Big wall?

[salbrecher]

I flew from Vancouver to kamloops this morning and saw a pretty big and steep looking East facing wall (sort of like a mini chief) with a big treed ledge running accross at about half height. It was about 2-10km NNE of Judge Howay. Anyone know if this thing has any routes or if it would even be worth the grunt to get to it?

[Dru]

if its this one

 

John Black and Chris Rowe are steadily progressing on a 5.9 A3 that is getting hear to topping out. I will have more info when I go back into Winslow Cr in a few weeks.

[salbrecher]

Yea that looks like the one! How high is the steep part of the wall above the treed ramp? And is that a logging road that parallels the creek to right below it?

Edited April 12, 2004 by salbrecher

[Dru]

its about 400m high above the ramp at the highest pt, overhanging at the bottom. pretty wet from snowmelt in the spring. the winslow creek logging road is on the other side of the river but you can bushwack along the bank from the nearest bridge (it took me about 2 hrs in cork boots) to the base of the ramp. the only problem is the road only goes to the logging camp, so youd have to walk from the camp and you have to canoe, heli or float plane into the camp.... (Chris Rowe works out of the camp a lot the lucky bastard)

 

There's a slightly smaller "Sherrifs Badge" type wall west of this up the Stave facing across to the Judge which is, I believe, unclimbed....

 

After evaluating both of these I decided there are bigger unclimbed walls with easier access The biggest prizes in the area are actually north face of JH itself and west face of Stonerabbit though

[salbrecher]

there's a big snow couliar on the NF of JH. It goes right to the col between the 2 summits? Looked pretty simple from the plane.

[Dru]

There's a 35 pitch 5.8 on the N face of the main peak.....

[Dru]