Tatoosh Peaks Traverse?

[JoshK]

Do people ever do the entire traverse of the 11(?) peaks in one day or generally just the Pinnacle->Eagle group? If anybody has done all of them, do you have a trip report or something with info?

 

thanks,

-josh

[OlegV]

Talk to JustinRR - I recall he did something like this.

[TheOldHouseMan]

Did it last year but we only did 10 of them in two days. You could get all of them in a day pretty easily but we decided to take it easy and do a bivy half way through.

 

Aaron

[ncascademtns]

In 1999 we ran the traverse in 1 day from Eagle to Unicorn.

 

1. Eagle

2. Chutla

3. Wahpenayo

4. Lane

5. Denman

6. Plummer

7. Pinnacle

8. Castle

9. Foss

10. Unicorn

 

I guess to do the complete traverse would mean getting up in the morning a bit earlier. We started at 4 am and allowed at least 15 minutes on a summit. We took a half an hour nap on Foss. Made it to car just as it turned dark.

[nolanr]

Boundary Peak doesn't count?

[ncascademtns]

Boundary Peak doesn't count?

 

Yes, Boundary Peak, does count along with Tatoosh Peak. Don't know if I would count Stevens Peak though. We just chose to stop at Unicorn. Like I said, to do the whole traverse in a day would require an early early start with a full moon to shed some light on the night.

[nolanr]

Boundary Peak doesn't count?

 

Yes, Boundary Peak, does count along with Tatoosh Peak. Don't know if I would count Stevens Peak though. We just chose to stop at Unicorn. Like I said, to do the whole traverse in a day would require an early early start with a full moon to shed some light on the night.

 

I've been up Unicorn a couple times, keep thinking it would be cool to check out Boundary and/or Stevens, but I haven't got around to it. Nice job on the traverse, that sounds like a fun outing.

[chris]

I've done the traverse twice, both times from Unicorn to Eagle. Once in July 2000, and again as a ski tour last March. The summer traverse was done in a day, with an extra summit climbed south of Wahpenayo. We used two cars, left one at Longmire, and drove to the Unicorn TH at the other end. I think we started at about 7am, and made it to Longmire about a half-hour after dark. We didn't take a rope - really didn't need it - but line would have made the descent from the peak immediately west of Unicorn a little easier. The downclimbing was really loose. The traverse was mentioned in Climbing or Rock and Ice years ago as a "classic," and their description was the Unicorn-Eagle. Heading all hte way out ot Boundary would probably necessitate a bivy.

[cluck]

I did the traverse back in September 2003 and it was great fun. We did it a little differently than most people. We wanted to do a round trip so we started from Longmire and did

1. Eagle

2. Chutla

3. Wapenayo

[rest break and refill water at the lake]

4. Lane

5. Denman

6. Plummer

[nap at the saddle]

7. Pinnacle

8. Castle

[rest/water refil at muddy puddle]

9. Foss

10. Boundary

11. Unicorn

 

We intended to bag Stevens too, but we were exhausted and Stevens is a LONG way away so we just headed back out to the snow lake trailhead where we stashed bikes for the mostly downhill ride back to Longmire.

 

TRIP REPORT HERE