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Mount Langley – strangely enough, but I delayed my visit to this famous mountain. It is famous for its northeast couloir that “starts at about 11,800 ft and tops out about 13,800 ft. On average it is about 40 degree climb, but maybe more than 50 degree at the top and up the last 200 ft of the east ridge to the summit.” But that first time we did it via the ridge. Starting at Turtle Creek TH we turned towards East-Southeast Ridge around 10k mark (I might be wrong) but basically you top-off around 12400 east of the summit with some splendid views on Mount Corcoran South. From there on, following the ridge line you top off near the summit. There is a line that adjoins NE Couloir and the ridge that leads to the summit – fairly straightforward. The summit is flat with splendid Sierra views anywhere you look. Long day trip, but well worth it. We did it via NE Couloir some 6 month later.
Mount Langley – strangely enough, but I delayed my visit to this famous mountain. It is famous for its northeast couloir that “starts at about 11,800 ft and tops out about 13,800 ft. On average it is about 40 degree climb, but maybe more than 50 degree at the top and up the last 200 ft of the east ridge to the summit.” But that first time we did it via the ridge. Starting at Turtle Creek TH we turned towards East-Southeast Ridge around 10k mark (I might be wrong) but basically you top-off around 12400 east of the summit with some splendid views on Mount Corcoran South. From there on, following the ridge line you top off near the summit. There is a line that adjoins NE Couloir and the ridge that leads to the summit – fairly straightforward. The summit is flat with splendid Sierra views anywhere you look. Long day trip, but well worth it. We did it via NE Couloir some 6 month later.
Mount Langley – strangely enough, but I delayed my visit to this famous mountain. It is famous for its northeast couloir that “starts at about 11,800 ft and tops out about 13,800 ft. On average it is about 40 degree climb, but maybe more than 50 degree at the top and up the last 200 ft of the east ridge to the summit.” But that first time we did it via the ridge. Starting at Turtle Creek TH we turned towards East-Southeast Ridge around 10k mark (I might be wrong) but basically you top-off around 12400 east of the summit with some splendid views on Mount Corcoran South. From there on, following the ridge line you top off near the summit. There is a line that adjoins NE Couloir and the ridge that leads to the summit – fairly straightforward. The summit is flat with splendid Sierra views anywhere you look. Long day trip, but well worth it. We did it via NE Couloir some 6 month later.
2017 winter accent. Great year for mountaineers route - chutes are full of snow making it much easier to get to the base. IT was April and snow was still firm, just in general 2017 was a great winter year in Sierra
Merriam and Royce was an ambitious day hike w/ Lorenzo. As usual we (myself mostly) insisted on an idea that it would be great to picture it at the sunrise and so we started somewhere around 1-2AM, if not earlier (can’t remember now). But I remember clearly how we barely made it by the lake, just a few minutes before actual sunrise - this was, perhaps, the most exciting part of this entire hike! The climb itself was rather ordinary (at least as I remember it) with some moderate exposure, despite being ranked class 4 (we took the the Northeast Chute). We promptly traversed over to Royce via the saddle, summited, descended and headed back to TH.
Ps… The sunrise was perhaps the most memorable moment as the lake was only a few inches frozen and the surface was still clear of snow. The haze of distant fires casted the light in a softer spectrum (aka picture perfect setup)
2017 winter accent. Great year for mountaineers route - chutes are full of snow making it much easier to get to the base. IT was April and snow was still firm, just in general 2017 was a great winter year in Sierra
Incredible traverse from Joe Devel to Pickering to Newcomb with gorgeous sunset over the lake 12129
This was yet another crazy-long weekend, my first time hiking of the Cottonwood pass trailhead. It all started as an idea to spend long weekend up in Sierra to escape the heatwave that was about to hit SoCal.
We’ve started very late in the night and our idea was to hike in as far as we could and so we did, our first stop was near the Chicken Spring Lake. it was sort of short, just enough to catch up with altitude after the long break at the sea level and early next morning we left to establish our camp near 36.493, -118.2703. We immediately left as it was a very long day ahead of us. Our first goal was Joe Devel and it was stupidly sandy/scree awfully annoying to get to that summit, but we did. The summit itself is ok, with some views on Lake Erin and The Major General towards north, but I wouldn’t call it picturesque. So we moved further as it was amazingly awesome ridge that we had to traverse before getting to our next goal – Mt.Pickering. Couple of sharp rocks but overall very enjoyable traverse, easy and fun. The Pickering itself has limited views towards north, but you can see much of the traverse towards Newcomb and Mt Chamberlain that is towards south of it. Excited about yet another stretch of rocky catwalk that connects Pickering and Newcomb we left the former and swiftly moving soon we arrived to the Newcomb. Personally I was way faster on the ridge but when the dealing with long and stupid gradual sandy incline the guys took off leaving me and the dust
Nevertheless the most beautiful part was ahead of us as the goal was to descent from the Newcomb towards the lakes below us but before we were delighted to see the beauty of the ridge connecting Newcomb and McAdie. I’ve promised myself that I will comeback there one day, so we shall see.
Descending down the time was upon us and we’ve hit the 12129 lake just before the sunset. We were very limi
A quick hike up to the summit of the Mt Carillon. We started around 2AM in the morning and approached it via the chute right below the Lower Boy Scout Lake. Easy walk up considering a firm snow and good company.
This was my second trip to Whitney. Me and Nick took a regular route to the top. We summit it twice actually within 24 hours hoping to cross over to Russel but packs were too heavy for mountaineerâs route descent. no bueno
This was my second trip to Whitney. Me and Nick took a regular route to the top. We summit it twice actually within 24 hours hoping to cross over to Russel but packs were too heavy for mountaineer’s route descent. no bueno
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