[TR] North Sister- Routa Normale 6/12/2005

[Billy]

Climb: North Sister-Routa Normale

 

Date of Climb: 6/12/2005

 

Trip Report:

Climbed the South Ridge of North Sister from Pole Creek on sunday morning. Snow conditions in the Sisters are excellent right now. The West Face traverses are steep and fairly firm. There is a lot of good route options for getting to the Bowling Alley. The Bowling Alley is firm with a nice steep step with some rime stemming. The Summit Pinnacle had some light duty rime and fun climbing. The route is in fantastic shape right now and fairly challenging.

 

The NE face of Middle is still hanging in there, the WI pitch looks doable, and the routes on the rest of the East Face look awesome right now.

 

The North Face of South Sister looks just as fantastic.

 

The skiing looks great on the west side of both peaks, but you'd have to hit all the east side stuff in the morning to make it feel good.

 

Remember, North Sister is just one of those Central Oregon "dung heaps", so you better stick to Hood and play it safe.

 

Gear Notes:

Pickets, Ice Screws, a couple of wired stoppers and a couple of small tri-cams.

 

Approach Notes:

No snow on the trail.

[wayne]

Always good to hear a billy report! Hey can you do 5-6 days in the next coupla weeks?

[sweatinoutliquor]

Nice going dude, we were scoping out North on Sunday thinking that it would have been a great day to be up there! Was there any fresh snow from Saturday's stormin? Pics would be delightful!

[Billy]

(image)http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=11095

 

(image)http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=11094&sort=1&size=medium&cat=504

[Couloir]

Nice pics! You're right, it looks like VERY good climbing up there right now. Nice work!

[Chriznitch]

nice work!

out of curiosity, how many entries are in that register now?