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No. It's Impossible.

Frosty's Clear Alien is a damn handy piece. Nice work, that's a big face! Any luck over the weekend Forrest?

THERE IS AN ENTIRE FORUM DEDICATED TO TAHOMA! You should check it out!

Mike, we all need to chip in and buy you a "Reading for Comprehension" manual.

Among all the inanity of this place, it's good to get some gems of information from time to time. Thanks Scott!

curtveld check your PMs

Well? How did it go?

Thanks for the info Scott. I second that the rock quality is generally very good in the area. I had heard rumors of a "N Ridge of Stuart"-Esque route established by Geoff Childs in the recent past. Should I assume that it's the E Ridge Integral you speak of? For anyone who's interested here is a better quality image of the SE Face of Silver Horn (very foreshortened) with our climb "The Chalice" drawn in. SE Face of Silver Horn

The couloir can be avoided entirely via 4th class gullies to climbers left of it. There are a couple options the easiest and fastest is the one furthest to the left if I recall correctly. 100' of 4th followed by sandy 3rd class to the ridge crest.

That is an excellent TR!

Hello. What condition are the Catamounts/404's in? How is the base? How much use have they seen. Thanks. Darin

That peak on the left bares an uncanny resemblance to a mini-wadd. Also looks like that tower was made out of mud.

2wd low-clearance should have no troubles getting to Trinity. Every winter there is typically enough snow on the ground so that there is a big snowpark right at the Fish Lake turnoff, leaving 24 miles to Trinity then another 4 mile approach on good trail. With a snow mobile getting into that face would be pretty darn casual.

In Peru I used both llamas and burrows to haul my gear into various camps. I never understood the use of llamas. They carry half as much, walk half as slow, require constant proding and cost twice as much! WTF! Then talk about trying to get a load on their back, that was the most dangerous part of the trip. It's always seemed like a great idea for the Pasayten or Wind Rivers but the cost is probably untenably high for people use to doing it on the cheap. It's gotta be what? at least $100 a day a guide, $50 a day an animal. So $300 to get your shit in there and then how are you going to get it back out!? Be cool to hear more first hand experiences.

Snowking via Cyclone Lake looks sweet.

Photo taken 6/18 from near Buck Creek Pass.

Take it to the bedroom you two! Scheeesch

There is no feature in the Beckey Guide named "Silver Tooth" so it's a little inconclusive. Based on Mr Laytons reply to the post Dru linked above I assume Mark did something else over on Snagtooth Ridge. Guess we'll have to wait for Mark to chime in, or is anyone else in Methow Land in the know??

??? I don't know. Maybe it's the same damn thing.

ALL YOU NEED TO SEE! I just went backpacking up yonder to Buck Creek Pass. Beautiful place! The north face is not as steep as it looks in the above photo, though still worthy in the right conditions. The face certainly looks like shit for rock climbing however the NE Arete (left edge of photo) is huge (2000' tall) easily accessed from King Lake and only looks sorta chossy. Somebody should definitely go climb it. I think Fred had dissed it but you really got to take his opinion with a grain of salt when it comes to unclimbed lines. Good luck!

That's so friggin awesome! To bad The place is now going to get overrun.

Wow, I'm so glad someone cares . Here's a topo map. Face in question is marked with a red arrow. Our approach is marked with a green arrow. If I ever went back I think I'd camp by the blue teepee. Pretty meadows down there.

Climb: Silver Horn-The Chalice Date of Climb: 6/25/2005 Trip Report: Over the weekend Justin Thibault and I wandered off to the nether-regions of the Silver Star Massif and climbed the South East face of Silver Horn. The which-face on what-horn? Exactly! Just keep walking three hours past Burgundy Spire and you should be there. We climbed 700' of splitters and corners on clean, grey granite and 100' of loose-flake, kitty-litter funk. All in all we had a great time and climb. We named our route "The Chalice" III 5.10-. Distel-Style Photo-Onslaught! Gear Notes: med rack to 4". doubles of small stoppers and 1" to 3" cams. Ice Axe. Approach Notes: Best approached via Cedar Creek. Way to much up & down from the north side.

You guys are killing it! And the summers only started...