johnkelley Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Trip: Beneign Peak - West Face Date: 12/20/2010 Trip Report: The Weast Face of Beneign Peak (3,300ft, AI4, WI4) It took Ben and I about 36 hrs from a high camp round trip. Thousands of feet of AI3, WI3. Gear Notes: Ten screws and a small rock rack Approach Notes: Peters creek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Larry Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 very sweet climb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicMtnBoy Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Nice, is this your earlier unfinished line or another one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnkelley Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 Two different lines about a half mile apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spionin Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) looks awesome! wow... thousands of feet... of WI... ... 36 hrs in single push? Edited December 22, 2010 by spionin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Frieh Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Nice work John. Great to see someone took advantage of that high pressure you guys had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnkelley Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepires Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 awesome looking place. Could you please describe where this peak is? How do you get into there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielHarro Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Thanks for the TR John! Nice stoke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfinley Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Nice! What John isn't mentioning is that temps in town have hovered around 0 for about a week! Brrr! Where is this in reference to Malignant Gully? genepires -- this is a link to the Benign peak area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeoman Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 oh man, that looks so friggen sweet. nice job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubler Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Thanks for the fix - very nice! How much time approach vs. climb vs. descent throughout the 36 hours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnkelley Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 It's to the right. The top is visible on the far right hand side of your photo. What looks like the bottom right hand side of Beneign Peak in your pic is the other side of Rumble. The line in the other thread is clearly visible to the left of Malignant. Alot more snow in your photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfinley Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Yeah - photo was taken last April; there was a lot of snow in that valley last spring. The above was taken from somewhere on Raina --- here's a better one taken from somewhere on Peeking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnkelley Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Finley, you should go get the 2nd ascent. It's good right now. The crux is the second pitch. Ben's right in the middle of it in the last photo. After that it's a 3,000ft grade 3 cruise to the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Geez, that is just great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonG Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Has that prominent ramp/gully been skied? Is this the Malignant gully you are referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfinley Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Has that prominent ramp/gully been skied? Is this the Malignant gully you are referring to? Yes - the obvious ramp is Malignant Gully. It's probably been skied. Lots of big descents back there if you take the time to get to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnkelley Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 I doubt it's been skied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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