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Oh yeah! Those bivy photos almost make me want to go back. Almost.

That mountain doesn't mess around. My partner pulled off a hold and took a long fall, severely injuring his ribs. It took us many hours to come out the second day, limping along, followed by a trip to the ER. Glad you escaped unscathed, at least physically!

Thanks for the reminder! This fall I will need to sample these routes. I mean it!

Yeah @Matt_Alford! And I hope that wasn't your heel. Ouch. One word: Leukotape. Interesting how that traverse is getting a lot of attention this year. I remember thinking I was WAY off the beaten path on the North side of Primus as we came down to camp from Tricouni a few years back. Good thing nobody came by to ruin my impressions.

It wasn't long ago that 3 parties in 2 years would have been crazy!

A spurned proposal?

Nice! That is a lot to do in a day! But no photos of the mess to get on the toe? What, were you hurrying or something?

Actually, it was the regular East face route, which goes thru the "U gap" labeled on Page 183 of Brown CAG: http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13198907302/Fall-on-Rock-Inadequate-Belay-Washington-Cascade-Mountains Is this the route that @JonParker climbed in this TR?

(I cleaned up the duplicates of this TR, in case anyone is wondering) NICE WORK!

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen more than 2. Of course I tend to only go in the shoulder seasons.... Well done getting out, that's a fun one!

For future reference, doing the traverse in the other direction is pretty pleasant! Just don't expect a quick hitch from the Colonial CG. The tourists seem quite afraid of climbers, or maybe it is just how bad I smell after a trip.

Suffer points for going in AND out that way. Yowza! I distinctly remember not wanting to EVER go up Eiley Wiley, while we were thrashing out way down. Glad you got the summit, that is a classic!

Oh no! Glad you are OK and have lived to tell the tale.

Go @alisse!

This is the normal route that I've scrambled a few times in all seasons: https://www.summitpost.org/northwest-route/167578

check out this page for info on existing routes: https://www.summitpost.org/white-chuck-mountain/routes/p-154985 I guess I am wondering what you are talking about being the false summit. The prominent one north of the big notch?

I guess I'm with @Kameron, I thought it quite a bit of actual climbing over those towers. But I am definitely not a good rock climber!

What about Mongo Ridge?

I'm sure Pete would get a laugh out of this. He's around still. Ah, youth!

Sweet, you found my duffle! Meth is the only way I am climbing 5.9 trad these days.

That was a fantastic TR over on TAY @Kameron! I didn't know that they upgraded the board. Looks a lot better!

Makes sense. We had soft snow which made it much more reasonable. And I wasn't with my son and dog!

Very true. The approach is greatly helped with the snow, but it certainly makes some of that easy scrambling quite tricky.

Love it!