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| A-Lex | NE Face  | |
| This was my first 14er and first solo mountain excursion. Got super sick and almost barfed, took about 12 hours longer than expected, bivied in a few random places, got temporarily disoriented in the willows of Willow Lake at like 3am, and then woke up to a snow storm the next day! One of my most memorable mountain trips because of all that stuff! | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2009 12:59 pm | ||
| PellucidWombat | Perfect Day Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009 | |
| Dayhike via the NE Face route with 3 others. We caught alpenglow views from Finger Lake, and we never saw a single cloud the entire day. No one else was on the route, and there was negligible wind on the summit. AND we were back down in time for dinner and beer. Perfect! | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2009 5:41 pm | ||
| SJ | Great Climb Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2009 | |
| Really enjoyed this climb, the approach was a bear, especially in the moraine section, but the climb itself (NE Face) is absolutely spectacular. Thanks Jared and John for the great route finding, I'm glad I didn't cash in the chips at 13k. Little long for a day hike, back in LA at 4am... | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2009 4:21 pm | ||
| sierrasclimber | Class 4 | |
| Would call harder than 3rd for sure especially if snow is in center of gully. | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2009 10:27 pm | ||
| mdostby | NE Face Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2001 | |
| Wow! All I can say is "what a day"! | |
| Posted Oct 30, 2008 7:36 pm | ||
| dpsiebert | NE Face Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2001 | |
| We had a long summit day. Didn't get back to the car until 1AM. Got back to Santa Ana at 6AM. Beautiful at Finger Lake. | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2008 12:03 pm | ||
| Sierra Ledge Rat | 1978: NE Face | |
| The summit ridge is awesome! | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2008 12:09 am | ||
| skotty | Good birthday, 11th 14er Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2008 | |
| I think this is the route I did. WIth so many names be tossed around, I can't be so sure. Everything I read made this seem like such an elusive rout finding challange, but to my surprise, I had no touble at all finding and staying on route. Hook right at the tarn to go up the talus slope, at the top, cut left along the obvious ridge that runs parallel to the face of Middle Pal, turn 90 degrees right at the intersecting ridge formed by the moraine and head stragight for the face. Where it deadends at the face, you can either go up a very steep and loos ramp to the right following the extremely obvious red rock, or go left across the top right corner of the left glacier. I chose the later; it was only about 25 feet of low angle sun-cups that I had no problem booting across with trecking poles. When you hit the face, look right and there is an obvious chimney that is easily climbed. From there just go straight up to the summit. At the summit you'll find an awkward north facing crack about chest high that leads to the summit can. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2008 12:47 am | ||
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