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Name That Peak Round XXVI


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It took 8 hours from the end of the Kwoiek Cr road to a good camp a little NW of Kwoiek Peak. 2 people with lighter (ie 3 day) packs could do it in 5 hours. Although I think some of the Kwioek Cr bridges have been pulled, the creeks should be drivable with a good 4X4, making this access way faster than Log Creek.

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just leading y'all astray w/the grimface thing.

 

clue:

 

hiking trail, it's not on the way to anything,

owe it to us, we didn't climb it for a good reason

lately you can't ride a mtn bike most of the way b/c

lots of downed trees due to fire

indeed it's in red fred

way back there

a far hike

yucky

 

i actually spelled it out for you if you read the 1st letter of each line.

there may or probably may not be a good line on it. The ridge coming down on the right side of the photo would probably be a VERY fun ez moderate, the face is lots of ribs with wide cracks separated by LOTS of sand gullys, kinda like parts of silverstar. no route stood out as much fun and we made an agreement to not force something stupid (finally).

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gee didn't mean to rain on your parade ... throw you northerner's some rubble from South Cenral and you run and hide under those nice granite slabs up north.

 

her are a few clues ...

 

Half the height of Rainier, give or take a few hundred feet

old volcanic remnant

winter conditions are the best for climbing

intricate maze of gulleys

terrain of the goat

tom and bob, not necessarily in the morning

 

South of Snoqualmie

unsavory rock quality

crow and Raven Roost

krawarik & martin

survey to the west

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it all depends on the snow conditions .... one year, in Feb, it took me and 2 buddys 6 @#$% hours in fresh knee deep powder (even with snowshoes) to get from the snow park directly below to a camp refered to as "The Yeti's Lair" below the Mainmast .. on good solid pack it's about 2-1/2 hours ... roughtly about 3000 vertical in 1 mile

 

Becky's description in approach (b) is the best .. even with that there are a few tricks ... keep an eye out for some survey tape and every once in a while you may also see tree blazes and old pieces of tin can nailed to trees as well ... this area gets a fair amount of hunter traffic in the fall

 

disclaimer - I am in no way saying that the ice on the north face is worth the effort. Likewise for other potentials throughout the rest of the formation. And you won't know what you will find untill you are on it ... Some years it's been good others have been nothing but loose snow and some crappy class 4.

 

leave your skis at home ... if the snow is deep shoes are the only way to do it

 

If you have a snowmobile you can do a little recon by taking the FS road up to Raven Roost which is directly to the north acrossed the Falls creek drainage

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