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| scgrant | Lake Blanche to South Ridge  Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2012 | |
| Climbed Sundial via the standard class 3 route to the South ridge. Great views in all directions. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2012 8:35 pm | ||
| utahjimk | first time ... Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2012 | |
| With a group of Wasatch Mountain Clubbers (standard route). | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2012 5:59 pm | ||
| Mooner | Up I Go | |
| 6/16/12- Climbed the "Eleventh Hour" route and continued to the summit. Climb was done with The Utah Outsiders ( Matt J., Matt L., Glenn, Janey, Scott C., Jeremy F. and myself). It was a fine day to be in the mountains. The Route was superb 5 stars! | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2012 11:55 pm | ||
| l3orecl | Checkmate Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2011 | |
| Got to Lake Blanch in little over an hour. Made it to the Peak in another 1-1/2hr or so. Instead of going on the way explained on the page, ascended up a valley just to the west then cutting east to the ridge. Seemed easier than hiking through the boulder fields. Perfect weather. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2011 2:51 pm | ||
| David Mortensen | Sundial Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2011 | |
| Lake Blanche is really pretty. The ridge near the summit was a lot of fun. Beautiful scenery the whole way to the top. I really enjoyed this peak. | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2011 12:37 am | ||
| Wisemtn | Lake Blanche Route Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2010 | |
| Climbed with Caroline, John, Kathleen, and Dustin. Had trouble locating the trail after the lake and ended up scrambling up the rocks to the north face and hiked the valley to the saddle. The knife ridge was an adrenaline boost for us acrophobia types. Summit at 4:30 pm. | |
| Posted Sep 12, 2010 1:27 pm | ||
| jamesmc2 | Eleventh Hour | |
| Its getting late. Nice adventurous 5.8 | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2010 2:08 am | ||
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| x4wheeling | Re: The perfect ridge scramble. | |
| AMEN! | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2010 11:58 pm | ||
| x4wheeling | Crazy Man Couloir Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2010 | |
| Like vanman798 suggested. I did the South Summit of Sundial via the Crazy Man Couloir, only difference is that there is very little snow now and the entire route is loose, wet, or otherwise dirty. BUT it was a very fun scramble and only required careful hand/foot placement and good judgement. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2010 11:57 pm | ||
| vanman798 | 11th Hour Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2012 | |
| June 8, 2012, Tristan Higbee and I climbed Sundial Peak via the 11th Hour route. Tristan lead the first 3 pitches and I lead the last one. We meet at 10:00 am at the Lake Blanche trailhead, and it took as about 1.5 hours to reach the lake. By noon we were at the base of the route. It took us 3.5 hours to do the four pitches, so we arrived on top at around 4 pm. We scrambled up to the highest point of the North Peak, and then rapped down the crazy man couloir area (2-raps). We were back at the route starting point by 5:40 pm, and back to the cars by 7:40 pm (9.5 hours total trip time). ***************************************** May 31, 2010 - Via The Crazy Man Couloir. Decided to see if we could find a route up between the two peaks. We did find a sort of psuedo couloir, on the east side, that lead up between the two peaks, which we nick named "The Crazy Man Couloir" (cause it had several tricky spots and some very steep spots). Try it, you might like it!!! | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2010 1:29 pm | ||
| Pfeiffer75 | Standard route | |
| Climbed in October 2009 with the help of byates | |
| Posted May 10, 2010 12:21 pm | ||
| builttospill | SW of Corner Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2006 | |
| Back before I knew any better I tried to solo the route SW of Corner (~5.7, 4 pitches) and probably came closer than I'd like to admit to killing myself. I traversed right to easier ground (but looser!) and got off the thing. A year later I went back and rope-soloed the route, which was a slow and laborious process, but much safer. I'd like to get back to do Eleventh Hour one of these days. | |
| Posted Feb 5, 2010 3:46 am | ||
| marauders | Route Climbed: North Face, Eleventh Hour (5.8) Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2009 | |
| What a great climb in stunningly beautiful terrain! It began raining on the last pitch, but dried up just enough to finish the climb. This is one of my favorite places in the Wasatch. | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2009 3:12 am | ||
| byates | Mutiple routes and climbs Date Climbed: Sep 22, 1981 | |
| This was my first semi technical Peak I climbed in the Wasatch, Did it with a WMC group when I was 18. Many returns since. | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2008 1:57 pm | ||
| renogurt | 2:15 from TH Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008 | |
| Almost got mauled by a moose. Superb scrambling at the end. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2008 1:18 am | ||
| mcirque | Via Lake Blanche / Western Slopes Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2007 | |
| Also bagged the unknown lesser peak to the north | ||
| Posted Aug 7, 2008 1:02 am | ||
| pbogen | Via Lake Blanche / Western Slopes Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2008 | |
| A great scramble at the end... and a superb peak to do in the early summer when the bigger and better peaks are still snow covered. The area above lake Blanche is gorgeous and seldom visited. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2008 12:54 pm | ||
| Lubos | once in a lifetime Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2007 | |
| It is basically a fun climb on a long summer day, a lot of loose rock too | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2007 7:26 pm | ||
| Matthew Van Horn | Thrice Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2007 | |
| 07/26/2007 with Justin A. (Gutloaf). We Went up by the West side of the ridge and descended to the lake via the East side. 09/30/2006 last day of September with Justin A. I camped the night before near Lilian, then met my man Gutloaf as he zoomed up the trail in the dark. 07/04/2006 Independence Day with Justin A. and Travis Atwood (Tatwood). | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2007 2:45 pm | ||
| Moogie737 | From Lake Blanche to the Hanging Canyon Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2008 | |
| 7-3-07 With Lana leading Kim and me, we attained the summit in just over 3 hours from the S-curve TH. A fine climb with some interesting ridge scrambling the final 30 minutes. We topped off this adventure by scrambling to the Cottonwood Ridge, then heading east to capture Monte Cristo & Superior before coming back down to Lake Blanche and out. Excellent ridge stuff. 3rd or 4th time at the summit today (7-1-08) with Lana & Brent. Did the same thing as above and enjoyed a nice snow descent back to Lake Blanche. 5th summit 9-8-09 Solo after Blanche Peak with Dave. #6 3-23-10 Solo, attained Sundial saddle from the east side via a steep chute. The ridge to the summit was spooky and dicey because of snow, ice and cornices. #7 6-30-12 via Hanging Canyon up and west route down. Prelude to Blanche Peak on the C. Ridge before returning. Wunderbar! | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2007 7:42 pm | ||
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