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| GCutforth | Northeast Face - Spectacular Route | |
| An amazing line up an even more impressive peak. Full value for the grade. Be wary of the easy chimney... | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2007 2:01 am | ||
| Ice Man Jerry Van | The classic east face in The Fifty crowed routs of North America  Date Climbed: Aug 8, 1986 | |
| Most of the routes in the Cirque are wonderful and this one is a clssic 5.8 | |
| Posted Nov 12, 2007 9:33 pm | ||
| AJones | Awesome climb! Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006 | |
| A classic climb! We summited at about 12:30 avoiding a thunder storm by about 1/2 hour. I especially loved the upper pitches. See my trip report, if interested. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2007 6:32 pm | ||
| climbhighnow | sweet Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2007 | |
| fun climbs: S. Buttress w/K crack , and the lo;wer left side cracks. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2007 6:29 pm | ||
| gato | NE Face Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2007 | |
| Another of the Classics on a cloudless, beautiful day. Wish I had remembered the camera...d'oh! Excellent rock and elegant line. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 11:45 pm | ||
| b. | NE Face Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2007 | |
| I wasn't feeling it that morning, but we got 'er done anyway. This time we did the last pitch to the NE summit. Once again we had this route to ourselves on a cloudless day. Then we watched crowds lined up on it for the rest of our time in the Cirque. Strange. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 6:50 pm | ||
| Andinistaloco | S> buttress | |
| One of the best climbs at that grade that I've done. Killer views of Wolf's head, awesome weather, no mosquitos, no rain, good partner. What more do you want? | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2007 12:40 pm | ||
| SawtoothSean | Impressive Towers Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2006 | |
| Attempted to do the climb from the trailhead in one day. Rapped off of Pitch 5- ran out of time. The area was very crowded with hikers, climbers, fishermen. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2006 4:07 pm | ||
| rockrat2 | NE | |
| Awesome climb, great rock. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2006 3:17 am | ||
| spenceinboulder | Scooted up the E. Face between rain storms. Date Climbed: Aug 12, 1997 | |
| Beautiful Peak. Great view. Solid rock. | |
| Posted May 8, 2006 11:58 pm | ||
| markmay | Route Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: July 24 2003 | |
| Great Climb!! I can't believe it was only 3 pitches! | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2005 9:31 pm | ||
| asmrz | Route Climbed: South Buttress Date Climbed: August 16, 2005 | |
| Penelope May and I climbed the South Buttress of Pingora to the small ledge below the "K" Cracks. While I was climbing the last 40-60 feet toward the base of the cracks, the weather changed from mostly clear to totally sacked in and within minutes, a huge hail storm developed. The rain and hail was so strong, we really could not move to sort our ropes and to attempt to rap. We removed all our (metal) hardware, placed it on the ledge, downclimbed about 30 feet to another small ledge and waited. We spent 3 hours on that ledge while 5 inches of hail fell. Penelope was the victim of (residual) lightening hit, which hit her hip and I felt couple currents go through my legs. It was extremely scary situation. After the storm, we just rapped the line as quickly as we could. Didn't go to the summit but that was not that important at the moment. | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2005 4:13 pm | ||
| Cookie Addict | Route Climbed: North East Face Date Climbed: August 13, 2002 | |
| An epic nine day trip!! We got caught high on the route by a snowstorm and high winds, had to rescue a group below us and were unable to find camp that night. Bivied on a ledge in 20 degree weather - four guys and two space blankets. | |
| Posted Oct 14, 2005 4:58 am | ||
| iceisnice | Route Climbed: NE Buttress Date Climbed: July '05 | |
| Stellar route. One of the best i've ever done. Can't get much better rock than that. | |
| Posted Oct 3, 2005 10:20 pm | ||
| millerw05 | Route Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: August, 1992 | |
| Great route but descended after a pitch when a lightening storm rolled in. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2005 2:31 pm | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: NE Face Date Climbed: Sept. 4, 2005 | |
| Got out of Portland 4pm Friday after work. Got to trailhead Saturday at noon. Got to Cirque of Towers at 4pm. Got up at 8am Sunday and climbed NE Face on Pingora. Got up 7am Monday. Got to trailhead at noon. Got to Portland 13 hrs later ~2am. Got to work (to post on SP) 9am Tuesday. Nice climb. Busy. E. Ridge on Wolfs Head was more fun IMHO. Brutus' topo is dead on accurate; Kelsey's topo is off. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2005 4:24 pm | ||
| dhrms | Route Climbed: South Buttress Date Climbed: July 14, 2005 | |
| Excellent climb, the last pitch was the best crack I have ever climbed!!!! | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2005 9:34 am | ||
| dunsum | Route Climbed: many Date Climbed: June '92 | |
| Northeast Face, 6/29/92, 8/24/00 South Buttress by many different routes, 7/23/94 East Face - Left Cracks, 8/18/96 Southwest Face, Right Side, 8/21/96 East Ledges, 8/31/06, solo | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2005 4:50 am | ||
| poorboy44 | Route Climbed: the 50 classic one Date Climbed: July 2002 | |
| 5 hours. Fun route, but a 50 classic? | |
| Posted Nov 2, 2004 5:54 pm | ||
| forkliftdaddy | Route Climbed: NE Face Date Climbed: August, 2003 | |
| Got there before first light and had to wait for light to climb by. Did the routefinding for several parties, including a nice guy from Alaska and his girlfriend. Lots of wind, and so we ended up with vertigo on the higher pitches. Great fun. Super classic. | ||
| Posted Aug 16, 2004 2:24 pm | ||
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