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Black Giant, “Black Divide”, McDuffie

This was a long (14h50) trip to the Black Divide, home of much loose rock, reminiscent of my first Challenge in 2009.

Clyde Spires, Picture Peak, Haeckel

Pro photographers

Approaching Echo Col

More plane bits exposed

Sad glacier below Echo Col

Black Giant from Echo Col

“Black Divide” and McDuffie from Black Giant

Echo Col from Black Giant

Piute Crags through Echo Col

Memories…

Palisades from “Black Divide”

Looking back from McDuffie

Escape chute from McDuffie

Moonlight Lake and retreating storm

Not much water in Sabrina

Posted on August 20, 2013 by drdirtbagPosted in California, Sierra Challenge

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Uglies 1: South Lake to Ladder Lake; Langille 1.75
Uglies 2: Ladder Lake to Lake 11,592; Citadel, Wheel 2.79
Uglies 3: Lake 11,592 to Division Lake; Solomons, Scylla, Hansen, Reinstein 2.82
The Powells and Clyde Spires 3.34
Thompson (Harrington Couloir) 3.70
Gilbert (North Couloir) and Johnson 3.77
South Lake skiing 4.06
Trapezoid 4.14
Devil’s Crag #1 4.17
Goddard… Huxley, Warlow, Fiske 4.37
Evolution traverse (VI 5.9 or 5.6, 17h42) 4.80
Thompson Ridge 4.96
Giraud 5.11
Darwin (from Haeckel Col) 5.34
Sierra Challenge 6: “Tom Ross”, Darwin, Mendel 5.37
Columbine 5.49
SHR day 5: McGee Lakes to Elba Lake 5.59
The Hermit (failed), McGee, Peter (12h15) 6.16
Uglies 5: Let’s get out of here! 6.18
“Mount Stephen Jay Gould” 6.41
Sierra Challenge 7: Thunderbolt 6.84
Uglies 4: Finger and the Tunemah suck-vortex 7.32
12,698, “Barrett” 7.41
Temple Crag (Moon Goddess, IV 5.7) 8.40
Goethe, “Wahoo” 8.41
SHR day 4: Amphitheater Lake to McGee Lakes 8.54
Half-full Palisade Traverse 8.63
Williams 9.04
Marshall, “Keyhole Plateau” 9.13
Buck Mountain (SE chute) 9.20
Evolution “loop” (North Lake to South Lake) FKT (10h31) 9.22
Sierra Challenge 8: Alice, “Buck,” Temple Crag 9.22
Norman Clyde (Twilight Pillar, III 5.8) 9.38
“Firebird” 9.47
Keeping busy in the off season 9.47
Balcony, Disappointment, Middle Palisade 9.81
Emerson (SE Face, II 5.4) 10.23
Sierra Challenge 5: Matthes Peak 10.66
Sierra Challenge 9: The Thumb, “Ed Lane,” Birch 11.51
Henry, Emerald 11.94
Ruskin, Vennacher Needle 12.24
Humphreys (East Arete) 12.28
SHR day 3: Lake SSW of Marion to Amphitheater Lake; Marion, Observation 12.33
Gable Lakes, Four Gables SW, Basin SW 13.71
Pilot Knob Done Quickly (5h40) 13.92
Basin Mountain (E bowl) 14.03
Tinemaha, St. Jean Couloir 14.10
Taboose to Goodale, Striped, Arrow 14.21
Tehipite Dome 14.37
SHR day 6: Elba Lake to Lake Italy; Gemini, Seven Gables 14.60
“Gable Lakes Peak” 15.32
Morrow and points north 15.58
Twice the Taboose 15.73
Ickes 15.75
Ramu Point 16.17
Pyramid (12h40) 16.30
Wynne, Pinchot, “South Striped” 16.52
SHR day 2: Grouse Lake to Lake SSW of Marion; Goat, Dougherty, State 16.65
Tom (SE chute) 16.89
Merriam, Royce 17.01
Feather (North Couloir) 17.65
Various eastside skiing 18.16
Perkins, Colosseum 18.32
Spanish 18.84
Hooper, Senger 19.55
Mount Tom (north ridge) 20.07
SHR day 7: Lake Italy to Mosquito Flat; Hilgard, Gabb, Dade 20.61
Clarence King 21.03
Little Lakes, Ruby Finch, Pyramid 21.38
Abbot (Direct N. Couloir, II 5.4) 21.64
“Treasure” (E. Ridge) 21.87
Sierra Challenge 2: Morgan S, 12 Flags, Broken Finger, Adamson Point 22.12
“Ruby,” Mills 22.27
Baxter, Acrodectes 22.28
Huntington to Florence, Jackass Dike 22.95
Recess 23.12
Diamond, “Diamond North” 23.13
Indian Rock 23.21
Charlotte Dome (South Face, III 5.7) 23.33
Three Sisters and home 23.35
Charlotte-Rae camping 23.82
“Glacier Spike,” Rixford, “Falcor,” Gould 24.82
Mount Bago 25.09
Black Mountain 25.82
Kearsarge Peak 26.68
“Marmot Ridge,” “Sheldon,” “Sky Pilot,” 13,110, 13,228 27.02
SHR day 1: Onion Valley to Grouse Lake 27.75
West Vidette 27.76
South Guard, Brewer, North Guard, Farquhar, Cross (14h55) 28.03
Wheeler Crest 28.33
Crocker, “Robber Baron,” Hopkins 28.66
Izaak Walton 29.30
Ericsson Crags 2 and 3, Minster 29.63
Stanford North, Morgan North 29.80
Jordan, Genevra (15h30) 30.39
Nevahbe Ridge 30.77
Red Slate (N. Couloir) 31.13
Junction 31.87
Milestone, Midway, Table, Thunder (19h45) 32.35
Whaleback (N Ridge), Glacier Ridge (15h50) 32.66
Laurel (NE gully), Bloody, Peak 11,981, “Mendenhall” 33.13
Silver 33.30
Bass to Huntington Lake 34.19
KL day 3: Lake NE of Kern Point to Nine Lakes; Kern Point, Centennial, Triple Divide 34.99
Bloody Couloir 35.36
Northeast ridge of Williamson (~13h45) 35.38
Polychrome, Versteeg, Tyndall SW 35.53
Laurel (NE gully, 1h31 up) 36.26
Laurel (mostly East Gully, 5.2) 36.27
KL day 4: Nine Lakes to Big Arroyo; Lion Rock, Stewart, Kaweah Queen, Lawson 36.58
Barnard and Trojan 36.74
Picket Guard (13h20) 36.99
KL day 6-7: Big Arroyo out 37.65
Pyramid (or Herlihy) 37.70
Carl Heller (E. Ridge) 38.37
White done Right (West ridge, 3:59:30 up, 7:01 RT) 38.52
Black Kaweah (12h40) 38.53
Gould, Cleaver, Tunnabora 38.90
Kaweah traverse: Big to Black (19h05) 39.08
Crystal Crag (North Arete, II 5.6) 39.96
KL day 2: Crabtree Meadow to Lake NE of Kern Point; Ericsson 40.18
KL day 5: Big Arroyo; Eisen, Lippincott, Eagle Scout 40.20
Whitney (E Buttress, III 5.8) 40.52
More backpacking: Kaweah Loop 41.49
Sierra Challenge 10: Marsh, McAdie 42.62
White Mountain (west ridge) 42.88
Guyot 43.30
Lone Pine Peak (NE Ridge, 5.6) 43.40
Lone Pine Peak (N. Ridge, III 5.5, 5h42 car-to-car) 43.41
Rosco 43.52
All the right things in all the wrong places 43.73
Inyo, Keynot 43.95
Local Peak Cleanup 44.25
Joe Devel, Pickering 44.32
Langley Loop 45.28
Minor Minarets (Riegelhuth, Pridham, Starr) 48.18
Kerhlein, Ken, and Eichorn Minarets 48.43
Clyde Minaret 48.83
Michael Minaret 48.98
Volcanic Ridge traverse 48.99
Leonard, Jensen, Turner Minarets 49.43
Inyo double crossing 49.61
Sierra Challenge 4: Waller Minaret 49.69

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