[TR] Liberty Bell Group - peak bagg'n 8/25/2010

[danhelmstadter]

Trip: Liberty Bell Group - peak bagg'n

 

Date: 8/25/2010

 

Trip Report:

Dan Hilden, AJScott and I climbed South and North Early Winter Spires, Lexington Tower, Concord Tower, and Liberty Bell yesterday in excellant sunny weather. We only saw a few people the whole day.

Both Dan and Aaron had climbed the area many times before, it was my first time. We left the parkinglot at the crack'o'dawn. The SouthWest Buttress on South Early Winter was our first route; Dan and Aaron switched off leading it, and we climbed on double belay. Dan led white yellow wall a 5.10+ variation on the route.

 

Dan Hilden leading the white and yellow wall 5.10+

 

Then we descended, and climbed the northwest corner of north early winter spire, rapped that and climbed lexington tower, I led a full pitch, then we simuled to the summit. We rapped and climbed concord tower in late day sun, rapped to the north. The sun was getting low, and we were running low on agua - since we each had just 2 liters for the day) but Aaron and Dan had been up Liberty Bell a bunch of times before, and we were feeling good so we went for it, scrambling a little down low, then simulclimbing the rest. The summit was purtty, with mountains silouetted in red dusk to the west.

 

Aaron

 

 

 

 

summitshot on liberty bell

 

 

[OlympicMtnBoy]

Looks like fun! Which route did you take up Lexington from NEWS?

[danhelmstadter]

we hiked around to the north side i believe, i'm not sure about the name of the route.

[JoshK]

Washington Pass - for climbing, skiing, hiking, throwing rocks at cars, whatever...just a great area all around!

[rocketparrotlet]

I've been trying to do a linkup of all 5 peaks for over a year, but I'm struggling with finding a partner. Looks amazing, nice work!