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| mhengst | Climbed from Horton Lakes  Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009 | |
| Left my group and climbed this solo after hiking in to Horton. Left camp on the far side of of the lake at 2 pm and made it back around 7 pm just as it was getting too dark to see. I climbed up the little waterfall right below the lower small lake / puddle but that didn't seem to save much. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2009 5:19 pm | ||
| boyblue | Northwest Slope Date Climbed: May 25, 1986 | |
| Most of this route above Horton Lake was completely snowbound at this time. The upper 1000 feet was frozen hard wind-swept ice. Glad I had my crampons with me. Saved a lot of time. The weather and the view were incredible. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:21 pm | ||
| ChuckO | East Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009 | |
| Great climb with Ken T. Overnight camp at the mine and good weather made for a leasurely wake-up time. Cool temperatures had the snow in excellent condition for both ascent and descent. Wanted to look for PeeWee Croft's paw-print in the summit register, but couldn't find it (the register), maybe buried under snow in a pocket/crack. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2009 6:47 pm | ||
| PrestonRhea | Northwest Slope Date Climbed: May 17, 2008 | |
| Fun climb, still a lot of snow pack there when I climbed it. Finally got to the top and then came down the east chute bypassing the class 4 sections by going down a chute on the south side to traverse to the east chute. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2008 6:05 pm | ||
| hikinedd | From Horton Lakes Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2004 | |
| With Patty Rambert. | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2008 5:57 pm | ||
| kalet | East Couloir Date Climbed: Mar 22, 2008 | |
| Trip Report | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2008 12:45 am | ||
| fossana | SC Day 4 Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2004 | |
| Day 4 of the 2004 Sierra Challenge. Climbed some with random chute with Joe D. Rescued fellow SCer on the descent. | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2007 12:53 am | ||
| mlarkin2002 | Dayhike via N. Slopes from Horton TH Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2004 | |
| Part of '04 Sierra Challenge. Nice climb featuring two interesting events; 1 stranded climber, and 1 impressive mountain lion near Horton Lakes. The climber was able to exit on his own with help from another in our group. The mountain lion.. well, I didn't stay around to see what it did after it chased some deer into a box canyon. I went the other way (quickly). | ||
| Posted Oct 10, 2006 2:03 am | ||
| mthilgard13 | Winter 03 Climb Date Climbed: Jan 12, 2003 | |
| Made it to the top of the Noth Couloir, but simply ran out of time in the day. Is an easy day climb in a dry winter if you leave extra early. Awesome climb. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2006 10:26 pm | ||
| Diggler | Route Climbed: E Couloir variation Date Climbed: 16 July, 2005 | |
| Started at a late 10.42. The first time I'd been near 13k' in awhile, so it took me awhile to get going. Various threatening-looking clouds kept me second guessing my decision to continue as well, until I stashed my hiking poles & crampons at a notch between the main peak & a minor buttress. Decided to start here instead of continuing up the steep garbage chute. Went up the face from aforementioned notch (to the R of a prominent dihedral on the main face), somehow reasoning that I'd eventually meet up w/ the standard route. I didn't, & spent a lot of time route-finding. Sort of zig-zagged up the face on rock from good to crumbly shit. Mostly sustained 4th class, with a few places of 5.2. Heard thunder as I neared the summit, making me quite anxious. Summited to discover that there was a storm over the Owens Valley. Enjoyed the views with a Sierra Nevada Summerfest & a smoke, before going down the standard 4th class route to the notch (rock quality definitely much better here). Incredible views of Humphreys & Tom, & even a good gander over to the Palisades! Wonderful peak. Had a monster standing glissade down, albeit with a swarm of mosquitoes that I couldn't seem to escape. Glissaded all the way down to the bottom of the snow line (maybe a few hundred ft above the mineshaft). Could definitely see coming back to snowboard down! Great day in a beautiful part of the Sierra. | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2005 5:11 pm | ||
| Samantha | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: July 10, 2005 | |
| Gained the summit on a gorgeous day. Had to downclimb the rock section for lack of anything we could rap off w/ confidence. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2005 10:51 am | ||
| forjan | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: June 12, 2005 | |
| Climbed with Al Kwok and socalmtneer. We started early at about 2:30AM from the locked gate and so we had great cramponing on hard snow pretty much all the way to the top of the notch. I climbed the rock section up & down in 45 minutes. Spent 10 minutes on the summit perusing through the summit register and couldn't find Peter Croft's entries (guess I didn't look hard enough). Had a fun glissade down almost to the mineshaft area. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2005 3:59 pm | ||
| rdesota | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: June 6, 2005 | |
| Jim Wosnak and I started out at 8:45 am from the locked gate. Windy most of the way, but still a little warm. Made the top of the couloir by 2:30pm. The 4th class rock climb was enjoyable but very cold and windy with solid 4th class - maybe a couple 5th class moves. Downclimbing and one rappel led us back to the snow. We skiied from the top of the couloir all the way back to snowline - around 10,000 ft. and walked back to the car by 6:00 pm. Great day! | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2005 9:29 am | ||
| Zhenya77 | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: May 1, 2005 | |
| Starting at 3:30 am from the base camp (abounded mining cave) we reached the ledge of the Basin Peak by 8:00 am. The anticipated scramble to the summit ended up being a mixed rock and ice climb with lots of route finding. We reached the summit by 12:00 pm. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2005 10:59 pm | ||
| RSN473 | Route Climbed: E Couloir Date Climbed: May 14, 2005 | |
| Almost continuous snow from the cars made this go a lot easier - until it got soft near top of couloir..........Made it from notch to cars in less than 1.5 hours thanks to an almost uninterrupted glissade. | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2005 12:42 pm | ||
| Misha | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Day (or shall I say night) hiked with Steve Larson. We found great snow conditions in the couloir on the way up. And what great scrambling to the summit!! While downclimbing the rock section, I took a wrong turn and found myself at the top of a cliff marked w/ fresh rappel slings. Not feeling like downclimbing vertical rock in mountain boots, I climbed up a bit, eventually found my way to the notch and plunge-stepped down the couloir. Burgers at Jack's marked a fine end to this great outing! | |
| Posted May 31, 2005 1:00 pm | ||
| Steve Larson | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: May 29, 2005 | |
| Here it is, Memorial Day weekend, and it's cold and windy! What's up with that? After hearing dire predictions of soft snow on this peak we decided to leave the trailhead at midnight. Although the poor snow conditions never materialized, leaving that early (well, okay, we walked away at 1:15 am) was a bonus in terms of getting back with plenty of daylight. The skiing from the notch on down was awesome! The summit block is some fun scrambling. Staying near the arete is more exposed, but definitely more fun. | |
| Posted May 31, 2005 1:39 am | ||
| rhyang | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: 14-May-2005 | |
| Bivied in the mine, then climbed the couloir. Snow was firm until around 7:30am (the sun really started beating down). Climbed the rock section unroped - probably class 4+ with some 5th-class moves thrown in for good measure. Spent a good bit of time getting used to the feel of my boots at that climbing level, downclimbing, pondering, etc. Encountered ice in some of the cracks, making for some interesting moments. 2 guys came up while I pondered, and broke out their rope (37m x 8.5mm double), harnesses, pro, etc. which they were able to use to rap off. Descended the class 2 scramble, then down the chute Doug noted in the route page. Beware of melt-freeze ice / scree near the rock; I eventually elected to stay well clear of that and plunge-step down the snow gully, eventually contouring to the scree / snow gully opposite the couloir. Climbed about 500' or so on scree / talus (nasty), then glissaded the couloir, which by early afternoon was pretty soft. Views were fantastic, and the day was perfect. | |
| Posted May 15, 2005 12:00 pm | ||
| Rinat Shagisultanov | Route Climbed: East Couloir Date Climbed: May 1, 2005 | |
| Ckimbed the chute on the excellent snow with some weather coming upon us.We made ot the top of the chute by 8 am starting from the basecamp on the old mine. My partner and I climber the rock section to the summit in 2.5 hrs. The easier ground was covered with ice and verglass, roped up twice to climb some 5.4 short pitches to the summit. Hiked down the snow chute on the western slope and then down the SE face, hiked up the talus field to the top of the E Couloir again. Great mountain with one of the best views of Sieera I have ever seen in 4 years of climbing here. Looked like we were the first in the 2005 winter/spring season who made it to the summit. | |
| Posted May 2, 2005 1:03 pm | ||
| cottersnow | Route Climbed: Basin Couloir Date Climbed: January 2004 | |
| Great mountain and much more fun in the winter. | ||
| Posted Feb 28, 2005 3:24 pm | ||
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