St. Peter's Dome Climbed by Plaidman and Cold One

[Plaidman]

Short TR:

We made it to the top of St. Peter's Dome on Oct. 24th 2011. I ended up not going far enough left to find the tree and the 5.8 chimney on the 56 foot rock band. I saw a bent pin and went straight up there. Jeff Thomas thinks it is a new line on the 56 foot band of rock ( the pitch in total is 100ft. to the tree). I am going to call it Plaidman's Fally. Because I was off route and because I had a 20 foot head first fall on the pitch. A bird beak Cassin Iron Hawk piton held the fall. My line is not suggested.

 

This is a climb in my 100 Days, 100 Miles, 100 Climbs in The Columbia River Gorge. I picked the hardest climb to do first and it was all that.

See more at my blog:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/climbing/index.html

[Seamstress]

Will there be a stampede to do the Dome? Nice.

[Water]

props plaidman!! always looks so gnarly from the road. wonder if there is any interesting flora on the top, as it isn't accessible to all animals and such

[Plaidman]

It didn't seem to have much wild life even low in the cave. We saw rat turds but no rats. Thank God. Not like in the cave on The Monkey Face at Smith. Rats..... I a woke with Rats crawling on me. I was screaming Rats Rats Rats from inside my zipped up bivy sack. Yuk.

Here is a link to the summit video:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2285424850055

[Plaidman]

Will there be a stampede to do the Dome? Nice.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I think it was more luck than skill getting to the top. Very loose and big chunks of rock ready to take you out. I was careful but I think I may have really hung it out there on that one.