[TR] Prusik Peak- West Ridge 9/27/2004

[Dan_Petersen]

Climb: Prusik Peak-West Ridge

 

Date of Climb: 9/27/2004

 

Trip Report:

My son Alan and I climbed the West Ridge of Prusik Peak on Monday, September 27 in a marathon car-to-car. Captain Caveman makes this sound easy. It's not. We left the car at 630am or so and got back at 1230am (which doesn't qualify as a one day ascent, I suppose, but...)

 

The weather was outstanding with not a cloud in the sky, great daytime temperatures, and not a breath of wind. The Larch trees have turned golden, the lakes were largely empty, and we had the route to ourselves.

 

The lights went out at 715pm and we watched the full moon rise on the ridgeline opposite Snow Lake. The ridgeline kept the moon constantly rising (at least to our eyes) as we descended by headlamp. We ran into a guy going up from Snow Lake in the dark, and so were reassured that we were not the only crazy people out that night.

 

We stopped to brew up some soup at the outlet to Nada Lake and enjoyed the moonlight for a half hour or so. It would have been pretty easy just to conk out there and finish the walk out the next day. We probably wouldn't have felt any better if we had done it that way, though.

 

29 years since my last ascent, guess I better not expect to wait that long for the next repeat.

 

 

Approach Notes:

Perfect conditions

[sketchfest]

[LoneGeezer]

We climbed the West Ridge on Wednesday. Didn't do the one day dash though. Spent the week up there in the same perfect conditions you had, and also had the route to ourselves. Nights were cool, with the full moon and frost later in the week. Hardly saw anyone until Friday on the way out, pretty steady stream coming in Colchuck/Asgaard.