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Yikes! Looks like you ran through enemy fire and survived! 😳😬

Wow! This is new to me. Thanks for sharing!

Nice TR! I love reading a truthful mountain adventure. The good ones are always bipolar. Way to roll with the punches and stay humble and as positive as possible. In my current stage of life, I would have bailed long before you all. Cheers!

That place is cool! I was there a handful of years ago for Labor Day weekend and there were hundreds of toads everywhere. Alpine to forest. EVERYWHERE! So cool! can’t beat the rock either.

Some mountains call you back, failure after failure. Scouting trips for some mountains seem mandatory and part of the process. The real goal is positive progress. thanks for sharing the obsession.

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing something new to this site. It may not have been ultra gnar but what a scenic chunk of wilderness.

Good to know! I’ll keep it in mind next time I’m up there.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the photo of one of you buried in choss! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 🍄 🍄 🍄

Pics or it didn’t happen! 😏 I’ve been intrigued by this area for a while now but never made the venture. Thanks for the info!

Wow! That’s a big day! Gorgeous photos, esp. the last one of Jenny on the ridge!

Fun! It’s nice to find solitude. I am impressed at the size of the glaciers. They seem big for olympics in August.

Nice work guys. You continue to inspire….. but I guess I will cross this off the FA list. 👏👏👏👏 congrats guys!

Oh, I found my inner monkey and mostly used the trees straight up from the top cat anchor 🤪

That is the biggest Ass Spider I’ve ever seen! I feel bad for the person who has that thing crawl up their posterior! 😏🤣 seriously though, nice TR, great beta, and lovely photos. do you think that summit pyramid rock is solid enough for a technical pitch or two?

Impressive. Beautiful. Stunning. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 congrats for completing such a prestigious list, but more valuable are the experiences and the memories you now have.

My friend and I climbed this route the other day along with the 2 pitch “Top Cat” above. Overall we found the climbing fun and cruiser. It felt like the easiest multi pitch in the darrington area. The perspective gives you great views of exfoliation dome. Even though it was dirty in spots, we thought the best pitches were pitch 2 of Top Cat (photo below) …and pitch 5 of Snagglepuss. We added one last horrible adventure pitch above Top Cat to reach the top of the formation. Cool place!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 excellent story with gorgeous pics. where do we sign up for your calendar “swimming with icebergs”? 😏

Wow, excellent adventure! I think all of us who have been tromping around these peaks for years have stories like this. Sometimes it’s from youth and naivety, other times it’s from a series of unfortunate circumstances. Either way, they are powerful experiences that help us learn and grow. The older I get the less I am proud of summits and more proud of challenging myself to make good decisions in the mountains. Cheers for surviving to climb another day.

Wow! What a trip! Impressive and creative way to use your free time together. A Wolverine siting is a blessing and goes to show you how remote that place is. They hate any human presence and will go out of their way to avoid them.

Nice report! I was out in that area years ago on a backpacking trip. Exiting over pistol pass and down that ridge on a hot afternoon was still one of the more miserable but also beautiful “trail” I’ve ever been on. Kudos for the out and back.

We all experience these days. Thanks for posting anyways. I recently spent 3 days up at the Wine Spires of WA pass and basically got rained out everyday and climbed nothing. 🤷🏻‍♂️

impressive and Very cool! I’m interested in hearing more about your decent. How did you get off the top of Whitehorse and end up back at the squire creek TH?

Excellent! This valley just keeps getting better with each route and even mildly popular! I was clearing some of the trail up to the illusion wall last Thursday and there were two vehicles in the parking lot from out of state! 😮 Looks like the word is getting out! 😏

Every outing, rain or shine, is an opportunity to learn about climbing and yourself. Keep at it! I love the youthful energy. Something this site has lacked for a while. Keep bringing the stoke, dude!

Sweet photos! Thanks for sharing your adventure!