hanman Posted October 17, 2004 Posted October 17, 2004 Climb: Chrome Dome-Monochrome Date of Climb: 10/13/2004 Trip Report: Last wednesday, TurnOne and I headed up to a nice obsure feature in the Copper Creek drainage. The peak shows as an unnamed summit to the ENE of Green Giant. Last October (03)Chris Greyell and I climbed the south face of the feature, and referred to the peak as Chrome Dome for it's inherent radiance in the sun coupled with our lack of sunglasses. According to the topo, a significant watercourse comes from the west face, and intersects with Copper Creek in the vally bottom. Needless to say, a couple hours of standard DTown jungle crawl (up to D3) ended with the location of a wonderful "Granite Sidewalk" style scramble. Although just a bit steeper than the "Sidewalk", tennis shoes sufficed to gain several hundred feet of slabby goodness to a nice rope up ledge (marked with an X on the photo). Pitches 1-3 are ~ 5.6- runout easy slabs, dikes and corners Pitch 4 is 5.8- interesting footwork Pitch 5 is 5.7- excellent flakes, cracks Pitch 6 is 5.6- small but interesting roof problem, slightly lichen-ee Overall, an enjoyable and straightforward climb on beautiful rock. Summit views include Three Fingers, Green Giant, Squire Creek Wall and pass, Jumbo Mountain, Whitehorse. Descent via South face walkoff- traverse summit ridge, downclimb some 4th class (shoes helpful) to drop into south gully, descend to lower waterfall, scoot left, and into forested rib, head down until main trail is reached. Grade III Gear Notes: Small to Medium rack- gizmos to 3", 2KB's, 2LA's, 60 M skinny cord. Brought bolt kit- didn't need any Approach Notes: Green Giant trail to Copper Creek fork- go up to the right and yonder- gloves are recommended. A smarter person would take the time to find the drainage noted on the topo. Quote
climbaround Posted October 17, 2004 Posted October 17, 2004 Sounds like a fun climb. Did you fix the pins? Quote
hanman Posted October 17, 2004 Author Posted October 17, 2004 No- we didn't fix pins- we only took a handful, and ended up doing 7 or 8 placements. Belays were either good trees or nice cracks for gear. Quote
turn_one Posted October 19, 2004 Posted October 19, 2004 Nice pics, for a postage stamp...now let's see the real ones! Quote
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