Ruth Gorge

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Ruth Gorge

by dfrancom » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:20 pm

What peaks have few routes on them? I would love to get in a first ascent somewhere class IV or V. Some ice, and one night bivy. Any ideas?

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by kevin trieu » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:53 pm

dude have you done your homework? have you done Alaskan grade II or III? the west buttress on Denali is only grade II.

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by Steve Gruhn » Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:03 am

Are you asking what lines we've researched and found to be unclimbed so that you can then go out and poach them?

Try doing a wee bit of research on your own. And, by the way, posting stuff on an internet forum doesn't count as doing research. For starters, you might try taking a look at Joe Puryear's article on the Ruth Gorge that appeared in the American Alpine Journal a few years ago.

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may I speak you holiness

by dfrancom » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:01 pm

oh great gods of summitpost "kevin trieu" and "Steve Gruhn" I request your most gracious forgiveness for my thoughtless questions. I fear I might be struck down by thy mighty wrath! I promise to be thy belay slave, if thou will teach but a portion of thy vast knowledge!

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by MichaelJ » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:10 pm

East face of 11,300.

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by kovarpa » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:37 pm

FortMental wrote:There's a cool looking couloir with thin ice that angles out of some seracs high above a bergschrund about a mile into a side valley adjacent, some ways to the gorge proper. It then exits onto an exposed rocky ridge and continues some distance over gendarmes and occasional cornices to a small summit. You can get a sense of it from Google Earth..... (search: Alaska)


yeah, I know which one you mean. it is on the list.


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