Pinnacle Peak Climber's Log
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| amochka | First of Five!  Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008 | |
| Fun rock scramble up, nice rappel down. The first in a western traverse. | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2008 8:54 pm | ||
| gcap | fun and quick scramble Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2008 | |
| a nice paradise alternative for great views of the mountain. | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2008 11:16 pm | ||
| Dan Winter | South Scramble Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2004 | |
| Did this with my friend from DC on a nice sunny day. | |
| Posted May 1, 2008 1:23 am | ||
| tleaf | Fun scramble | |
| Many years ago I went with my father-in-law up Pinnacle and Plummer peaks. We had a great day and had a great workout! Sunny and warm. | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2008 5:39 pm | ||
| ecobiker | Sunny Views Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2006 | |
| Fun scramble up the warm, sun-baked rocks. Had a snack and talked about routes on Rainier. Snacked on blueberries and watched fat marmonts on the way down. | ||
| Posted Mar 3, 2008 9:02 pm | ||
| Snidely Whiplash | South Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007 | |
| Bring helmets. Definitely some exposure at times. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2007 12:15 pm | ||
| thundercloud | South Route Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2004 | |
| Nice short scramble. Great place. | |
| Posted May 25, 2007 4:35 pm | ||
| mancopa | Rainier warm up Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2005 | |
| We were scheduled to climb Rainier the next day, so we did this as a warmup. Lots of fun, and even got a sneak preview of Rainier through the clouds. A great taste of what was to come. | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2007 1:20 am | ||
| cmc56789 | Pinnacle Peak Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2006 | |
| I hiked in from Reflection Lakes on the main trail and easily found the scramble path to the top. Just enough challenge to be fun, but not enough to be stupid to do alone. Nice misty views of the surrounding Tatoosh Range, but none of Rainier. Followed this one up with Plummer Peak. | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2006 6:44 am | ||
| osatrik | OSAT Tatoosh Traverse Date Climbed: May 15, 1994 | |
| I led an OSAT climb of Pinnacle in 1994. There was still snow, and we climbed through the Pinnacle/Castle saddle before traversing the south face to the standard SW ridge route to the summit. Daughter Vanessa was on this trip, and got a real-life experience with ice axe arrest when her step gave out on the traverse of the steep snow slope. June 1996, six OSATers did the Traverse in the late spring from The Castle to Eagle, summiting them all. We camped just south of Lane Peak, which is the most enjoyable of the scrambles. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2006 4:09 pm | ||
| agreenstreet | Route Climbed: South Side Date May 21, 2002 | |
| Great views, fun climb. Combined with castle for a great day trip. | |
| Posted Apr 22, 2006 12:38 am | ||
| rialtosol | Route Climbed: South Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2005 | |
| Did Pinnacle and Plummer, great day with excelent views of Rainier. Snow was hard with a layer of ice. Crampons were helpfull on the north side approach. | |
| Posted Feb 27, 2006 4:20 am | ||
| ren | Route Climbed; Standard 3/13/05 Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2005 | |
| Combined with Plummer. Great scramble and at the foot of Rainier! | |
| Posted Feb 15, 2006 1:41 pm | ||
| Jeffrey Zickert | Route Climbed: Scramble Date Climbed: 9-4-05 | |
| The day was clear, until we hit the summit then there was nothing bout clouds. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 7:51 pm | ||
| dicey | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: August 13, 2005 | |
| part of range traverse | ||
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 1:48 pm | ||
| mntnplay | Route Climbed: South gully Date Climbed: 31 July 2005 | |
| Picture-perfect dry day. Rainier looms above you from the wonderful summit. The final 25m of the south face route seemed steep with a lot of small, loose debris. | |
| Posted Aug 3, 2005 4:50 pm | ||
| Rick Kent | Route Climbed: South Side Date Climbed: May 16, 2005 | |
| Climbed up with cp in light snow/rain and limited visiblity. Without a route description, we first traversed over to the Castle/Pinnacle saddle from the Pinnacle/Plummer saddle and then headed NW up a gully under the ridge. The rock was wet, slippery, and loose. Meltwater was running down all over the rock. We started dislodging a fair amout of rock and carefully downclimbed back out after difficulty began to exceed class 3/4. Twenty minutes later and after a short traverse we found the normal route which though still wet seemed quite easy and clean compared to what we had attempted. We bagged Plummer on the way out. Never really got any views due to limited visiblity. Can only imagine what the view of Rainier must be like from here. | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2005 5:57 pm | ||
| esugi | Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: May 28, 2005 | |
| Climbed this peak last year in low visibility. This time, we hit Plummer first and traversed over to Pinnacle. Beautiful day with great views of entire Tatoosh Range, and of course Rainier. | |
| Posted May 29, 2005 12:26 am | ||
| cp0915 | Route Climbed: South side Date Climbed: May 16, 2005 | |
| 2nd time's a charm! During a failed attempt on the last weekend of winter ('05), thwarted by high avy danger, horrible snow, low visibility and high winds, we turned around at the Pinnacle/Castle saddle. This time, in a light snowfall, on nice, reasonably consolidated snow, and in poor visibility, we managed to get to the summit via the Pinnacle Peak Trail...after trying to find our way up a nasty, loose class 3-4 gully full of exposed wet, slick rocks. Downclimbing back out of the treacherous gully, a sketchy traverse landed us in the correct gully, which we joyfully followed to the top. No views, of course. Tagged Plummer Peak afterward. | |
| Posted May 17, 2005 1:25 pm | ||
| Dundeel | Route Climbed: South side Date Climbed: 1981 | |
| Foggy at the top. My brother never showed at the summit. He told me a large cat had faced off with him at the bottom of the scramble and he retreated! | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2004 12:29 am | ||
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