9/5/2023 Route: Ridge from Middle Mountain A Posted On: 9/5/2023, By: SionaRW35 Info: Did this ridge after reading a TR. I can say it was pretty unpleasant. Lots of loose rock and bypassing the difficulties on the ridge are just as treacherous as the ridge itself. Hated this route with my entire soul. Summit register was wet, but still cool to see Gerry & Jennifer Roach in there from 2008 |
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6/25/2023 Route: Peek a Boo Gulch Posted On: 6/25/2023, By: k_fergie Info: Droz and I made what I believe to be the first known ski descent of this peak today (we scoured the usual online sources and came up blank, lmk if you or someone you know has skied this before, its kinda hard to search beta on unnamed points like this). Approach from Peek a Boo was a breeze, we were able to drive within 2 miles of the summit at about 11.6k before encountering snow. Quick boot up the road, switch to crampons and climb from 12k to the summit through snow patches in the NNE bowl. Summit register was quite wet as someone forgot to put the cap back on it. Skied back down ~1.1k through the NNE bowl on great corn, but the real prize line was a steep, skinny, jutting couloir coming down from the highpoint of the ridge the connects UN13460 and Middle Mountain. Donned crampons and reclimbed about 900k back up to this 13.1k unranked point and skied our line; we called it Ricochet. Great corn snow on sustained low 40s/high 30s with a max slope angle of 45 in the crux, go get it while the gettin's good |
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10/10/2020 Route: From Middle Mountain A Posted On: 10/13/2020, By: supranihilest Info: The ridge from Middle Mountain A to Point 13,460 A does not go - you can take it down a ways but eventually you'll be blocked by massive vertical walls and towers. We didn't stay on the ridge, instead dropping southwest down steep and loose slopes and eventually into a steep and very loose gully which dumped onto a high, flat shelf below all of the vertical cliffs on the ridge. Contouring around the cliffs to the west Whiley went farther south and up grassier slopes to 13,460 A's rocky upper slopes; I opted to just go direct, which consisted of a talus field, some grass, and then a Class 2 talus gully that opened to the upper slopes. From the upper slopes the summit is a Class 2 hike. The GPS coordinates and marker listed on the site (as well as Google's marker) are incorrect; if you go to that point the true summit will be just to the south and is obviously higher. |
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9/20/2020 Route: North Ridge Posted On: 9/20/2020, By: Flyingfish Info: The major bypass is dry along with the decent to the saddle with Prize. |
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5/22/2020 Route: From Sayres Benchmark Posted On: 5/22/2020, By: supranihilest Info: There's some snow directly off the summit of Sayres but once past the smaller secondary summit of Sayres you can stick to dry ground all the way to 13,460. The first 2/3 or so are loose scree and talus (especially the red rock near all the roads) and then there's a kind of catwalk section with good, solid rock. It's slightly exposed but goes at Class 2+ and is pretty fun. I did not descend the roads, instead going to 13,300 F, but the roads looked pretty snowy still. |
