Lone Pine Peak north ridge

[hamik]

I wouldn't normally post an update to my website on a forum, but I feel like this is my "home" forum, so it's OK. I just got off a bit of an adventure on the technical north ridge of Lone Pine Peak solo, and perhaps you guys will enjoy the read. Link to the blog's in my sig below.

[Taco]

Don't feel bad about posting an update. Unlike most forums, people here are mature.

Gotta go back and do that route. Attempted it last year when I was in a rut.

[Sam Page]

Nice trip report, hamik. It brought back some gripping memories (though I was on belay). I can relate to how tired you were on the final tower.

[mve]

Cool adventure! Thanks for sharing.

[hamik]

Heh, Taco, I think I can find some stuff in the Off Topic forum which speaks to the contrary... 8) Let me know when you do the ridge! I'm curious about the layback and off-width pitches above the second notch, since I didn't do them. I wonder if that way is easier in winter when there is more snow?

Sam, I just read your post about the GT climbers' ranch... while for most of my life I would have been equally appalled at those eating habits, lately I've started to wonder if I don't have a weak stomach--I've had serious gastrointestinal infections virtually every time I've left the country--due to the sterile way I prepare and eat food. Maybe those pigs have robust immune systems from fishing food outta the trash, eh? =)

mve, thanks! This time the TR was less an inclination to share an experience and more a need to process what just happened by typing it out.

[Taco]

Heh, Taco, I think I can find some stuff in the Off Topic forum which speaks to the contrary... 8) Let me know when you do the ridge! I'm curious about the layback and off-width pitches above the second notch, since I didn't do them. I wonder if that way is easier in winter when there is more snow?

Sam, I just read your post about the GT climbers' ranch... while for most of my life I would have been equally appalled at those eating habits, lately I've started to wonder if I don't have a weak stomach--I've had serious gastrointestinal infections virtually every time I've left the country--due to the sterile way I prepare and eat food. Maybe those pigs have robust immune systems from fishing food outta the trash, eh? =)

mve, thanks! This time the TR was less an inclination to share an experience and more a need to process what just happened by typing it out.

That's what off topic is for!

I'm going sometime this summer, so snow won't be an issue or aide. Maybe a group get together kinda thing.

[Sam Page]

I'm curious about the layback and off-width pitches above the second notch, since I didn't do them. I wonder if that way is easier in winter when there is more snow?

When I did it in May, there was no snow on the steep sections of the crux tower. I remember surprisingly difficult and somewhat sustained 5.7 (felt like 5.8 with heavy packs). I don't recall an offwidth, though.

And yeah, start working on strengthening your bowels! Dumpster diving, perhaps?

[Dave G]

Nice work, Hamik! I've been wanting to climb that route for awhile now. Don't know that I'd have the cojones to do it solo, though.