20080408 Telegraph Peak NWF - Easy Way

Post by **Taco** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:52 pm

Headed out after work, still tired from work at 4 in the morning and Baldy the other day. Went up Thunder, to the saddle between Tele and Thunder. Went across the face to below the good stuff, and climbed up this route.

http://www.summitpost.org/route/395257/ ... 4-AI3.html

Brought a light alpine rack in case I had to bail. Last ascent of this face made me wish I did the same then. Encountered good hard ice further up the route. Beautiful conditions and a great day out. It was also a cold day, which helped, as there was ZERO rockfall!

Windy at the saddle...

Moving across

On the route

I stopped taking pics from here to the summit, but I did take video, which I will upload after I finally eat something substantial.

Food at the summit

Looking out and down

Summit

Mandatory summit pelvic thrust picture

Headed down the broad and easy West Face (not the technical Southwest Face), back up Thunder, and then down the westmost ski run to Miner's Bowl, down the road to Manker Canyon (road), to the Ski Lift lot, then down to Wanker Flats parking area, and home. Very light precipitation at times, with whiteout coming and going on the route.

West Face

This was much better than my previous ascent of this route in late December, 2006.

Video later...

Post by **HikeUp** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:59 pm

Dude!

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:09 pm

awesome pictures.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:25 pm

BTW, this route > Baldy Bowl

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:30 am

how would you compare the difficulty of this route to the bowl???? about the same? more technical? steeper???

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:15 am

hvydrt wrote:awesome pictures.

Indeed, but the pelvic thrust was too much for this here family forum.

406 · Post by **406** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:50 pm

Nice!

Post by **Taco** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:21 pm

hvydrt wrote:how would you compare the difficulty of this route to the bowl???? about the same? more technical? steeper???

Steeper overall, steeper uptop, actual alpine ice up top, mixed climbing around M3 or so and probably lower. Much more fun, in my opinion. It also goes by faster, and keeps you thinking more. It is a more mentally engaging route, where the Bowl is more of a stairmaster.

Sashimi · Post by **Sashimi** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:24 pm

as usual Taco is da man. thanks for taking the sweet pics.

Post by **Taco** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:42 pm

You bet, Brotha. When can I drag you up there? Next saturday? 8)

Post by **Taco** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:16 am

Video up: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2568&hl=en