| Cutthroat Peak West Ridge- NF variation Trip Report |
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| Cutthroat Peak West Ridge- NF variation   | 
| Page Type: Trip Report Location: Washington, United States, North America Date Climbed/Hiked: Aug 30, 2009 Season: Summer | Page By: tazz Created/Edited: Sep 4, 2009 / Sep 4, 2009 Object ID: 549398 Hits: 225 Loading... Page Score: 87.31% - 5 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
A great climb with silly, fun partners
Carla Shauble, Yana Radenski, Tom Sjolseth, Colleen Murphy and I Climbed Cutthroat west ridge on Sunday. Poor Tom, stuck with 4 female alpinists hahaha!! This is a beautiful fun peak but man, it has some loose stuff, especially that gully! We headed up the gully to reach the base of the first pitch to gain the ridge. Yana and I took the more solid rock ridge scramble route and the other three headed up the loose nasty yuck. All five moved quick through the pitches to gain the ridge.
The ridge is mainly a scramble but with lots of air on both sides!
There is one section you have to step into air to traverse around a horn. The exposure is puckering! Then more scrambling to get to a beley ledge on the north face.
We decided to head strait up the summit block from there. The next pitch was on kitty litter with friable holds. I had a hold crumble in my hand and fell down bellow on poor colleens hand. The last pitch was on more solid fun rock. Both pitches were maybe 5.5 or so.
Nice summit with great views. We topped out at noon and lounged about the summit for a while. I had a perfect view of our route up to the base of The Molar Tooth that I would be playing on Monday.
Then time to get down. We did a 60m rappel off the west face. The first part is free hanging and FUN!!!
This took us to a ledge we needed to climb up from to gain the W ridge again. We could have rapped from there, but our stuff that we left behind was in the other gully. Up we climbed an inventive hand line Tom rigged up with slings. Then we had to do the airy class 3-4 w ridge again. FUN!
The scrambled down to another rap station. One more full 60m rap and we are reunited with our gear.
As we arrived at the car, Moni and Fred Spicker met us there to greet us. That was cool, as i was planning to meet them at the campground a bit later. I said my good buys to my friends and I headed to the campground to catch Moni and Fred for the molar tooth the next day.
Thanks to all for a fabulous and very entertaining day!
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