Alisse

Where's the "love" button? Thanks for the time you spent conveying all the pieces of your journey!

What's the rap beta? Pls thank you

Looks much more interesting than the NW Ridge! Thanks -- I'll have to check it out

Sounds like a great adventure! Thanks for the photo beta!

Beautiful 😍

Thanks for your TR, Christopher! Dan and I had our own alpine adventure on the NW arete of Argonaut this past weekend, approaching and climbing to the summit on Saturday, sleeping near the summit, and descending Sunday. I am definitely glad we did it this way -- it made for two relaxed days without any need for headlamps and the snow on both approach day one and post-rappels day two was great for climbing, never too firm or icy. We thought the climbing was really fun and the whole trip had good adventure factor. I felt silly wearing trail runners and carrying light mountaineering boots AND rock shoes but it worked well for me; I think if I'd been climbing a whole lot of 5.8 recently I'd probably have felt good in approach shoes/not needing a third pair of footwear. We brought a single rack and that worked for us for 5 long pitches with a tiny bit of simuling. We were able to avoid MOST of the slide alder but luckily we weren't carrying skis and it wasn't the "trap you in place" variety so the handful of minutes of it didn't feel too tuff. We both switched to rock shoes for the "slab crossing" before the snow finger. The rock was sticky and great. There was snow under the big summit block so we didn't go thirsty with our summit bivy (beautiful sunset!). The descent made us think a little bit, but there are a lot of rap stations and trees and lots of beta. We did three single rope rappels and some 4th class downclimbing that could have been avoided... Here are our pics in case they're helpful for people heading out soon or hoping to check snow conditions in the area (high-quality photos are Dan's): Snow finger (that's a false top to it) Snowfield on the descent before starting rappels: Our second single rope rappel into the gully, we walked across 4' of flat snow then butt scooted/au chevalled the moat to get to the notch, rapped off tree on other side for third rappel: The traverse from the bottom of the raps over to the south side of the Colchuck Col was BEAUTIFUL:

Thank you! Davis has been on the list...this seems like the way to do it!

Sounds like the best way to just feel older.... Anyway sitting in traffic sucks! I love how the adventure extends throughout when you bike somewhere!

@primate, revisited earlier this month and descended the gully the best way 😊

Hi, I have a friend who is training for some bike races at altitude and he's in the market for an altitude tent. This is a kind of enclosure that has a generator pack for displacing some oxygen with nitrogen. I'm not looking for just a normal camping tent. Anyone got anything or know someone with one? He doesn't make a pile of money and I'm trying to help him find a used one that's been in someone's closet for a few years ... Thanks in advance!

Sent you a private message!

What a beautiful flow. I'm glad Colfax let you pass and complete the climb without any injuries!

Yes, you do!!! And whoever is reading this has decided to continue being alive (Louis CK spinoff). Go us! I just meant that for a technical climb, they're on the very easy side of the grade spectrum.

@JasonG is that when I turn 50?

Tamarack Meadows is BEAUTIFUL. I got to spend one very rainy night there awhile back. Thanks for reminding me of these easier adventure climbs!