up to the TH. We had intended to meet up with friends at the TH, but they gave up on us due to the heat and the bugs and started up without us. They didn't go all the way to Gypsy Peak, and we met them on their way back. Then we continued to the summit. On the way back we took a shortcut into the Leola Creek basin, saving significant time. I have much enjoyed the three NE WA county highpoints - Copper Butte, Abercrombie Mountain, and Gypsy Peak. For more information on county highpointing, click here. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2003 9:52 pm | ||
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