Tom_Sjolseth

Randy is absolutely correct. I took the same notch he did. The notch depicted in the Summit Routes photo was hard for me to see clearly, and now that I see the close up of the notch that Randy just posted it is definitely NOT the notch I took. Sorry for the confusion.

Storm King revision has been made sometime since 1977.

Indeed, it was me who you saw up by Park Creek Pass, Blackhawk .. it was a pleasure to meet you. As for the high traverse, I noticed Blake said he was in cliffs and such in his TR, but on the map I noticed there were no cliffs where I was intending to go (a level traverse at ~5200'). I assumed (correctly) that Blake was a bit higher up than I intended to be, so I figured it might go. It went (with no cliffs), but I got into a boscage of slide alder and devil's clubs that lasted a fair while. The first bit was misleading, as it was wide-open forest. This is what got me thinking it might go. But as soon as I crossed the first rib, it was all thicket and I had already crossed the point of no return. I didn't have the luxury of seeing the terrain on the way in, as I approached via Thunder Creek. If I had seen the terrain with my own two eyes, I wouldn't have gone that way regardless. I consider it a learning experience. I should have listened to Blake, but the thought of descending to <4000' didn't appeal to me. That evening on the way out, I found the climber's path leading out of the basin below Goode, so I followed it to Park Creek and, soon thereafter, saw the gentleman with the tent and decided to camp there since I didn't have my headlamp with me and I had nearly run out of daylight. So the moral of the story here is that there is no good way to traverse high from Park Creek Pass to the basin below Goode/Storm King unless you're packin some napalm. I think between myself and Blake, we pretty much covered that entire hillside.

more pics....

Catbirdseat .. yes, long time. Here are a couple of photos,,,

Apparently the expedition was filmed by National Geographic and will be appearing sometime in the future on the NG channel. I hope to see some photos sometime by early next week and will ask my Dad if he can post some. All I've seen thus far is a postcard of one of the peaks, and the peak depicted looks amazing.

Don Goodman, Don Beavon and team just completed a successful trip to the India Himalayas which included three first ascents of peaks around 21,000' in the Karakorum region. This was a joint venture including a team of climbers from India. I just want to say congratulations to the entire team and especially my 61 year old father, Dan Sjolseth, who introduced me to hiking/climbing at the young age of 6 years old. This is to you pops .. you deserve it!