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xDoogiex wrote:Awesome! Congratulations! Yes, soon you will be able to tackle mt. Sunflower.

Interresting to note that the highest mountain you've done is a 6,000er that's a short walk from the parking lot to the summit.

When you are in Snowdonia it is quite hard to believe that the mountains there aren't higher than the map says. When you usually climb in the Alps you would guess that they were more than twice as high (See, for instance, my photo of Crib Goch). Also, the height of Snowdon from the starting point of several routes is about the same as the height of the Wildspitze (3774m/12538 ft. second highest in Austria) over the Breslauer hut, so a Welsh climb can involve an Alpine difference of height!

I haven't seen Cadair Idris, but from what I have read it sounds like a very respectable first climb. Congratulations, Emmie, and many happy returns!

emmieuk wrote:Thanks Dan that is really kind of you

Really want to do one in the winter as it is winter climbing with snow etc that I really want to get into

Winter climbing is something special. Indeed, my first experience remains, perhaps, the most special. I followed our group up Crib Goch, Snowdonia, in a murky gloom of an exceptionally hard winter. Then, suddenly, we entered the mystery of swirling, billowing clouds that filled us with liquid oxygen, as is we were in a fantastical realm. And then we stepped above the cloudline. There are no words to adequately describe it. And so my winter climbing life began.

Nice to see someone who has escaped the melee to engage their soul in the heights. One can find it there. Enjoy. Ray.

emmieuk wrote:...people start somewhere and for a party girl who usually spends a saturday shopping or recovering from a hangover and where the only thing i have ever climbed is my stairs, I did OK.

Yep, there's always a starting point for everything and mine was on Tenerife. Hangover after too much partying I felt I had to get out of the drinking ghettos in Play de Los Americas. I aimed high. As high as one can get on Tenerife.Teide. That slog almost killed me. Well, it felt like that that day. Dehydrated, splitting headache, nausea etc. The views and the triumph felt reaching the summit was great though and I was sure a new interest was born. More mountains followed...
So what's the bottom line?
That excessive drinking can result in something good?


Congrats Emmie.

Two California peaks--

Mopah, 3530':
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... point.html

White Mountain, 14246':
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... -peak.html

Which is harder?

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:Awesome! Congratulations! Yes, soon you will be able to tackle mt. Sunflower.

Interresting to note that the highest mountain you've done is a 6,000er that's a short walk from the parking lot to the summit.

it was the warm up up for the deadly Wheeler Peak of the lost land known as new Mexico

Corax I have been to Teide too!! although I got a nice bus up there felt really dizzy once off the bus and short of breath but looking back i was at over 12,000 feet!! You did well to climb that dude. How long did it take?? If it took me 3 hrs to reach a 3,000 summit then goodness knows how long it took you to climb that!

xDoogiex wrote:

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:Awesome! Congratulations! Yes, soon you will be able to tackle mt. Sunflower.

Interresting to note that the highest mountain you've done is a 6,000er that's a short walk from the parking lot to the summit.

it was the warm up up for the deadly Wheeler Peak of the lost land known as new Mexico

Somwhow I missed Wheeler Peak and Harney Peak when I looked at your profile. Don't know about Wheeler Peak, but Harney Peak is definitely easier than the one she did even if it is higher.

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:Awesome! Congratulations! Yes, soon you will be able to tackle mt. Sunflower.

Interresting to note that the highest mountain you've done is a 6,000er that's a short walk from the parking lot to the summit.

it was the warm up up for the deadly Wheeler Peak of the lost land known as new Mexico

Somwhow I missed Wheeler Peak and Harney Peak when I looked at your profile. Don't know about Wheeler Peak, but Harney Peak is definitely easier than the one she did even if it is higher.

I don't doubt you, but we did a 4th and 5th class scramble up the North East Side of the joint. xDoogiex had to even rope up. I think thats still a little harder than the hike in the OP

Hotoven wrote:

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:

Buz Groshong wrote:

xDoogiex wrote:Awesome! Congratulations! Yes, soon you will be able to tackle mt. Sunflower.

Interresting to note that the highest mountain you've done is a 6,000er that's a short walk from the parking lot to the summit.

it was the warm up up for the deadly Wheeler Peak of the lost land known as new Mexico

Somwhow I missed Wheeler Peak and Harney Peak when I looked at your profile. Don't know about Wheeler Peak, but Harney Peak is definitely easier than the one she did even if it is higher.

I don't doubt you, but we did a 4th and 5th class scramble up the North East Side of the joint. xDoogiex had to even rope up. I think thats still a little harder than the hike in the OP

Could be. Of course there are plenty of people here that have done tougher climbs than either of you that aren't poking fun at your climbs.

Oh, and some of my best friends are highpointers, but I wouldn't want my sister to marry one!

Hotoven wrote:I don't doubt you, but we did a 4th and 5th class scramble up the North East Side of the joint. xDoogiex had to even rope up. I think thats still a little harder than the hike in the OP

Do you have pics of this? might be good to provide on the mountain page.

James_W wrote:

Hotoven wrote:I don't doubt you, but we did a 4th and 5th class scramble up the North East Side of the joint. xDoogiex had to even rope up. I think thats still a little harder than the hike in the OP

Do you have pics of this? might be good to provide on the mountain page.

I do have photos, but knoback took us up and its his route. I don't know if he wants it on the internet. I can throw some photos up, but if you want route information you can PM knoback and get the lowdown!

http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=2029

emmieuk wrote:Corax I have been to Teide too!! although I got a nice bus up there felt really dizzy once off the bus and short of breath but looking back i was at over 12,000 feet!! You did well to climb that dude. How long did it take?? If it took me 3 hrs to reach a 3,000 summit then goodness knows how long it took you to climb that!

I don't remember, but it was a full day and I was totally wasted after the hike. The girl I hiked with and I were giggling like children all the way back to the coast. The girl who drove the rented car (she didn't hike up) got really annoyed and that made us laugh even more. We were in a stupor from exhaustion and dehydration and I remember I could hardly walk the day after. The ride back is actually my strongest memory. Weird.

Great job on your first climb! I completely missed this thread until now. It's a crazy world but sure lets you know that you are alive! You have to try ice climbing next - wild fun!!!