Middle Palisade Summit Register Can Lost
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:39 am
I climbed Middle Pal via the east face yesterday. Upon summiting I found the summit register was inside a rusty old coffee can. Interestingly the Sierra Club register top was also in this can. After looking around a bit I found the Sierra Club register "tube" wedged between some rocks in a hard to reach place. Being thin and lanky I managed to wriggle in and grab (it was empty) it with the intention of bring it back up to the register location...
However things didn't work out quite so well. While climbing back around to the summit I set the can down for a second so that I could use both hands to steady myself as I lowered down to a small ledge. I must have set it down in a bad spot because the next thing I knew the can was flying down the east face! I assume the can came to rest either somewhere on the east face, the clyde glacier, or middle pal glacier. I looked for it on the way down but did not find it.
If anyone is heading up middle pal from the east keep an eye out for it. My bad for dropping the ball (or can, quite literally) on this one, hopefully someone will find it and return it to the summit. Also the register could use a new notebook if anyone is feeling generous.
However things didn't work out quite so well. While climbing back around to the summit I set the can down for a second so that I could use both hands to steady myself as I lowered down to a small ledge. I must have set it down in a bad spot because the next thing I knew the can was flying down the east face! I assume the can came to rest either somewhere on the east face, the clyde glacier, or middle pal glacier. I looked for it on the way down but did not find it.
If anyone is heading up middle pal from the east keep an eye out for it. My bad for dropping the ball (or can, quite literally) on this one, hopefully someone will find it and return it to the summit. Also the register could use a new notebook if anyone is feeling generous.