
| It wasn't easy to pick out the summit block when approaching from the west. My first guess involved some mildly spicy scrambling, followed by what appeared to be an unclimbable block--at least from my vantage point. I contoured around to the south to approach it from another direction, found an intervening block that was even higher, and was delighted to find that was the summit. If the summit block really is class 3, it has to be the easiest class 3 I've climbed in the Sierra.
Traversed over to Striped (tedious thanks to a few inches of fresh powder covering all the talus), and back down to the Taboose Pass TH. Not a dayhike I'm likely to repeat any time soon. |