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| MooseTracks | 3rd Class from GSL  Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2007 | |
| Nice scrambling up from Girl Scout lake. Left a gift for the group hike to come a week later. | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2009 10:40 pm | ||
| ridgeline | Secret Route Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2009 | |
| An early winter storm led to a beautiful white ascent from LBL up the "Secret Route". 30+ hikers on the summit for a memorial. Not a dry eye there. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2009 9:48 pm | ||
| KVHiker | Smiley Face Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2009 | |
| Climbed with the Whitney Message Board people. Ran into some hard packed snow so didn't summit. Got some great pictures, and I shall return next year when there is no snow. Hike Photos | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2009 12:16 am | ||
| rhyang | Stemwinder (I, 5.4) Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Laura Molnar; led all pitches. The 5.4 chimney and the class 4 slab traverse were the most stimulating parts of this route. There was some class 4-ish stuff in between on funky rock that we also roped up for - maybe we were off-route there, but it was fun. Otherwise lots of third class. Didn't bother to tag summit. Descended SE couloir (loose). Perfect day. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2009 12:03 pm | ||
| Noondueler | East slope Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2002 | |
| Scrambled up through a ravine full of brush, | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2008 4:03 pm | ||
| kevin trieu | death | |
| came this (pinching forefinger and thumb tightly together) close to death as I came down some class 4/5 stuff with snow/ice, slipped, took a fall (don't remember how long) and landed on a tiny ledge. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2008 4:14 pm | ||
| hikinedd | via Lower Boy Scout Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2004 | |
| Part of a two-day SPS trip with Lone Pine Peak. | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2008 5:59 pm | ||
| lefty | SE Chute Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2006 | |
| Terrific views of the Whitney area. | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2007 12:08 am | ||
| CookieMonster | Is gazing at Whitney better than climbing Whitney? Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| Finally started at 10AM after obtaining a North Fork permit from the Inyo NF. Why do I need a day hike permit if there is no quota an the NF has electronic counters on the trail? Because I need a poop bag for a 6 hour hike? The climb from Lower Boyscout looked worse than it was. I went through the boulder field to the E and then up some class 3, direct to the ridge. Just me and a couple of ravens up top. Followed a use trail to the easier scree chute to the E of my ascent line. It was much easier coming down than I feared. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2007 12:22 am | ||
| MoabPeakBagger | from LBSL Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2007 | |
| climbed up scree and talus from LBSL, then long slog to the summit. Fantastic views. Descended a not-recommended chute to the Whitney trail. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2007 9:36 am | ||
| csundra | From LGSL Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2006 | |
| Never trust a topo from Waugh! Fortunately Brenda and I lived to tell the tale. Fun hike, beautiful from the lake, descent down the funneling scree chutes kinda sucked. | |
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 11:55 am | ||
| Bob Burd | Stemwinder Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Matthew on a beautiful spring day. A highly enjoyable route. Trip Report | |
| Posted May 10, 2007 8:05 pm | ||
| Steve Larson | South side Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2007 | |
| CLimbed the southwest slopes from Mirror Lake. It turned into a bit of a sufferfest, as there was not nearly enough snow to cover the rocks, and just enough to make walking very difficult. Still, a nice summit with views of the entire Whitney basin. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2007 5:23 am | ||
| mlarkin2002 | S. Side from Mirror Lake Date Climbed: May 6, 2006 | |
| Dayhike from Whitney Portal. Went XC from Lone Pine Lk. area, up to Mirror Lk., up slopes, chutes, & snow to summit. Descended N. side to North Fork Lone Pine Ck. | ||
| Posted Oct 10, 2006 2:57 am | ||
| forjan | Stemwinder Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2006 | |
| Climbed Stemwinder with Mark. Left the Portal at 8AM. We made some mistakes on the approach and wasted almost an hour. Back at 3PM (7 hrs roundtrip). ---------- Route Climbed: NW Face Date Climbed: November 15, 2003 A day hike of Thor Peak via the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek. 1) Whitney Portal Road: USFS road closure sign is at the usual 6600-foot elevation point. Snow level on November 15th was around just under 7000 ft. I was only able to drive to the "Meysan Lakes trailhead parking" brown sign (elev ~ 8000 ft). I have a Honda Accord, front 2WD. 2) Saturday, Nov 15th: I woke up at 3:00am and was walking by 3:35am. I got to the Whitney Portal trailhead (elev ~ 8365 ft) by 4:00am. At the Portal, the snow was 1 foot deep. The trail was decently packed with a boot track. I then left the main Whitney trail and hiked up the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek towards Lower Boy Scout Lake (at least what's left of it----LBSL looks more like a pond than a lake now). I took the Ebersbacher Ledges as there wasn't a great deal of snow on them. There was a snow boot track all the way to LBSL. From LBSL, you could still follow a boot track 'til about 10,750 ft. From there on, the boot track was erased by the winds coming down from Upper Boy Scout Lake (UBSL) and Clyde's Meadow. I had to put on crampons in the Clyde's Meadow section just below UBSL. Then, I had to take my crampons off and put on snowshoes at UBSL. Definitely, I had to break trail here. Also, the snow was 2 feet deep starting at UBSL (elev ~ 11,300 ft). I then went up about 200 ft or so and turned left (east) towards the NW slope of Thor Peak. When I got to the base, I took my snowshoes off and started climbing. I'm used to climbing class 3 rock on summer (e.g. Middle Pal's NE face, Whitney's MR, etc), however, climbing class 3 with snow on it turned out to be quite interesting. It took me 50 minutes to reach the summit from the base (800 ft of gain). I climbed mostly towards climber's right of the NW face of Thor. I reached the summit at 11:17am. I stayed there 15 minutes. It was windy and quite chilly. The Owens valley was covered with clouds (I couldn't see Lone Pine). I could only see the very tips (summits) of Mt Inyo , Keynot Peak and New York Butte towards the east across Owens valley. The top of the cloud deck was probably setting around 10,000 ft. I was still able to see LBSL from the summit of Thor Peak though. I descended Thor's summit via the east slope (Thor's summit plateau). You can see 2 prominent rock bands with trees in the middle of the 2 as you descend east. Then, not knowing, I took a snow chute down to the right of the right-most prominent rock band. I actually ended up by Lone Pine Lake. I then took the main Whitney trail down towards the Portal. The main trail (at least from Lone Pine Lake down) was decently packed too with boot tracks. I got to my car at 3:05pm. This hike took me longer than I expected. I expected 9-10 hours roundtrip; however, it ended up being almost 12 hours car-to-car. Breaking trail from UBSL to the NW base of Thor Peak took me quite some time as well as the class 3 section on Thor's NW face. All in all, though, an enjoyable trip. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2006 2:42 am | ||
| jonhersh | North side Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2004 | |
| Climbed North side from lake near UBSL. Tried different chutes on the way up and down. Both probably class 3. | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2006 4:46 am | ||
| derbilly | SE chutes Date Climbed: May 6, 2006 | |
| Good views from the summit. Took a different route than other members for the Burd party; we all seem to have gone up different chutes. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2006 4:23 pm | ||
| mdostby | Southeast Chute Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006 | |
| Fun and quick route. Mostly class 2 maybe a few class 3 moves. Good views of all the surrounding higher peaks. | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2006 8:44 pm | ||
| awagher | Thor Southeast Chute Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006 | |
| Nice quick climb. | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2006 4:45 pm | ||
| cp0915 | Stemwinder Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2006 | |
| Fun route with Tricky Rick (Kent). The chimney was a little awkward and funky, but otherwise, the route was rather fun. Super fast descent down a sandy chute on the east face. | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2006 7:55 pm | ||
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