Moon Goddess Arete
Couple of Words
Trying to organize our old stuff on SP. Shirley & I climbed the Moon Goddess Arête on Temple Crag over Labor Day weekend in 2004. Fun with a touch of altitude sickness...in fact, my most vivid memory of the experience was on the way down. It got dark as we were hiking down the boulder field below the start of the arêtes. We left an ice ax at the base (& some jackets) & so I ran up to retrieve our sh.tuff. I searched and searched around the small snowfield only to conclude that "we've been jacked!" as stuff was nowhere to be seen. We hiked down to camp by the lake. In the morning as I was looking up towards The Crag, it occurred to me that I was searching the wrong snow field in the dark....dumb dee dumb dumb...ran up, got our stuff and barely made the flight home.The Pic's
The beautiful Moon Goddess Arete.
An unknown party starting the next door Sun Ribbon Arete.
Shirley following somewhere below First Tower.
Shirley and the First Tower on Moon Goddess Arete.
Leading pitch 8.
Uknown party on Sun Ribbon Arete as seen from pitch 8 of Moon Goddess Arete.
Uknown party on Sun Ribbon Arete as seen from pitch 8 of Moon Goddess Arete.
Tyrolean action on Sun Ribbon next door.
Pitch 9.
Pitch 10.
Shirley following pitch 10.
Shirley following an off-route pitch 11.
Leading pitch 12.
View down onto Ibrium Tower from top of pitch 13.
Shirley topping out on pitch 14, one pitch below the top.
