D-dog Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 Anyone have beta on this objective? Rumor has it there is a 3000+ foot face, maybe jumpable, but I can't even find it in Becky unless I'm just too stupid to use the index properly. Heaps 'o thanks in advance. Peace, D-d0g Quote
David_Parker Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 Took this shot of N. Face of Booker from the top of Goode last weekend. Can't tell how vertical it is but 3,000 might be be about right if you land in the basin. Pretty remote location and fairly chossy from what I could tell. The Mt. next over is back side of Buckner. Forbidden is dark triangle on far right in the distance. Your approach is either over Cascade Pass and climb south side or up Park Creek basin from Stehekin and find route up east ridge or something. I've only looked at it from Buckner and Goode, but never been on it. [ 06-27-2002, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: David Parker ] Quote
Stefan Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 Booker's face is very steep, but not vertical for the requirements of base jumping. It is very similar to Goode's northeast side in steepness. Quote
klenke Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 Here is a list (as determined by one Stephen Fry) regarding the steepest faces in Washington (for 1/10th-mile horizontal distance): 1. Mt. Index, West Face [2,150-foot drop] 2. Baring Mtn, NNE Face [2,000-foot drop] 3. Mt. Index, ENE Face [2,000-foot drop] . . 11. Booker Mtn, NE Face [1,660-foot drop] In terms of 1-mile horizontal distance: 1. Davis Peak (N. Casc.), NE Face [5,381-foot drop] 2. Whitehorse Mtn., NNE Face [5,185-foot drop] 3. Johannesburg Mtn., N Face [5,160-foot drop] . . . . 19. Booker Mtn., NE Face [4,660-foot drop] The height of the face is sort of dependent on the horizontal measuring endpoints. Still, though, Booker has quite a wall on its NE side as David's picture shows. Davis Peak listed above has one of the most impressive walls that I can remember. It's located in the N. Cascades north of the Diablo Dam. While the peak can be seen from the highway, the NE Face cannot. You have to climb Stetattle Ridge to see that. Quote
David_Parker Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 Sounds like if you switched from BASE jumping to parapenting, the whole Cascade range would open up for you! Quote
Dru Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 quote: Originally posted by David Parker: Sounds like if you switched from BASE jumping to parapenting, the whole Cascade range would open up for you! Ya but parapenting is not as EXXXXXXXTREME!!! Quote
D-dog Posted June 27, 2002 Author Posted June 27, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Dru: quote:Originally posted by David Parker: Sounds like if you switched from BASE jumping to parapenting, the whole Cascade range would open up for you! Ya but parapenting is not as EXXXXXXXTREME!!! . . . and it's all about being EXTREME, dude! Remember, it ain't worth doing if there ain't a camera there to record the coolness Peace, D-d0g Quote
Off_White Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 quote: Originally posted by David Parker: Pretty remote location and fairly chossy from what I could tell. Its not that remote if you're willing to boat it up Lk Chelan and take the shuttle, just a few miles up the park creek pass trail from the road. You're right about the choss though, I seem to recall a patch of dinner plates stacked on edge that inspired us to reconsider our objectives. The angle assessment seems accurate too, not BASE worthy. Quote
klenke Posted June 27, 2002 Posted June 27, 2002 D-dog, Look here in David Parker's Goode photo album: http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b301e9a7c4d5 The picture he posted above is #51 of 87 in the album. There is a better picture for ascertaining the verticality of the wall (#62). This picture more definitively shows that it's not vertical. We wouldn't want to have to rename the face "D-dog's Folly". [ 06-27-2002, 03:34 PM: Message edited by: klenke ] Quote
David_Parker Posted June 28, 2002 Posted June 28, 2002 Photo #62 is NOT of Booker. Photos 54 thru 63 form a complete panoramic. I have now stiched them together as a complete moving pano if anyone's interested in seeing it. I can only email it directly though. [ 06-27-2002, 05:06 PM: Message edited by: David Parker ] Quote
klenke Posted June 28, 2002 Posted June 28, 2002 The picture labeled "P1010066.jpg" is the one of Booker I was talking about. Or at least Booker is in the middle-background of that photo (with Mt. Buckner in the right-background). This is photo #62 of 87 when stepping through the album (at least when I step through it). Quote
D-dog Posted June 28, 2002 Author Posted June 28, 2002 quote: Originally posted by klenke: D-dog, Look here in David Parker's Goode photo album: http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b301e9a7c4d5 The picture he posted above is #51 of 87 in the album. There is a better picture for ascertaining the verticality of the wall (#62). This picture more definitively shows that it's not vertical. We wouldn't want to have to rename the face "D-dog's Folly". Thanks for all of your advice, gang. This one really doesn't seem like a prime BASE objective. Yeah, paragliding would be one option to get off all these "sorta almost vertical" faces, but man don't you know? That paragliding crap is dangerous! Sheesh, I'll stick to BASE - much safer. Peace, D-d0g Quote
David_Parker Posted June 28, 2002 Posted June 28, 2002 You're right, I was reffering to the jpg image # not the sequence in shutterfly. I removed some of the obvious rejects so they don't match up 1 to 1. Thanks Paul. Quote
klenke Posted June 28, 2002 Posted June 28, 2002 When I climbed Mt. Baker a couple of years back via the Easton Glacier, there was a group of paragliders trudging up the mountain with their 80-100lb paraglider packs on their backs. They were definitely going slow, but later we saw them high above gliding off of the summit to places unknown...over the hills and far away. Quote
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