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[TR] The Brothers - Standard Route - Standard Route 5/15/2010


Erin

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Trip: The Brothers - Standard Route - Standard Route

 

Date: 5/15/2010

 

Trip Report:

I'm cutting the BS story and I'm just giving you an accurate trip report with pictures because there isn't one report out here that helped us and we ended up in some jacked up 4th class death gully but still made it to the summit because we're bad ass like that ;)

 

Lesson learned: Do not follow Summit Post. There were other folks out there following the same beta that had the same problem. Only 30% of the people out there that day made it to the summit and we were 2 of them.

 

Anyway, here goes...

 

When you come out of the trees from the end of the trail past climbers camp it will look like this:

 

 

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You will hike straight and around the cliffs that you see on the left. You may have to cut through a set of dirt and burned trees to get to the main snow field you’ll take up. It will be obvious when you get out there just follow the snow up and to the right.

 

Once you get into the open snowfield and heading towards the peak, it will look like this. You will head towards the chute furthest to the right. However, you don’t go up the chute, you will make a right and head up the shoulder on to the little ridge.

 

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The pic below is hiking the short steeper section to the top of the ridge.

 

 

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At the top of the ridge we rested in the more open area of the snowfield. You will go above the small patch of trees you see in the pic and cut across slope to the left and go straight up the big snowfield/chute. It’s pretty much a straight shot but look at the last pic in this doc and you’ll see me standing with the rocks behind me and if you look close you can see 2 helmets to on the right side near the rocks, that’s the chute you want to take. The chute that is to the left of the tower in that pic.

 

 

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The slope you want to be on is the one I’m glissading down in the 2 pics below. Just remember the last section to the summit is the steepest section of snow you see but it’s only about 50 feet if even that and there could be some exposed rock depending how much that has melted out so it may be scramble for you.

 

 

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Made it to the summit!!!

 

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Gear Notes:

Ice Axe, Crampons, Helmet, Sit pad for 3k feet of glissading baby!

 

Approach Notes:

It says 16 miles round trip but I think it's closer to 18..not sure. It's 3 miles and 1,000 vertical to Lake Lena, 3-4 miles and 3,500 vertical to climbers camp from there. Once you get to climbers camp it's all snow right now other than a short walk in and out of an island of trees.

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Hey dude, sorry you guys didn't make the summit. No one could have known. We all followed the same trip report and all you can do is eyeball the rock and say "eh, looks doable" and hop on! I'm just glad no one was hurt at the end of the day and that we got a kick ass 3,000 foot glissade!

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Hehe, I got turned around once up there too in the summer when I missed an omitted turn of the scramble trail in the Olympics guidebook which was camouflaged by tree branches. I did some exciting ~5.2 variant up a series of gullies left of the main route. Nice job getting to the top anyways!

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Hmmmm. . . .I didn't seem to remember much trouble sniffing the way the couple of times I went up there (once summer, once winter- both successful)- but I didn't do much research (or maybe what's in the Olympics climbers guide is quite good).

 

It is a great viewpoint, nice work!

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