corvallisclimb Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Climb: Eldorado Peak-East Ridge Date of Climb: 7/31/2004 Trip Report: So here is my trip report from Eldorado feat. Nolse, Pandora and Illini. We left PDX about 6pm on Friday and headed up north snagging Pandora along the way pulling her further away from Rainer but she cant resist an outing with Nolse so... Got the the trail head at about 12:30pm after almost hitting a drunk guy whom had pissed himself in the middle of HW 20! We all passed out and awoke to finally head out around 9. The approach was good until we broke out of the trees and the heat kicked in wich really took the life out of me, so we wernt crusin NOLSe style but non the less we go to the bivy around 4:30 right at the bottom of the east ridge. We decided to go for the summit at about 5:30 pm topping out just about 6:15 hung out there for a bit and slid on down. All in all I had a great trip except for the heat and my feet. It was a very mellow climb not technical, but a perfect first trip for me into the northern cascades. Cool group of people it was my first time out with them. I know John and Jason both tryed to capture some mountain porn but not the digitial way, so expect some more photos soon. Gear Notes: Ice axe, glacier gear. We never used our crampons. Approach Notes: long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainguy01 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Nice pics. We were the group of two day tripin' it (9.5 hours rt). Nice to put a face to NOLSe and Pandora. Sounds like you guys had a great trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim_T Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Great pics - very beautiful place! I wonder if we saw you signing in at the ranger station Friday night? We headed up Forbidden on Saturday. Great weekend to be in the north cascades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_McClain Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Cool pics and sounds like ya'll had a great trip, a bit more relaxed than that NOLSe guy typically likes it though Mtnguy01- great style doing as one day climb. I vowed never to carry overnight pack up that brutal hot boulder field ever again. By the way, did you tell Nolse you were going to carry my pack on approach to Challenger so we could do it in two day RT? Thanks Dude, my kind of climbing partner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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