mountainsloth

Best climbing I've ever done in the bugs.

Cool idea!

Awesome! Makes me think I could pull off a productive trip to Alaska. I dig your style of time spent out there with a bit of everything.

Great read and fantastic photos! I remember those cedar trees in that valley. They are the biggest and oldest cedars I have ever seen!

Wow. Just wow!

Well getting back to the original subject, if you believe in karma, justice will be served by the climbers who stole your cams. Because of their arrogance, they will probably place them as their only gear, fall, gear pulls, broken back or worse. Justice served..

So good! Thanks for sharing! A friend and I tried a few winters ago to climb and ski hagen but got turned around by slush bridges between giant logs on steep hillside. We made 2 miles in 10 hours., camped, and turned tail the next day. That there is some rugged terrain!

Wow, all aspects of your story are dreamy. Livin' the dream!

"The biggest problem with the High Sierra is that everything is perfect for doing big days. You have easy approaches and descents, perfect weather, solid rock, lots of moderate terrain... but every time you look around the view is so awesome that you just stare at it for minutes. Then you get to the next ledge and you feel compelled to take yet another panorama with your camera. It makes it really difficult to cover all that awesome terrain at a reasonable pace. If you manage to spend less than 15 min per hour photographing its a frickin' miracle!" WHERE'S THE PICS THEN?

So did you climb the ridge to the right of the north face? More like the SW face? Sounds like one hell of an adventure but far from esthetic. Way to get out there and explore.

Hey bill, it was a pleasure meeting you up there and was glad to help out a bit. Both routes are fun and quite safe. More people should visit. 3 o'clock rock is slowly coming into the modern age. It might be nice to give folks a rundown of all the routes sporting new hardware to entice them towards these routes and away from those that could be dangerous.

I drove past the decommissioned road a week ago. It seemed quite overgrown with salmon berry and the like.

Wow! Excellent trip and photos!

Wow..... Just wow!

Maniac is manicuring his routes for the masses!? Tell us more! Nice work gentlemen. Seems like a lot more gear than I thought was needed. Thanks for your opinion.

went up the first of June. Approach and routes all snow free. Squire Creek season.... BEGIN!

Anyone been up squire creek recently? Wondering if the illusion wall is ready for climbing or if the approach goes or not yet. Thanks!

Great read as always. I will have to get back to that mtn on skis sometime in the future. How was the ski from whit pass?

My first time up to the illusion wall with the late and great rainman it was June (I think) and we brought ice axes for the slab approach. Here's to hoping it has been a light snow year for squire creek.

Nice! I was out there In January climbing princely when you two were working the roof bit. Glad to hear you sent!

Anyone checked out squire creek? Wondering when the illusion wall will be ready.

Great read. You captured a climber's inner obsession well.

Some people got it made. Way to live life to its fullest.

Awesome. Thanks for giving us regular work types something to dream about.

Can't wait to go to either one next month! Thanks for the stoke.