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Trip: Mt. Olympus - Blue Glacier Trip Date: 07/22/2024 Trip Report: Report attached as a PDF. 2024-07-22 Wait, I Thought the Olympics Were in Paris_.pdf Gear Notes: Two half ropes (one per team for the glacier, combined for the rock). Approach Notes: Three different GPS watches found this to be more like 21 mi each direction, not 17.5 mi.

The Rooster Comb was definitely one of the coolest features I've ever seen, let alone actually get to be on... really improbable movement but the route just kept delivering! Overall I thought some of the loosest blocks we encountered on all of Mongo were on the RC, as most of the ridge actually had decent and deeply memorable rock quality. There are a couple of gorgeous gnarly gendarmes around the RC for future Picketeers to explore, most of which will require serious bouldering abilities to be taken on. In the photo below, you can see that the section between the RC and the Pole also has a labyrinth of routes that lead up to the gendarmes below the pole, there is a ton of exploratory climbing to be done there. Now, unclimbed gendarmes plus the toe.... pretty epic... can't blame anyone for developing that kind of fetish 😜 On the topic of climbing without knocking huge blocks, I'll also say I think some of the rock on Sawtooth Ridge in the Olympics was consistently looser than Mongo, especially since so many of our placements there felt totally psychological (Mo actually removed one of my stoppers by prying a sheet of basalt off with the pick of his ice axe...), whereas we actually had awesome gear (even if fairly runout) on the hard climbing of Mongo. In both cases I've been blown away by Wayne's choss wizardry and ability to do all that, onsight, without making the mountain crumble!! What an awesome and continuously inspiring standard to have set for Washington climbing.