West Ridge Prusik shortened TR

[ryland_moore]

Climbed W. Ridge on Sunday.

Fun climb.

Approach up Snow Creek to Lake Vivian LONG. 6 hrs. TH to Lake Vivian.

The Enchantments ROCK and are beautiful.

Climbing the W. Ridge was awesome. Not too hard but had some nice exposure on EXCELLENT ROCK.

Hiking out the same day and driving back to Eugene is so SUCK! Left Lake Vivian at 3pm. Back to car at 7pm. Back to Eugene at 1:30am.

Note to self: Wait until the Colchuck Lake TH reopens, and approach Enchantments from this side, dropping a car at the Snow Creek TH. Stay in the enchantments longer than 24 hrs. and climb multiple peaks. ie. Temple Ridge Traverse or the like. All in all an excellent way to end my alpine season.

[erik]

[Squid]

Good for you Ryland- were you climbing with those kids who were moving to 11worth from the Arizona/New Mexico?

[ryland_moore]

Yup, Danelle and I headed up there. We also did W. Ridge of Forbidden this year too. She will be at Rope Up. You coming? Hope to see you soon!

[Crackbolter]

If you would have taken my advise you could have saved an hour on the approach. Approaching the slabs below the S face is much faster than hiking all the way to Prussik pass. Too bad there were inexperienced folks heeding poor advise at Vivian.

[ryland_moore]

Too bad there were inexperienced folks heeding poor advise at Vivian.

 

How did you know we talked to folks at Vivan who told us to go around Vivan to the left instead of right up to the S. Face? However, we descended under the S. Face back to our bivy!

[Squid]

I'll make a point of attending the rope-up if you're going to be there.