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| andrew david | Hellish but Awesome  Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2012 | |
| Went solo and had the devil's own time keeping to the "trail" through burned areas and worse. Cooled off in some ice caves, was stalked by a horny female goat, did some wet cliff climbing repeatedly when I decided the trail was finished (it goes to the summit actually so watch very carefully for cairns), and was beat by the end, but glad I did it in hindsight. Will post a trip report very soon and that will help any future adventurers. The topo I had was of zero help. | |
| Posted Feb 17, 2013 3:11 pm | ||
| drdown | Lena Lake Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2012 | |
| Went late in the year. There was no snow left on the entire route so I ended up soloing a section to bipass the hourglass. Scrambling took me out of the fog line and onto the summit to a great view! | |
| Posted Nov 23, 2012 1:20 am | ||
| olygtx06 | summit Date Climbed: May 24, 2009 | |
| 1x | ||
| Posted Sep 22, 2012 12:54 pm | ||
| jacobsmith | Brothers Solo In A Day Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2011 | |
| Actually my second ascent, the first was about a year before and we camped at the head to the Valley of the Silent Men; the peak was so socked in that i decided to come back in better weather. Solo in a day made for a pretty exhausting trip but the glissade down was fun. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2012 12:26 pm | ||
| awilsondc | Route finding fail Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2012 | |
| You guys weren't kidding when you said route finding could be tricky! I decided on this as a day trip at the last second after deciding against an overnighter I had been planning so I didn't have as much time to research the route as I would have liked. The trail up to climber's camp was super easy. Once I got to the gully I started heading up and got to the hourglass. I had read that when in doubt, head right so that's what I did. The terrain started to get steep but I found a cairn so I figured I was on the right track. After some more class 3-low class 5 scrambling I was thinking "where the **** am I going here" but I found another cairn, and another so I though I must be doing something right. I figured I was off route but kept going until I got to a 30-40 foot rock wall (rated at 5.4 I found out after I got back, route 2A) and stopped there 100 feet or less short of the summit. I could have scrambled up relative easily as the rock was great and holds were plentiful but I was solo and have a family to support, so I called it a day and headed back down. I tried to downclimb a little and work my way back left to see if I could still find a way to summit but ran into a goat and it's kid blocking the way. Not wanting to deal with angry goats, I just headed back to the car. I will be back though, best scrambling in the Olympics in my opinion. 10 hours 15 minutes car to car. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2012 3:12 pm | ||
| chasegru | From Meadows Date Climbed: May 27, 2012 | |
| 3:00 start from the meadows. Snow starting at East Lena Fork Campground. Soft snow below the Hourglass, solid snow/ice above. On top by 6:30. | ||
| Posted May 29, 2012 11:11 pm | ||
| ExtremeD69 | Need to do again!! | |
| Did this almost 7 years ago. Amazing climb but couldn't see anything when I got to the top. Need to go back up and get the full view! | ||
| Posted Apr 17, 2012 8:00 am | ||
| Islander34 | Great Climb Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2010 | |
| Car-camped at Lena Lake trailhead. 12 hours car-to-car with great weather. Fun climb! | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2012 2:03 am | ||
| santanoni | First Failed, then Success Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2011 | |
| Did a little climb trip to the Olympics. Road closure meant I tried S. Brother the first day instead of Mt Stone, which I had planned. I fell short by about 1000-1300 ft in a true soup of a fog where I could not find the route. trying again on the final day, this time after camping at Lena lakes to get a head start, I made it. It was not the clearest day, but I actually saw my boot prints from where I went wrong three days earlier. I had climber up through an hourglass like formation, which was quite steep. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2012 12:04 pm | ||
| relic | Standard route Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1997 | |
| Date is a guess. | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2011 11:06 am | ||
| Krylon | 2006 Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2006 | |
| Did this as a one-day push. Good weather going up, but at the top you could see the black cloud approaching and knew that it would be a wet walk out. | |
| Posted Mar 25, 2011 2:51 pm | ||
| Snidely Whiplash | Dark and cloudy Date Climbed: May 22, 1988 | |
| Good views of Seattle from the summit. | |
| Posted Jan 2, 2011 1:04 pm | ||
| breauxtrahn | rainy Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2004 | |
| Got a late start because it was raining in the morning. By the time we got up the couloir it was raining again. Not super awesome. Need to go back. | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2010 7:59 pm | ||
| MachSix | Birthday Climb! Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2010 | |
| The 4th annual CC birthday climb had us climbing the Brothers. Made our camp above climbers camp in a clearing at 3700ft Saturday and enjoyed some festivities. Summited the south peak on Sunday around 10am by way of the Hourglass and a small south facing notch on the summit block. Awesome climb. More mentally challenging than physically challenging with the route finding and rock problems...lots of fun! There is a lot of bad beta out there for this climb, so make sure you are capable of good judgment and route finding. Don't trust what you read. Lots of loose rock and rockfall this time of season, so please climb prepared. WEAR A HELMET!!! We ran into two separate groups of climbers without proper gear or helmets, to which I flat out told them to turn around. This isn't an easy trail climb some seem to think it is. In hindsight, a small length of rope would have been nice to have for the final 50ft in the notch just to calm the nerves (maybe about a 5.5) if you decide to go up that way. | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2010 12:52 pm | ||
| mandrake | South Couloir Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2010 | |
| Missed a trail junction on the approach from basecamp and got a bit lost on the approach. Fortunately some difficult bushwhacking got us back on the route. Sustained 30-degree snow slopes above The Hourglass with deep moats on both sides -- glad to have a couple pickets & rope for a handline to get folks down on the descent. Ice axe, crampons, helmet all needed. Even with losing an hour per getting lost it was still a long day. Would be a much better three-day climb. Not sure this really should be in "75 Scrambles in WA"; maybe it's easier sans snow. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2010 5:39 pm | ||
| Dan Winter | Vision Quest Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006 | |
| I had some free time and did this peak on a very leisurly 3 day trip. Lessons learned. Eat more fish, suffer more, the Olympics rule! | |
| Posted May 27, 2010 8:27 pm | ||
| Snowslogger | Second time's the charm Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| The first time I tried this back in the 1980s I ended up bivying in my jacket in a tree well surrounded by snow - very cold. It was a good learning experience, though I built this up to be very hard. Came back again solo many years later and had a great time climbing up the snow couloir to the top. A very fun peak with snow. | |
| Posted Dec 29, 2009 12:10 am | ||
| tleaf | 12 hour adventure! Date Climbed: Oct 15, 2002 | |
| The 2 Steve's and I started early in the AM under headlamp light at the Lower Lena Lake trailhead and were on the summit in less than 6 hours. We enjoyed a leisurely lunch and flew back down to the car while still daylight. We saw no one. We had the mountain to ourselves! | |
| Posted Nov 28, 2009 10:29 pm | ||
| jkuresman | Loose Rock Date Climbed: Sep 12, 1992 | |
| We did it as an overnight trip. Summitted on day one and hiked out on day two. Without snow there was a lot of loose rock kicked down on us. Not much of a view as clouds blocked all but down to Hood Canal. | |
| Posted Nov 26, 2009 1:36 am | ||
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