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    Oldest summit register

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by payaso:

    There was a post on here a while back about the removal of the registers. Anyone know anything about this? I've noticed some are conspicuously missing. On the top of Kangaroo Temple the other day there was a green cable with no register attached anymore. I can't see the logic behind any systematic removal, I kind of like the tradition myself. Is it sponsored removal by the park service or the freddies, or is it some puritan luddite movement to "clean" the summits?
    [Wazzup]

    Just some tree hugger/PETA type who can't stand to see a summit register that would dare to dirty the virgin landscape. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me why anyone would want to take a summit register off of a summit.

    Oldest summit register

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    The oldest one I've ever seen is on Greenwood Peak .. the first ascent summit register was placed up there by a Mazama Boy Scout troop in 1933 and it contains an account of the first ascent party who thought they were climbing Mt. Fernow. The one on Buck Mountain is the oldest summit register I've seen this summer.

    TR : Buck Mountain

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    Climbed Buck Mountain with klenke on Sunday. We left the car at 8:10AM and started up the Buck Creek Trail towards the creek crossing. We had no trouble crossing the creek on a large log jam near Beckey's "obvious slide area". We hiked up the ridge with minimal brush wacking (BW2 at most) and began our traverse towards Mt. Berge at ~5900'. We had no problem finding the ramp on the Buttress on Mt. Berge which enabled us to bypass a heavy bushwack through dense slide alder. We then traversed the boulder field and gained the saddle between Berge and Buck. Once on the saddle, we found beautiful views of Clark, Luahna, Rainier, Seven Fingered Jack, Maude, Fernow, Copper, and Bonanza Peaks. There is a calm pool of water between granite slabs that flows into a 1000'+ waterfall over the North side of Buck. This is one of the most beautiful areas I've ever seen in the cascades.

     

    We then began to climb the last 1800' to the summit of Buck. Once we gained the high point that can be seen from the saddle, we encountered three main summit areas. It was already 4PM and we didn't know which summit was the true summit. We had to figure it out soon to avoid a forced bivvy. The summit farthest away looked the tallest, but I remember hearing someone tell me that the summit that doesn't look tallest is the one to climb. So, with a little persuasion, I convinced klenke that the true summit was actually the closest one. He agreed and we began the final steps to the [true] summit. Once on top, we looked down the very precipitous NE Face of Buck down to King's Lake 3000' below. The views from the summit are very nice. The last entry in the summit register was September of 1998 by Billie Butterfield and company. The register dated all the way back to 1965 and has very few entries (no more than 30 parties total). Buck definitely doesn't get climbed much.

     

    We got back to the trail just before dark. The hike out to the car was uneventful, and we got back to the car at 10PM ... 14 hours after we left.

    W. Ridge Forbidden Pt. II

    in North Cascades

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    I would imagine that the Schrund is opened up quite a bit right now (and most probably impassable). There is a way to skirt around the Schrund on rock to the left. I don't know what kind of climbing is involved though. For the ridge proper, climbing boots is fine. I climbed it in tennis shoes and would have been fine with climbing boots. Good luck on your climb and give us a TR when you return.

    Sherpa - W. Ridge

    in Alpine Lakes

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    We didn't have time for the balanced rock. I tried to get my partner to go for it, but he wasn't sharing my motivation, especially with a Fisher Chimneys trip planned for the following day.

     

    Jens, nice work on Formidable! I might repeat that route this summer. I'll contact you for some beta soon if we decide to go for it.

    Sherpa - W. Ridge

    in Alpine Lakes

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    I haven't climbed the W. Ridge of Stuart, I took the Cascadian Couloir. We tried to climb the W. Ridge earlier this summer but got rained out. As for soloing the W. Ridge of Sherpa, it's very possible if you're comfortable with 5.5 alpine. I would say (from what I've heard) that the W. Ridge of Stuart is more difficult than the W. Ridge of Sherpa .. but again, I haven't climbed Stuart W. Ridge so perhaps someone else on the site can offer their input. There is really only one or two moves on Sherpa that are somewhat tricky, and even those moves are fairly straight-forward. The rock route on Sherpa is pretty short, and if you're soloing it, it would probably only take you about 45 minutes to an hour of climbing. Routefinding is very easy on Sherpa ... just follow the rap stations. Good luck if you go, and give us a TR when you return.

     

    [ 08-14-2002, 10:30 AM: Message edited by: MountainMan ]

    TR : Shuksan - Fisher Chimneys

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    I'm not trying to "do better than that". I'm trying to get you all off my threads. You sit here, talk jibberish all over people's threads, and think you're pretty funny. Well you aren't, you're just making yourself look like an idiot. If you want to go do something fun on the internet because your life is absolutely useless, go to www.bored.com and find something to do there. I bet you got a chapter 13 discharge didn't you?

     

    [ 08-13-2002, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: MountainMan ]

    TR : Shuksan - Fisher Chimneys

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by trask:

    Mtn. Man,

    Erik is cool and all, too...but, I am able to piss my name in the snow in 'cursive'. It's a God given talent.
    [big Grin]

     

    'don't touch me pet

    I tried the cursive bit yesterday, but I kept getting hung up on the T. I couldn't make a T without it looking like a P.

     

    OK .. one more guess... Mike?

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