[TR] The Tooth!- South Face 5/30/2005

[chucK]

Climb: The Tooth!-South Face

 

Date of Climb: 5/30/2005

 

Trip Report:

One more ascent of the Tooth. Woohoo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gear Notes:

Good news:

Lots of booty! Found a brand-new looking ArcTeryx schoeller type shirt (my size ) on the hike up and liberated two pieces from the South Face.

 

Bad News:

Ran into the guy who dropped the shirt on the South Face (rats!), and the two pieces were hexes .

 

The bright side:

They are positively the best size of hexes; old school Chouinard #7 with the large chord holes, and brand-new wired #2. And I think that schoeller stuff is pretty useless anyway (though it probably would've had excellent resale value).

 

Approach Notes:

No snow at all above Source Lake. Usually there is snow there in late July!!

 

Sloppy snow in the Great Scott basin to where you're just about never sure if you're gonna punch through or not. Still can finagle a reasonably long glissade right at the top.

[Dru]

Your booty is all windshirt* and no Neutrinos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* And hexes