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| mrolph | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | A nice area! I'm thinking about heading to Ireland Lake this weekend to climb one or all of Parsons, Simmons, and Amelia Earhart. Great photos. Martin | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2003 9:45 am | ||
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| mpbro | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Hey Martin, Glad to hear you'll be getting up there. Seems like that area has the same appeal for both of us. Parsons absolutely transfixed me. I always wanted to climb it from the north ridge. For one, it seems like the only way across that range. It looked viable on a topo, but in person, WOW, was it ever imposing. None of the photos I've posted here illustrate that fact. I'll see if I have some better ones. The toughest obstacle on Parsons' N ridge appears to be an incredible tower. On this map it's about a quarter of a mile south of Peak 11500'. Whereas Pk. 11500' is light granite, the tower is much darker (i.e., gabbro or diorite or something similar). It looks really tough, but the rock is heterogenous enough that it might go class 3. After the tower, there appears to be a long catwalk, which may or may not have technical sections. It seems like a wild adventure! I hope you get out there and do it. -Morgan | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2003 11:20 am | ||
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| mrolph | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Hi Morgan - My tentative plan is to climb up the saddle to the south of Parsons and take a look at the traverse over to Simmons before deciding to whether to try Simmons, Parsons or both. The entire east face of the ridge from Parsons to Fletcher looked rather imposing to me! The west side (viewed from Vogelsang Peak) looks fairly easy but a bit of a slog. Martin | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2003 11:55 am | ||
| Dave K | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Very good page! | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2003 6:19 pm | ||
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| mpbro | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks, David. You've probably been around here before, but it's a neat area... -Morgan | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2003 4:16 pm | ||
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