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| wyopeakMike | party peak  | |
| I hiked and scrambled up to the summit a few times in the 90's with some friends. One time we brought a boom box and we ate some strange fungi(back in the party days). That was some wild memories of hanging out on the summit turret. | |
| Posted Nov 22, 2009 11:12 am | ||
| Darren9 | high point of the pass | |
| The first time I climbed this peak it was in winter, and I was pleased to see it was so close and lots of options for daytrips of all sorts. A great training peak. | |
| Posted Nov 7, 2009 2:51 am | ||
| fedak | Trail from Castle Pass Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009 | |
| Peak 6 of a 7 peak summer day and the halfway point on my OGUL list. One of the steepest class 1 trails I've been on. Pics are here. | |
| Posted Aug 3, 2009 10:11 am | ||
| WML | snowshoe Date Climbed: Feb 21, 2007 | |
| First trip snowshoeing ever with the old boats that I had...Tubbs Sojourn epic-sized snowshoes. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2009 1:56 am | ||
| ScottyP | Shoulda had skis Date Climbed: May 16, 2009 | |
| Nice climb up. From the road did not look doable with skis. WE WERE WRONG! Great corn as we WALKED down! Next time.. | |
| Posted May 18, 2009 12:12 pm | ||
| SummitJunkie | Triple snow bag Date Climbed: Apr 7, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Basin and Andestite | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2009 6:14 am | ||
| snowflake | Central Chute Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2009 | |
| Left the skis at the bottom and booted up the chute. Good day - but too warm. The snow already turned to soup by 12:30. | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2009 10:46 pm | ||
| toxoplasma | Melty col... Date Climbed: Jan 31, 2009 | |
| but we made it through the slush. | |
| Posted Mar 17, 2009 4:38 pm | ||
| tooantsy | Three times and counting! Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2006 | |
| Reached the summit three times, twice during summer and once at winter in my snowshoes (absolutely love the scrambling towards the end). Can't wait to take our 1 1/2 year old son there again! | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2009 5:21 pm | ||
| squishy | x2 Date Climbed: Jan 31, 2009 | |
| Climbed up the col in the middle with aahz and his wife. The col sucked, it gets too much sun and was soft with rocks. Fun climb anyway. We free soloed to the top of the highest turret, snow wasn't much of a problem. Extremely hot day for January, aahz was baking with a base layer while my uninsulated feet we're cold in the deep snow. We used snowshoes to traverse through the trees and deep snow to the base of the col. Crampons and axe in the col, there was lots of rocks and mixed terrain while post holing and the rock on the turret was more solid than I expected... | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2009 5:38 pm | ||
| justing | East side of summit block Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2009 | |
| Do I still get credit for a winter ascent if it was 40 degrees on the summit? Entertaining scramble while my partner watched from below. Despite the warm weather it was a fun couple of days of snowshoeing. | |
| Posted Jan 20, 2009 2:40 pm | ||
| aahz | Neat scrambling at the top Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008 | |
| I need to get back there in the winter. | |
| Posted Nov 14, 2008 6:59 pm | ||
| Katy Y | twofer Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008 | |
| threefer, if you count frog's leap cliff (or whatever it's called). 10 hours car to car. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2008 11:03 pm | ||
| SummitJunkie | Great climb with family Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2008 | |
| Took my girlfriend and her family from Wisconsin up to the summit. Footing is VERY treacherous most of the way up, BE CAREFULL! Mom slipped about 100 feet from top and banged up her knee but made it down ok. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 4:05 pm | ||
| GlennG | Central Chute on South Face Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2008 | |
| Easy hike on Independence Day, came up the eastern ridge. Was a nice day with Glenn Baker, Captain in the Marine Corps. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2008 3:16 am | ||
| BCL | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: May 31, 2008 Date Climbed: May 31, 2008 | |
| x2. Quick stop while on the way to Basin. | |
| Posted Jun 3, 2008 2:06 am | ||
| kovarpa | Spring ski tour Date Climbed: Apr 12, 2008 | |
| Ski tour to Castle and then over to Andesite with V. Skipped the East Turret, didn't look that appealing in AT boots... | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2008 1:29 pm | ||
| requiem | West Turret Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2008 | |
| from Boreal to Andesite, then traversed the ridge to Castle Peak. gotta get me some snowshoes; those things smoke crampons... | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2008 2:04 am | ||
| squishy | in the snow Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2008 | |
| We climbed castle with crampons to get a feel for them, my 1st time using crampons. Everyone on the mountain was using snowshoes or skis and they were moving much faster. Once the snow melted later in the day we had to keep to the packed trails but it was completely doable. Great views from the top.. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2008 9:45 am | ||
| littlefrantz | Ski tour Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2007 | |
| :) | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2008 11:30 pm | ||
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