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Trip: Prusik Peak - West Ridge Date: 8/24/2010 Trip Report: I got a 4 day permit to the Colchuck Zone this year as a consolation prize for no Enchantments Permit. What to do? My first idea was to climb Serpentine Arete on day 2, rest a day, then go up and over Aasgard with full packs, climb Prusik and hike out via Snow Creek trail on day 4. Well, as the time got near, we decided to try for a permit change to facilitate this plan... or maybe a different plan. But, when we arrived to pick up our permits... no dice. So we decided to climb Prusik on day 2, and hike back to camp. If that went quickly enough and we thought we could handle a long day 3 climb of Serpentine, well, go for it. Otherwise hike out. We ended up doing the latter, with a very nice summit day in the Enchantments yesterday. We had an easy day one, hiking in to Colchuck in about 3 hours. We retired early (7 ish) and got up at 5 am. We were moving out of camp within an hour. The path to Aasgard was 99% snow-free and took about two hours to do with fairly heavy day packs. In a couple more hours we were at Prusik Pass and scrambling to the balanced rock. Path up Aasgard: In the upper Enchantments: The objective comes into view: Prusik Peak: DS scrambling: SS standing by the balanced rock: There were four of us: JF, DS, SS, and KK, JF and DS started up first. I followed on their heels, leading pitch one. It was still fairly early and chilly, so I had to lead the first pitch in a shell jacket. This got us to the ridge and sun, and from then on out it was t-shirt weather. SS led the second pitch to just below the crux. I led the crux and set up a belay on the ledges just after the exposed traverse. SS led up the 5.6 hand crack and stopped just before the flake. I led the flake and the chimney, and, thankfully my fat-ass fit through it. DS following on the crux: Exposed moves past the crux: It was reasonably early, and a party of two caught up to us. We offered them to use our rope to rappel ahead of us, which they gratefully accepted. They had hiked in from Ingalls Creek/Crystal Creek that day! KK on the summit: We then did 5 single rope rappels down the N face and scrambled back to the balanced rock. It was around 4:30 or so, so we knew we needed to move to get back to camp. Looking down after final rap: Beautiful evening view in the upper Enchantments: We were at Aasgard again around 7 pm, and back on the trail around the lake at dusk. Descending Aasgard was a thrill none of us wanted to repeat in a day. It was very buggy on the descent. Bring DEET. View done from Aasgard. Note smoke from 8 mile fire: At this point we all agreed that one climb would be enough for this trip. Especially since it went so well. 14.5 hours camp to camp was work enough for us. :-) We hiked out today in a couple of leisurely hours and proceeded directly to town for beer and brats at Munchen Haus. Damn it was hot in town! Gear Notes: Small alpine rack. Trekking poles. Sunscreen. DEET.

don't fuck with sharks

What is right?

What's your preferred sedative for family gatherings, cocktail parties, and general social interactions, BTW? Envisioning old Uncle Ron venturing forth with a mild political joke, hearing "REGRESSIVE!" in his one good ear, and instinctively ducking just in time to dodge a flying drumstick.... :lmao: :lmao:

sicko!

thanks! but some are taken by my climbing partner, so he gets some props!

Still better than the old man righty McSame vs. McSame. Yeah, "better".

Still better than the old man righty If by better you mean "stayed in the same wars" and "spent us into oblivion", then yes, B-HO has done a "better" job. B-HO: the true "McSame"

B-HO: Now that's *CHANGE* we can believe in!

they are small, light and roll up. has anyone used them for walking around at base camp in lieu of flip flops?

NO! YOU REGRESSIVE OIL COMPANY SHILL! AL GORE SAYS IT IS A CRISIS! GET WITH THE PROGRAM! I KNOW THIS IS AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, BUT CLIMATE CHANGE IS A CRISIS! AND YOUR PATHETIC ECONOMIC PROBLEMS PALE IN COMPARISON!

and you are a jizz-gargler

true enough. That is the sensible position, but there are many more pressing issues today like the economic crisis of catastrophic proportion created by regressives and this mosque at ground 0 is a minor topic. Right wingers would much rather talk about muslims and terrorists while heading in to the mid-term elections. Typical scumbag move. BUT THE MOST PRESSING CRISIS TODAY IS THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL WARMING! WE WILL ALL DIE LIKE FROGS IN A POT! WTF! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN SO SOON?!?!?!?

hey fucktard, libertarians don't support the "war on drugs" now, go eat a bag of bloody horse cock

impressive. you've got the debating skill of a 4th grader. congratulations!

we need to climb something sometime dude :-)

maybe billcoe voted for Mondale Lick sack, J_B!

Bring who on? 76 virgins 72, 5K... 72 virgins. maybe 72 are enough for YOU...

my preference is not to fall a long distance into rocks. :-)

which confirms that your provincialism and cherry picking aren't consistent with proper methodology to draw lessons relevant to the national scale. so? is it supposed to be news that establishment Democrats have implemented regressive polices for decades now? Hi, j_b! Have you climbed anything cool recently? -- KK

Does someone have recent beta on Dragontail? Would ice axe or crampons be necessary on any part down from the summit to Colchuck lake right now?

Bring who on? 76 virgins

[quote=prole Jay's created another rigged parlor game from flawed assumptions Funny, that's what you and j_b seem to do regularly

bullshit

Did I forget to mention these very same think tanks are the architects of the policies that destroyed the real economy, relentlessly attacked governmental institution, promoted deregulation, wars of aggression, etc? One has to be seriously deluded to believe anything coming out of these propaganda outlets. You've not rebutted a single point Jay has made. You can't. This is why most refrain from entertaining anything you say with a serious argument. You're not worth it.